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2 LAUGHING AT SERIOUS THINGS | *** * i. Attitude of the World Has Long Been a Matter of Complaint Among the Realists. ^ t I Man y creative dramatists seek to The draw men and women with remorse- i>l leas realism. Now. It is exactly this be a rsmorselessnesB of the artist which . . gets him into trouble with a number nR of different sections of our world. He not Is unflinching in his portrayal, and men do not like unflinching portrait Geoi painters. desp They want the picture touched up utat by some indulgent and benevolent woe! philanthropist. The realist refuses to ti play with what he deems to be the raan truth. At the time when the younger Dumas was writing extremely inter- () esting though not altogether persua- a ~ sive prefaces to his plays and was one particularly occupied with some of the factdestructive activities of modern worn- with an he made some remarks about the guilt things we ought to laugh at and the i on I tilings we ought not to laugh at j poin "It 1b our common habit In Prance." 1 |aw he wrote, "to laugh at serious things." sava It Is often our habit?especially In mu- mn^ leal comedies?to laugh at serious things. j But, according to Dumas, the only i and right attitude is to laugh at things I grea which are not serious, and which 1 what make no pretension of being serious. ' creo< When we are face to face with a; nn g grave social danger It is a very cu- > (n , rious sort of aisdom which dismisses, . such subjects with a laugh. | * There is, of course, a touch of ped- e antry in an observation like this j Indlv and there was certainly a good deal was of pedantry In Dumas' didactic at- in tl' tltude. Nevertheless, there is solid takei truth beueath, which is very applica- .their Me to our modern audiences. ajBO Conn OLD AS THE ETERNAL HILLS ??pp' i whlt< R. E. Morse, the Outlaw, Lurked in judic Shadows in Garden of Eden, and wreti is Still with Us. gave law? If Adam were still alive he would be about tho same age as It. K. Morse. ..t..._ i ne Adam mot him after lie was banished from the garden of Eden. Eve also Whili knew him after she ate the forbidien fruit. Pharaoh must have been well acquainted with him, as he met As him repeatedly. Ho was with Joseph's The brethren a long time after they sold "It Joseph into Egypt. Saul, David, Solo- the < tnoti and all the kings of old knew him ompli well. And in the Now Testament \v overv find men who also know him. Judas. ors t ?ho betrayed the .Lord and afterward killed hiniselr, Peter, who denied his for e Master, and so on all the way through 'aw 1 the Rible and up to the present time, name We all know him or have met hlm.lpeopl Could we by any power annihilate' noble R. E. Morse, how happy we should right tnake the world! But no ono cares to' crjmi profit by the experience of others, and t therefore all must learn by the one ? 1 ever. teacher, whose lesson is bitter in the extreme. thc 1 Experience! If our conscience were have not hardened, and we would listen to We ti Its dictates oftener. we might become self lees familiar with R. E. Morse. Look- shoul lng back Is the time we see him. R. E. Satar Morse is always right there behind an(1 ( us. If he would only come out into the j w open, so we could see him as he is, we might avoid his acquaintance?the 11 ia' outlaw, Remorse.?Christian Herald. woul< that m.i ? ~ will * Nature's Crushing Plant. ity r A well-known manufacturer of crush- ti(. tng machinery gives it as his opinion T)i that there is but one manufacturer who has ever produced a perfect pulverizing machine, aud that is the Di- an'' 1 vine Inventor. He continues: "I exam- also ined one of His machines in 1882. I was may impressed with the magnificent output subst of a million tons a day, crushed from iv.olis coarse to slimes or silt, according to ou|. | figures given in a report of the United ronf States geological survey. I am refer- (! ,-o ring to the great Colorado river. It ,l generates its own power, with no loss ' 'lin* of time for repairs, no slipping of tap- bring pets, no broken cams and no dropping when of stamp heads?a perfect work from his start to finish, and a perfect object prav< lesson for the inventor. I.arge irreg- i,js i ular rocks are worn into bowlders, and ( from that into cobblestones, and from <>nhh1r>ntnni>a intn annrt nr.fl aarwt J Into slime, aud then delivered to points where the product will do the fh? * most good for the human race. Tho mini] immense Imperial valley and various tion. ether valleys have the finished prod- ind net from that magnificent pulverizing ,nfin machine."?Engineering and Mining mob Journal I with " " I T|. Made vVrong Calculation. . The astronomer Simon Newcomb, ppbjH once calculated that the maximum ve-. loclty attained by a body starting with ywr velocity zero at an infinite distance fj?rf and passing thn ugh a stellar system 011 containing 100.000,000 stars each five ^T\i times as massive as our sun nnd dls-1 ;,us trlbuted throughout a disk-like n spheroid of certain extent cannot ex- . ceed 4rt ki'ometers per second Yet Pnr the star "Groombridge 1880" has a 10 r speed nearly nine times this value, ["T". and the massive star Arcturus lias a ?ln S(1 ( peed prob h'v four times this valua. _ . Ped to s Flour to extinguish Fire. Tne Tf should i *? a matter of common tors. knowledge, since hour is always with In convenient reach, thnt wheut flour lovlg Is the best extinguisher to throw over Thee s Pre cense'' hv the spillirg and Ignlta m MfllHI log of keroatiie um. Tl-IK LAXCAST + * YNCHINO IS AS CKIMINAL + * PICK COTTON A'HKN THK VICTIM IS + + SKI.I. IT OU1I.TY AS WHEN HE <* IS NOT. + l ? l ?l I I I M i l"! + The Progressive F III I1 < ? There's the sloj Progressive Farmer. we wouid suggest le Progressive Farmer aims to now?pick Cotton journal not only of good farm- n slowly. Jn the but of good citizenship. We can- t^e ]mpo.