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H* I v A HAPPY CUSTOM. 3 During this midsummer season. ^ this season of picnics, camping trips i and other pleasant outings, we often ;;> think of another custom which still f * happily prevails in this section, the j : good old custom of koldiug family t reunions. What a store of mem- t ories rush in one upon another at the I recollection of such gatherings iu J ilavti Innir cmip hv and what honfi I w 4 ' " (21?? iCanrastrr 2fouis (SEMI-WEBKX.Y. > ! Jl'AX IT A WVIilE. Editor J. C. 8HEPARI). . .Business Manage! PUBLISHERS' announcement j Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster, 3. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The Ledger, established 1852: The Review, established 1878; The Enterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the postofflce t Lancaster 3. P.. under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) Ono Year $1.50 Sl.v Month* 75c PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. Henceforth . all obituaries, vards of thanks, lodge notices, notices of all public affairs charging admission, citations, executors' notices, notices of discharge, etc., will be charged for at the legal rate. There has been some uncertainty in the minds of our friends as to what news really ts. The items mentioned above are not news items, nor can we accept such items for publieatlon except as advertising. Weather forecast for South Carolina: Local showers Tuesday and probably Wednesday. TUESDAY, JULY 2<>.l ?ir>. What has become of the proposed flour mill0 <! Plant plenty of vetch and oats and then you will be independent, no matter what cotton brings. 4 The watermelon season is at hand, we are told, but that longed-for "tirst fruit of the vine" has not yet found its way hither + "When the 'mob spirit' is dominant reason usually stands aside," is the wise observation of The Valdosta (Ua.) Times. + The home gardener is fast solving the high cost of living problem. He is learning how to have an all-theyear-round garden. + A happy holiday to the troop of Boy Scouts who are enjoying a jolly camping trip. May every day of their outing pass safely and pleasantly. + It may be well to remind our readers that South Carolina provides free virus as a safeguard against typhoid for all her people who will receive it. + We need more rural graded schools, more teachers and more pupils. Let's provide the schools and the teachers and then compel the children to come in. + Our very best wishes are extended to both teachers and pupils who are back at work again. In spite of the hot weather, we hope that good, effective work will be done. * (England holds up her hands in wrath at the German reply and too long already has she been holding up American goods shipped to neutral ports without being called down. > We need moonlight schools in Lancaster county, we need night scools right here In Lancaster and if we had frhnt AnthiiQiiiQm ffir pdupntinn whirh we should have, these needs would soon be supplied. + We hope that some ambitious young Lancaster boy will win the beneficiary scholarship to the Citadel. Again let us remind our youthful readers that the competitive examination will be held at the court house in August. What's the use? After sweltering through the heat of these July days, along comes the "Is-it-hot-enoughfor-you?" pest. We can stand the weather because it's up to us to stand it, but patience ceases to be a virtue when we meet the foolish questioner aforementioned. Be humane to your beasts of burden and to all dumb animals especially during this trying season. See to it that they have plenty of water and treat them mercifully. Their lot may De mane nappy or miseruoie according as their owner wills. + We hope our readers are mindful of the fact that the Home Coming of absent Lancastrians will soon begin. Let everybody in town entertain at least one homecomer and thus swell the crowd for on occasions of this kind "the more the merrier." There lies on the desk before us an unsigned news letter,, which we believe would b? ot interest to many of our readers, yet cannot publish because it is unsigned. Once more we will repeat that we do not wish the name of the author for publication but merely as a warrant of the authenticity of the news. dictions come with these thoughts r of long ago. It is well for the children of today to form the habit of attending these family reunions, where they learn of the deeds of vr.lor done by their forefathers and ( are impressed with those traits 8 which gave dignity and character to 'j their lives,? The Anderson Daily { Mail so Svefl expresses the meaning :) of these family gatherings that we ? quote from that esteemed exchange I the following editorial concerning s them: f "In the whole catalogue of com- I munity gatherings, public speakings, a picnics, etc., common at this season o of the year there is none, perhaps, v more enjoyable or conductive of as I much real and lasting good as the v old fashioned family reunion?the a kind that ore hold every year by a jo mmber of Anderson county families s we might name. A