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4 Cauraatrr Nruia f (SEMMVEEKLY.) % JUANITA WYL1E Editor PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT: Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., by The *< Lancaster Publishing Company, f( successors to The Ledger, established 1852; The Review, e established 1878; The Enter- v prise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter 1' Oct. 7, 1905, at ttie postofflce a at Lancaster, S. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: |e (In Advance.) C-le Year $1.50 11 Bix Months . 78c ' C ? ; ; c weatner iorecast lor souin caro- g lina: Partly cloudy Friday and Saturday. > w FRIDAY, APRIL 2?. I?!.">. " o What of the proposed night t] school? The need is urgent but the h volunteer teachers are few. p + : f The public library is an institution we cannot afford to be without. Then why not help maintain it? ' n + , ? There are fewer loaded wagons' jj going out of town just now than we w have known for many a year. I p +. ! n With Thaw and Frank permanent-1 * ly disposed of. T. It. and the war in - j. Europe promise to share front page j 8j honors for awhile. in * I \l The paving of Main street will w soon begin, and when the work is ai finished this principal thoroughfare , fc will do us great credit. Let the good work go on. j ^ -III The nearer the planting season ! gi approaches the higher the price of 111 cotton goes. Don't be fooled, Mr. qi Farmer. Remember the fable of the , s( spider and the fly. J pi + j ~ I tl uuvcruur m.iiiimiK ls* nui uuuku ^ President Wilson in His indifference ; u, to what the professional politicians ! e< may think of his methods In dis- w charging his duties. 1)1 4 It will be well to remember that ! , I cl the longer the European war continues the probability is that the price of foodstuffs will go up and the price of cotton will go down. 4 Here's hoping tHat the efforts of ^ the Chamber of Commerce to clean up Lancaster will meet with greater co-operation than was given theiT.'~ campaign inaugurated by the Civic League. ' ? + ! It will be well for the farmers to * " lay in a supply of peas for spring planting. By sowing peas this js spring and summer the farmer will save a fertilizer bill for the follow- i' ing year. 111 In the removal from office of u' Sheriff Huckabee of Kershaw countv, ' t r Governor Manning shows unmistakably that lie will not stand for non- n< - enforcement of the law. But after m all he is only standing true to His ai ampaign promises. + Pardon us for being so insistent, ' 'n Mr. Cotton Farmer, as to the quan- 111 tity of the staple you plant. Let hog and hominy be your first consideration. even [{ vei\on should go to 2') at cents. It will be a losing game to plant cotton at that price if you have to go on a credit to buy what you ^ can raise on the farm. I Says The Gaffney Ledger: "When the price of cotton soars around ten J" cents you can depend upon the cot- " tontot getting busy. We wish we could impress upon each and every man the necessity of raising his own supplies and then resorting to cotton as a money crop but it begins to ls look like the case is hopeless with ,, is many." C\ The province of Sascatchewan, in the Dominion of Canada, has had a representative in this state inquiring ^ into the workings of that great ^ moral institution, (?) the "Dispen- 81 sary." If such an Institution is established and conducted in Canada 11 as it was in South Carolina, it will " put dollars into the pockets of poli- i ticfans and Increase drunkenness. ^ An a solution of the whiskey ques- I lion it was a monumental failure. I* The accidental killing of himself by a fourteen-year-old lad in Anderson Tuesday should be a lesson to i parents not to leave guns and pistols r around carelessly where children may get hold of them. This bright little boy, the only child of his pa- 8 rents, picked up his father's auto- ( malic pistol as he would have pick- [ i ed up a toy, with the result that his ( ; young life was taken and the light t t of his fond parents' lives was made perpetual darkness. P'Th ? terrible s 'trag<dy Is likely to iicppcn at any ulmn If parents are not careful. ' ' * ^KftmXiaCtC v^n9SCiC40tCi0&ICCr!-! r IBELIEVES IX FOREIGN MIS- I8 ION 8. * "A? rl-!-!->!-!-X-^!rlrirIrlriTlrl-lrlrl-nrirlt A great many people, many of lein members of some Christian ect, say that they do not believe in sreign missions. To all such we ommeud to their consideration the tews expressed by Woodrov Wilson, 'resident of the United States, in ddresstng the Potomoc I'resbyery in Washington Wednesday ight. Warren II. Stuart, a returnd missionary from China, had first ddressed the body, presenting the laims of that great nation on the hristiau people of the United tates. President Wilson, in emphasizing hat the missionary had said, spoke s follows: "When I think of great bodies of pinion which sustain the affairs of lie world, it seems to me that the eart and nucleus of them is the rinciple of Christianity and that, lierefore. the conservation of that reat fountain of all that is just and ighteous is one of the most impurint