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FRIDAY, APRIL 2?. I?!.">. "
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What of the proposed night t]
school? The need is urgent but the h
volunteer teachers are few. p
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The public library is an institution
we cannot afford to be without. Then
why not help maintain it? ' n
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There are fewer loaded wagons' jj
going out of town just now than we w
have known for many a year. I p
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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
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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 ^
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The nearer the planting season ! gi
approaches the higher the price of 111
cotton goes. Don't be fooled, Mr.
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Farmer. Remember the fable of the , s(
spider and the fly. J pi
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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
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It will be well to remember that ! ,
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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.
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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. '
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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.
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In the removal from office of u'
Sheriff Huckabee of Kershaw countv,
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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^KftmXiaCtC v^n9SCiC40tCi0&ICCr!-! r IBELIEVES
IX FOREIGN MIS- I8
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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.
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THK PRESIDENT'S GREAT -ISPEECH.
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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.
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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
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-: OLD SOLDIERS' MEMORIES, *
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:^*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."
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THE FRANK CASE.
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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.
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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.
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?Miss Onibel Duren attended, the
Sunday school convention at Newend
is expected
.owe today. , . .
5, APKIL 23, 1915.
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FROM OTHER PAPERS J?
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Hard to Tell. ^
Iluerta ("whereto") next? ?The u
State. *,**. tr
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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"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
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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,
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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
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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^
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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.
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