great deal of t valuable history, not only of these a particular families, but of the com- I munitv and the state at large is ( brought out ai these gatherings that I without them would be lost to us all, \ and. aside from all that, the gather- n tig together once a year at the old 1 home, or the old home church, of all i the children and grandchildren and t great grandchildren, cousins, uncles s t d aunts and great uncles and great l aunts?all coming together as one j .ireat family, is to be commended. s "Memories, both sad and pleasant t ?Sunshine, end mayhap, a hitting e nou Mtnl thnti oil vinch . sions are recalled as on no others. The merry laughter of the young and the childish prattle of the children are a joy to the old and their smiles of satisfaction and pleasure are a benediction to all, creating a feeling of family pride, or pride in he family name, to a degree that, could not possibly be attained in any i other manner. i "Therefore, we are always delighted when this season rolls around, and especially so when it is an oft year < in politics and there is nothing of hat kind to mar the pleasure of the day nor interfere with the business at hand. And we would encourage I the custom of reunions?not only for j families, but of the pupils of the old schools and of the old Sunday school classes, etc. Such gatherings do us all good." ; + ! \VK HAVE BEEN REMISS. hReference was made in this paper last week to the appropriateness of ' a memorial hospital to Dr. J. Marion Sims, and to the pertinent inquiry of The Columbia Record as to ' what has become of the proposed ' monument to this great surgeon, j The Yorkville Enquirer also feels < that it is a reflection upon us as a * state that we have not honored the ( memory of Dr. Sims as we should. ( The Enquirer says: j "The Columbia Record wants to 1 know what has become of the move- 1 ment to erect a monument to the ' memory of Dr. J. Marion Sims. We are sure that we do not know; hut we ' are afraid that the movement has 1 been allowed to die like many other < worthy movements If there is an- ! ther monument to Dr Sims, other 1 than the one in New York city, we do ' not know of it. Rut we do think that 1 so long as this matter remains neg- 1 lected?so long as South Carolina \ continues without a monument to this trr^nf and nohle nhvsician. South ' Carolina will continue recreant to her ' own honor. Forgetting nothing thai ' our great men have done in politics, ' in war, in literature, or in any other ' line of endeavor, we say without lies- 5 station that Dr. J. Marion Sims is ; more deserving of a monument than 1 is any other man the state has ever produced." ' + - HOME ECONOMICS. I We bespeak for the article on home economics published in this issue today, the thoughtful consideration of every woman reader of The News. Mrs. W. D. Craig, who contributed it, was so impressed with what she learned during the very helpful oneweek course at Winthrop College, that she wants others also to profit by the information she derived from it. A scientific knowledge of home- j making is of the utmost value to our women. Much can be learned in the home, for the wise mothers always give their daughters lessons in cooking, sewing and marketing. But that this education in domestic science may be more thorough and also that those who have at home bad no Rurh r training for life, many obtain it, the ' public schools shoiild be so equipped ( as to carry a practical home economics course. We deem It most j Important that the greatest business of life should receive the attention it deserves. THE LANCASTER NE\%S, n'EWS LETT EH FROM OALVE8TOX I ilr. Wylie Semis First of S?'rlc? on His Impressions of the West. Special by Staff Correspondent. Galveston, Texas. July 15.?Mrs. ,Vylle and I are now at the Galvei ' lotel on our way to the Expositions ;t San Francisco and San Diego, Caliornia. Several subscribers to The s'ews have requested that I give my tupressions of the trip West in let- ? ers to the paper. In complying with : he request I hardly know where to ! >egin and end. So I will-just jot lown what occurs on the impulse of he moment. <h|0I VVtt liif# hnma ?I?1? * 1 ? -w ?V4V uvuiv mvuuaj U15111 auu eached here via Charlotte, Atlanta. Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans ind Houston, coming by the South- \ >rn. Atlanta & West Point, Louisville i Nashville and Southern Pacific ailways. Our first stop was in New Orleans for a day, which we spent in light-seeing. My last visit to this dty was in 1885, when I attended the Exposition. It is a different New t Irleans now, with a population of >50.000. We took one of the slghteeing cars, visiting the principal daces of interest, such as the French narket, cemeteries and residence ections of the city. We left New Irleans last night and arrived at louston at 11:50 this morning. On rrival we took a belt line car going iver the principal parts of the city, rhtch claims a population of 90,000. t is indeed a hustling place. But re could not dwell long in Houston s we were anxious to visit Galveston. >11 the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of "iin i 11111 ^ II:L> 111 11 kzo? \> tf II1.1 < 1| he trip on an interurhan line, leaving , t 12 noon ant! arrivrng at 1:40 p. m. t is a delightful trip, hut as you near lalveston the sea breeze almost lows you out of the car, making it ery cool and pleasant. Having lever been west of the Mississippi >efore. of course we have been inerested in ev< rything we have seen. )ur train was taken over the Missisippi river when we left New Orleans iy means of a tremendously long flat trope lied by two steam boats on each ide. The train was divided up into wo sections with two steam boats on 1 ach side of the flat or scow. We ( vere not carried directly across, but ip the stream for several miles. We >assed throuch the rice section of Louisiana during the night. The \ evel land of Texas was interesting to < dew from the car window. ""Little I rexas ponies and cattle could be seen very where. f .V ftor Ion vine NTotv Orl oo n a u-n nade the acquaintance of Mrs. . \ Ernest Bonner and little six-year-old cirl. Jessie Lee. from Camden. Ala., vho were on their way to Corsiclana. rexas. to visit Mrs. Bonner's father, j Ihe is a very intelligent women and ;ave us much (information about rexas. She was born' and reared lear Corsiclana. and is related to , he Robinsons of Lancaster, her 'ather and mother noth being Rob- , nsone. She knows Rev. Ft. Lee Rob- 1 nson. D. D., well as he was her 'ormer pastor at Camden. She accompanied ?s-^e-C^atveston and will eturn with us to TTouston tonight, vhen we will part company, she gong to Corslciana and we to San 1 \ntooio. our next stop. This hotel, the Galvez, is quite an ' lttractive place, situated on the Gulf Mexico and in front of which it is he famous concrete sea wall built titer the memorable tidal wave of 1000, which wrought such destruc n to the city and vicinity and in r.tcfi so ma"\ lives were iohi. i ne liotel cost $1,000,000. The surf lathing here is said to be the finest in the country, which we can w ell j redit after having taken a dip thiu , afternoon. We made the trip to Galveston from Houston, a distance of 50 miles aver an interurban line in one hour ind a half. Just oatsido of Galveston we crossed the bay on the'magnificent concrete causeway, with Iraw bridge for passage of vessels, rhis structure is two miles long, with ' two trolley -tracks, two railroad tracks and a drive way and cost >ne and a half million dollars. We saw the immense grain elevator in Galveston which is said to be one if the largest in the country. The broad streets with grass plots are bordered with piuk and white olemder trees and beautiful palmettos, riie population of the city is 37,000. Houston is a city of 90,000 pnpula:ion and is a very important railway enter. It appears to be a very clean ind orderly city. We leave at mid- ' light for San Antonio, where we will ipend a few hours visiting the Alamo and other historic places, taking l rain .again late <hat night for I'll Paso. I will send other communiations as opportunity offers. R. E. W. SWAT HIM! Consider now the little fly, whose name is rhymed with Baby-bye, He has his birth in the manure, crawls forth anci loiters in the i sewer; And smeared with deadly typhoid germs, he leaves his brother maggot-worms. Unfurls his dainty wings of silk and dumps his microbes in the milk < Where their huge numbers mount and mount, increasing the bac- y terlal count, Until they reach the food supply some woman feed* her baby-bye. , The fly comes gaily unto us, his feet all gummed w'th poison-pus. And -singing clear his ^ong so sweet, alights and cleans them on the meat. He gathers scarlet-fever spores and leaves them on the walls and floors; -| He is not proud, and oft will stoop to carry heavy loads of croup, . tj Oh, do not call him indolent. He calls that summer day misspent in. which he falls to load the breeze with the live germs of some dis ease; And it he flnds them not, though hurt, he'll be content with just plain dirt. Consider well the little fly, who , .j buszes so 'round Baby-bye. ?Anon. i V ' ? I JULY 20, 1915. in in mi imi i i Dimes A SA1 And you will have if Dep< with Interest at 4 Per C,en Quarterly: $36.80 in One Year $75.07 in Two Yea $114.89 in Three \ $156.32 in Four Y $199.43 in Five Ye $1,082.05 in Twent; The starting of a Savings hard. If you will visit us you how easy it is. OUR D now being distributed, A HELP. Thf Fii A aaa* m At FROM OTHER PAPERS j Betclicrltfe. CJeewhilllkinsaintitliot??The State. ! , llud Went her. International torecast: Stormy.? j j Anderson Mail. * , ? i: No Kvtdenrc Vet. ! \ The downfall of Uermany seetns to i liave been somewhat exaggerated.? ^ 'herlutte Observer. Mere Matter of Age. The difference between a sweet < girl graduate and a suffragette is 1 >n'y about twenty years.?Columbia Kecoro. | 1 Prevalient Idea of Neutrality. I We arc lieutral as to the war in 1 Europe just about like a man we 1 heard of recently. He declared that ' he was perfectly neutral, as he 1 "didu I give a damn who wh pped t",e (.eruiecs."