things conceivable, infinitely lore important than the things hicli those of us do who attempt i take some part in administering le external affairs of the world, and lien I hear men like Mr. Stuart leading for the means to introduce lis great influence into a part of the orld now for the first time feeling s connection with the rest of manind, now first wakening to the poshiltties of the power that lies latent i it, I wonder if it is possible that te imaginations of Christian people ill fail to take fire. "Why, tills is the most amazing nd inspiring vision that can be of red you, this vision of that great eeping nation suddenly cried wake by the voice of Christ. Could lere be anything more tremendous lan that? And could there be any renter contribution of the future omentous of the moral forces of le world than could be made by uickening this force, which is being >t afoot in China? China is at resent inchoate; as a nation it is a mgeries of parts in each of which lore is energy but which are unwind in any essential and active nit, and just as soon as its unity mies its power will come in the orld. Should we not. see that the irts are fruitified by the teachings [ Christ?" Those who are indifferent to the aims of the heathen nations are ot actuated by bad motives. They iu isaui ,1111. i nr i-result;iii cpressed his indebtedness for his irlv enlightenment on the subject > his father, the late Dr. Joseph K. 'ilson, a Presbyterian minister. -T? ? THK PRESIDENT'S GREAT -ISPEECH. W We are publishing in full in this sue the address of President Wil?n, delivered Tuesday to the nietu?rs of the Associated Press. Every lie of it should be read. He urges [ion the people of the United States le observance of the strictest neuality in regard to the great war )\v raging in Europe. He points it the fact that "3,000 miles of cool id silent ocean" separate us from ,e contending nations and that it likely that some day these nations, their cooler moments, will be ruing to this grtfril nation for unsel and advice. "Our whole duty, for the present, any rate, is summed up in this atter, 'America first,' " said he. at not for America's benefit alone, it "in order that America may be to be Europe's friend when the ly of tested friendship conies. Tin st of friendship is not now synithy with the one side or the other, n getting ready to help both sides hen the strugglo is over. "The basis of neutrality, gentleen. is not indifference; it is not lf-interest. The basis of neutrality sympathy for mankind. It is fairess; it is good will at bottom. It impartiality of spirit and of judglent. I wish that all of our fellow Itizens could realize that." Our chief thought should be how > bring about peace. What the resident said in regard to nations itting in judgment on other nations pplles as well to Individuals. "No ation is fit to sit in judgment upon ny other nation',' said President Vilson. If this rule were observed ,'e would not hear such frequent ard criticisms of others, whom we re so prone to try and condemn unleard at the bar of our own individual judgment. + In view of the election to take dace in September to determine whether whiskey is to be sold in the itate. Governor Manning has adircssed letters to all the county dis>ensary boards advising them to be areful in the matter of laying in heir stock of liquors. This is good idvlce on the part of the governor. - tv.t'Tr3 arp.'trI "outh Carolina will vote liquor out. THE LANCASTER NEWS r TIC!! JOJC^OKMOiOMCiC rrfc -: OLD SOLDIERS' MEMORIES, * * * :^*s?mcic t ?txn :ic:;< :xa TKn C?ot/> n> ^-,1., .. . I. ,, 1UC VI * toici ua/ yu? o following beautiful tribute to the Confederate veterans of South CaroUna, who are gathered in the Capital City for their annual reunion: "So much has been said about the Confederate soldier that even a genius might write a panegyric which would fall flat. "When a crowd of old veterans come to Columbia for a reunion, we imagine that they are sick of praise. Rather, would they indulge; the memories, which, sadly enough, constitute about all that is left of the Confederate soldier. "Yet the memories of the old soldiers have in them no tinge either of pathos or bathos. They are personal diaries of a great war. Thev are camp-fire stories. They are things told in leather-covered chairs in club rooms or on cracker boxes In grocery stores. Most of the stage heroism of the Confederate soldier has been created for him by yarn tellers. There was no mock heroism | in the way he fought and died. He learned war and made p business of it. and he was a splendid executive, j There survive with him, for the most ; part, not the picture of a hundred thrilling assaults, not the facing of death at the mouth of this and that ; cannon, but the pranks of camp life, i the softening touch of some 'bunkle' | long since gone, the frolic and friendship and irresponsibility which war brings when too many young men get together all at the same time. "These old men?they are bound now to be old?are here in Columbia. Columbia welcomes them with , ofpen arms. Columbia Is ready for a day or two to go back fifty years. J