?Pagefand Joirnal. We Should Worry .J ' ? Our idea of a pessimist is a man who. unable to find anything else to worry about, is worrying about the political campaign we will have in this state next year.?Spartanburg Journal. "The Biennial Plague. Ishkabeebl. One year from now the ancient vermin, known as hecklers and henchers, will have crawled out of their hiding places.?Columbia Record. Idke Taffy Candy. To the merchant whose goods are worth selling, advertising is like molasses taffy?the more you work it he better it gets.?Lexington Dispatch. Nor Have We. All our lives we have heard of perpetual motion and too much watermelon, But in all this time we have never come in contact with either.?Savannah Press. '* ' ?.f . ; No .Better' Investment. One by one the. counties of the state are taking the wise course and employing whole time health officers. No county or community can make a tetter investment than to employ a good one.?Henderson (N. C.) Gold Leaf. Characteristic of Suffragists. When Jan"? Addarns went to Europe, she said she would stop the war if it cost her life to no so. sue is bark home, very much alive, to judge by the interviews she is giving out, and we understand the war is still , going on.?Greenville Piedmont. \\"e Are Sure Tliey Would. The Georgia legislature is grinding along in the usual way?Introducing more bills than any set of men could vote on intelligently. We have about y come to the conclusion that biennial sessions of the legislature would be better.?Covington News. Ignorance and Suspicion. The thing needed In the South is intelligent co-operation. Ignorance and suspicion, which always goes with ignorance, is the reason there Is so little of the get-together spirit. Just as a horse shies from an object he cannot understand, ?o the ignorant man is suspicious of any proposition that he don't see through. Ho thinks there is some trick in it.? Spartanburg Herald. Need of Debt Paying. Hradstreet'a representatives in the Southern states have announced the very gratifying discovery that this section if not afflicted wltfl hard tiraes-^-that the stringency that has been superflclally prominent for the past ten months is merely one result of the widespread practice of a Wise economy.- There has been an unprecedented practice of economy in the payment of past dile debts, and this accounts tor the stringency that has been worrying many of us.?Jamter Watchman and Poutbron. ? i The Right Man. It was a happy thought on part of Secretary Daniels when he called upon Thomas A. Edison to enlist his services as an inventive genius in the interests of his country. The secretary still better when he gave \ >re Young VE A DIME A DA )sited Monthly ^mm t Compounded >f Our I rs. / I BAI^ ears. I y Years I Makes S? Account is not \ ri we will show \ ?3Sj IME BANK is V ND IS A BIG tst National LANCASTER, S. C. dr. Edison assurance that this new jranch of the government work vould be under civilian management ind directed by civilians alone. There ould be no better arangement than me whereby civilians may plan and >avy and army officers execute. Hav ng placed Mr. Kdison iu control of his new bureau, the government ouhl do nothing better than to put >ehind him every resource which he night denial.d. Kdison should be , given a free hand. a*td all the money, .i the facilities and all the men he | nay call for. We are confident that 1 ic is shortly to demonstrate to the j ^ountry that the submarine as now j perfected is capable of being made | dill more effective. The first subma- j rlne looks like a crude and clumsy j ift'air compared with the boat of the ' present day. The submarine as wo i now know It may appear even a more j liscretTitable craft when compared to the submarine as improved on by Kdison.?Charlotte Observer. A coffee Ben - l'''' ; ; > / ? B. How a woman does enjoy quarrelng with a man who isn't quarrel- | iome. Twelve Reasons Why Yon Shou d Buy Your Groceries of Us J*o. 11. BECAUSE wo arc careful with the little details of our business. We till telephone orders with exactness. You get the right packages. Such small things form the mountain of good sendee. E. W. S Dollars lY tone] ,K m >vi"g jL^/ , Bank \ i (iiilfney Chautauqua This Month. Uaffney Special to The State, July 18.?Informatioh has just been received in Gaffney from the Iladcliffe Chautauqua l>ureau of Washington that Gaffuey's tlirce-day Booster Club * Chautauqua will he held on July 26, 2 7 and 2 8, instead of during September. us had at lirst been arranged. It is thought that the change will suit a majority of Gaffney peoplo better and most of them seem to be enthusiastic over the prospect of the event scoring a success. Ah! the Invigorating Whiff of the Pine Forest! How It clears the throat and head of ltd mucous aliments. It is this spirit of Newness and Vigor from the health-giving Piney Forest brought back by Dr. Bells Pine-TarUnnnv A n#(aAn*le ? ? A V? ' 1 ? ? t> ?? nuiioo|iii\; OUU Ilea 11 U|(. OUj a bottle today. All Druggists, 25c. 1ST ARE ,,Mli: W Safe 'ink! you satisfied with the ;; and tea that you are i? i 4 1 i > iot we should like to pou try ours. Our exce has taught us a lot what are really good and tea. eflt by it 1? ' & COMPANY