Columbia, which is young, halls the veterans who are old. Columbia could not be young except it had had the veterans' spirit and the veterans' growl behind it. Columbia is sired by veterans. It pays filial greetings to its fathers. "We suggest this to the veterans, for their comfort. A half century ago the were fighting against odds. Their country was invaded, and they were dispersed after Appomattox, or they were being surrendered with Johnston. They were coming back broken in body and spirit, but they -mud. as a rule, their homes intact, their women and children safe. "Let the Confederate veteran ''now in this time of ravage and 'frightfulness' that the best infantryman the world ever grew made a standard of honor in the conduct of warfare in which a war-worn world tow lookR as to one of its imperish'ble ideals. "The Confederate soldier, like the <fficer who always 'dressed up' before a battle, remembered he was a ! gentleman, and was prepared to die like one." + * * THE FRANK CASE. * The United States supreme court having found against Frank, he will' soon go to the gallows, unless his sentence is commuted by the governor of Georgia, which is altogether Improbable. Many persons do not believe that Frank had n fair trial, j Many doubt the sufficiency of the \ evidence upon which he was convicted. But this is only what might have been expected. It was so when ' Claverius, McCue and Betty of Virginia were convicted at different unes on circumstantial evidence, as Frank has been. But 110 one doubts now the guilt of all of these men. rank was tried in the mode precrihed by law. He has carried his 1 case to the supreme court of Georgia, j as well as to Mie supreme court of the United States, nnd the cotirts would not interfere with his sentence. It is true his victim was only 0 little factory rlrl, yet the law is no respecter of persons and Frank should be given no more mercy than lie gave the innocent young victim of his lust. + MAY FESTIVAL. Mamie Fraser Society Plans Animal Event. On Judge Ernest Moore's lawn the. second annual May fete will be held under the auspices of the Mamie Fraser Society of the Presbyterian church. Wednesday, May 5. has been selected as the day for this in- : terestlng event. Voting for the May queen is now in progress at the drug 5 stores. The exercises will begin with j the crowning of the Queen of the May, with appropriate ceremonial, children's choruses, and folk dances. Then there will be the May pole dance, followed by a play and dances by the very little tots. prise will be offered for the beet' decorated baby carrlagd. including the apparel of the baby, who rides in it. Blue ribbons will also be awarded ttye Innst babies'of different ages. The price of admission to this interesting fete will be only 10 cents, 'to young and old alike. The progress of the balloting for May Queen wjll be reported in The News from time to time. / ?Miss Onibel Duren attended, the Sunday school convention at Newend is expected .owe today. , . . 5, APKIL 23, 1915. rWnc man w i$ afl * 9j? h as wrench* Cotton-vtocl cw? can mw ttiatt wlthmc string out for O I Start a Biiiiiiii-mimiMnii I I rrixT n | Account i THJ!j I ______ I ifllllHlllllllllllllimiMllimillHBl| ' FROM OTHER PAPERS J? Ul Hard to Tell. ^ Iluerta ("whereto") next? ?The u State. *,**. tr ~ 1 ' pi Now or Never. n< Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the clean-up movement. ? Anderson Mall. Forces for Hefortu. Paris has forbidden absinthe and tr the tango. As a force tor reform the ie war seem i to rival Hilly Sunday.? Charleston News and Courier. M Why Put on the Dumper? h< The merchant who does not adver- w tise has a store that is like a stove tl with the damper on?it does not A draw well. ?Greenville Piedmont. A fll Losing The Profit. til A farmer who doesn't raise his ec own foodstuffs is like a newspaper w without any machinery?the profit n< is going to the middleman.? Orange- hi burg Times and Democrat. at h< The Farmer ou the Job. tli The farmer will be missed in town in this week. He has an engagement with the cottonseed dropper. By sc the end of the week it will be pos- st sible to say how much cotton North tli Carolina will plant this season.? O Charlotte Observer. bt a The Probable Reason. Pi Billy Sunday says that crime would increase 100 per cent if the newspapers of the country were sup- lu pressed. Probably this accounts for ( 1 the emnlty of some people towards the press.?Spartanburg Journal. fth Gill's Acre. to A community knows its refinement. its real moral value, in no one thing more than its treatment of the al resting place of its dead. An unkept graveyard is a sure index pointing m to selfishness and wortblessness on the pait of the living Pecplc who 8'J f'. rget their dea l atv r.ot !lk-l> to in rank high In morals or in anything else.?Union Times. nt Sn "Saiety First." At Don't be swept off your feet by the rise In the price of cotton. With C'l f-n abundance of food crops and a ta t:irl price for cotton next fall this l'? country will be fn fine shape. Eut "I the only tafe. play Is te attend to the food crops t'.rst and let cotton come lo second. Safety first.?Greenwood In Index. m Ci The Only Sure Way. CI A man looked all over town for a certain article a few days ago. Prob*. th bly you sold him, but if you had ad- fo vertlsed the article you certainly qi would have sold him. This will hold nt good in most cases, a man will not go all over town hunting for an article that he learns can be secured at I"" a certain store from an advertisement. ?Abbeville Medium. Shame on lTs. We people of the South are too prone to sit back complacently and believe that we are as good as the best and possibly a little better than any other set of people In the world, When as a matter of fact, this 1* not true. If we were, we would not permit such shameful facts to exist as this. In all the United States with its millions of population, only 4 per cent above the age of 10- years aro illiterate. In South Carolina 10 per cent of our people are ^literate and can not read or write their own names?-York News, ' i \? Destroyer of Iftssct P(*t. We have beer. Informed that two young men of Savannah have produced a remedy for destroying the mosquito by making his haunts uninhabitable. The mosquito is one foe of mankind whose movements have not been thoroughly understood. But this much is known of him, that he can bring on a siege of malaria that will leave the human form divine as much of a wreck as the emaciated army of Austrlans was In Przemysl when the garrison surrendered. We do not know what this new for-vi'? !?. but we are tnfWftfM th??t It 1 ?' ' ' -/. ?. he thinks he has tic man nfflheut m b ttu Knodur from hii Acvr, nl WPI bear cpperlw?iby Wb?n_ twy In Hie bank alwa^ pporUmihj. Come \n c iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^[ii^iiiii'''''?"'ii''^)'iiii'^i'i'?'"iiiiilll^ FIRST NATIONAL BAN Lancaster, S. 0. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. Ives the mosquito away. If so, the n'.ted States government should aeilre the rights, manufacture the uff by the tons and free a nation orn a peril worse than the bubonic ague, which merely kills and does it maira.? Columbia Record. APRIL CONSTELLATIONS. Rock Hill, April 2 2.?Those who aced out the constellations, and arned to recognize the stars menoned in the description of the arch constellations should notice )w all the stars have shifted westard, as compared with their poslon last month. At 8 o'clock ir pril the Big Dipper is higher up; rcturus in Bootes, the kite-shape jure, and Splca, the bright star in ie southeast ,are well ;up above the istern horizon. Leo, the sickle, ith his bright star, Regulus, is now jarly overhead. Slrlus and Orion ive shifted down toward the west id will soon be down below the jrizon and when the sun sets and ie stars light up the summer eveng sky. The brilliant Sirlus is now in the luthwest, outshining every other ar. Running the eye from Sirius irough the leaning quadilateral of rion, round toward the northwest, it higher up from the horizon, find steady shining yellowish star, tho auet Saturn. Above Saturn find two bright stars nearly the same size and quite >ar together. They are the Twins istor and Pollux. The brighter the two is Pollux, though there good reason for thinking that is was not always so. but that Casr was formerly the more brilliant. About half-way between these rin stars and Slrlus. but a little tove and out of the line joining em. is another star of the first agnltude, Procyon. One more very bright star that ould be located is Capella, high up the northwest. Starting trom Jtelgeuse, the red star in one eor;r of Orion and running through ituru, and on c.s far again, you will id this brilliant white star Capella. Sirius, Betelgeuse/ Saturn, and ipelia, lie at nearly equal 4isn PPl on n rothnr nnnrlw /! *...? le, slanting across the western eky, > from the southwest. One other constellation should bo oked for not far above the horizon the northwest, a group of stars aktng a crude letter M. ThU is issiopeia, the Woman aiul the ialr. Write Prof. E. C. Coker at Winrop College for help in any efrts you are making to get acminted with the 8tr\rs and constellions. "Pigs I: BUT IN Bl_ Pigs and Cattle fc we select BETTE and stall-f Everything aboi CLEAN AND PHONE 160 FOR BEST! CITY M , . 'f ' O? R no chance I I xmcu In the I ???- ? ?! I II j |_ uffeJ his tars with 1 she bats summstft |i - . Herbert foifmon* * has the latch- [ ??> talk U oven 5 BBBMBI 5larl a I iE1 i 3a?fe | w | Account | ^ 3iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii|iiiniiiiiiiniii|iitlfl| | Minerva I and William Green Hill ' Are Coming V to Town i You will meet them in these columns in a few days and thereafter for a deliciously funny period. Yon will laugh fill you cry when ? you read "Miss Minerva and William Green Hill" By FRANCES BOYD CALBOUN Our New Serial INCIDENTALLY?A Delightful! Little Love Story PRINCIPALLY ? Wholesome Perennial Humor Watch For It I I li mh ^axsks vmt on^voucftri to \t\? -purolt to scute. Owe Xoxvb. Vxt \X5>\\S\T? \*au>FIRHT NATIONAL JRANK. 5 Pigs" 1TCHERING ?r Pork and Beef R PIGS ed beeves. ^ ut ear market is wum rcnur 11V/I<? nJV/AflAJ FOODS. PROMPT SERVICE 1ARKET