**ti~e o refrain from saying, therefore, utmost prompt nes in the now famous lynching in lively summe-1 up gia recently the whole South, demonstration age ite all explanations, had its rep-' clarcd in our coh ion as a law-abiding section "From carefcl < ully injured. pertain that unci Ouet>tion aa whether the t,ons a fleld thftt lynched was guilty, guilty as baleg Qf coUon if fiend In history, or not guilty at: ber and 0ct?ber -this doesn't affect the situation mo,e tban ejRht y iota. We were, as a matter of fleM URtn Dec(, quite prepared to sympathize Then the rcd.Jred those people who. believing him gradeg wm ba :y, wished to see the law inflict , .. tlier loss to the > ,im its <lirest Penalty. But the ,)a,e8 In Qther W) t is that it should have been the in8tead of |ck,ng that punished him and not a . opens, leaves it 1 ge, unknown and irresponsible , . , .. . K late fall or early average loss of ai e need here in the South to teach nf jts total value. preach with a thousandfold Tbe utter waste ter emphasis that no matter our folks in tliis : the crime may be or what race, sickening. Men, w 1 or color the criminal may be, wjjj WOrk tlirougl tuatlon can ever justify a mob of summer to kee usurping the functions of Al- vated amj free fro ity God and taking a human life, throw away their need to teach that it wasn't an to pick promptly idual. guilty or not. that alone vvarmth of autumn lynched, wherever and whenever be outdoors, le past hate-crazed men have The farmer's pr i the blood of a fellow-being on large when he gets souls, what was lynched was ^be market offers, the sovereignty of the ancient away by careless monwealth we have sworn to ing any hard ort and the civilization of the j_.i ?... *.?_ ... -- iit'tMivii ny ma ? > race as represented by our jjet-8 pjrk the cot ial system. Whenever the vilest (|ien lot's se'l it si *h has yielded up the life Qod tj,.i?>s in this we him to any but the soveregin 0learlv to the wisd 1. Authorities i depression every i n I. and von. *nil all of us fell . ? . tress cotton and down st bloody treason flourish'd prices advancing over us." case last season. rushed on the early the writer said in an article in ?t Rjx and 8eve? Atlantic Monthly years ago: ,( wag ,en cont8 ,)f is not the criminal's right, but e(, what (hen n, ourt's rights that we need to bale frop to ,)e , asize. In his heart of hearts nlantinR time? man must say with the lynch- 2 Warehousing hat the rapist is a brute who has (.egg befe ftnd ft s Ited all human rights. Hut the Rvgtem |g needed hat we have set up in God's No(jco Mf McljftU ' and in ,ho name of a? the farmers can borro e?this has the highest and the v#luP of the cc st of rights, and it is the law's SmUh Carollna , to try the criminal, not the noUce Mr Hard,np nal's right to a lawful trial. Kovernment wlll ?, is violated whenever and wher- bankg |n financinp an irresponsible minority usurps warehouses ,owers which the whole people ,o "prpvent tho we vested in our courts of justice. ba,eg ,Rff om ln u iced to teach that if Satan himare ginned?a loss should commit a crime, we AdamR on paRe 7 d try him in legal form?not for 00(| 0((0 R year to i s suae, nut ior me saKe oi law , alone. This Is sli order and civilization; not that 4 Nmice alflo ould ha\e the right to a court ? . Farmers Union is hut that our courts alone , ,. , , . , , , grade their cotton il have the right to trv him; and . , ton and cotton set trial by any other body is. and , . farmers in every jver be. unsurpation and minor- . . , - ganize and tlo for ule,?un-American, undemocra- . . not in your county ind unendurable. i ... . k i It s easv enough e mob spirit in the South must . and the. governme .? under foot. Though the courts a (hoU8anrl m the pardoning power (which is ?rst thlnf? to do ,8 a part of our judicial svstem), .. . . , ' own cot ton patch I sometimes make mistakes, to . , , . . ... ton picked quicklv itute the tnob for them is as ... . , ... ? neighborhood by gi di as to burn the house over ... . _ . hold, grade, warel heads because of a leak in the ,. _ get her: then reach Our judicial svstem is the foun- . . J by having a comnv n of our civilization. Kvery lyn . . _ J ' bankers there and C weakens that foundation and ... . . ? . . and then take in t ;s us so much nearer the time (|eniand|ng a state , no man can sleep in safety in ,,|(.k qulrk,y nn bed if any mob. however de- ^ ,wplve.cent ba ?d. thirsts for his property or ife. _ Storms Puzzle nching in the largest sense? The source of "n st as wrong when the victim is some measure is yi y as when he is not. For it is withstanding long > tubverslon ot law, tne under- uy me most devote ng of the foundation of civillza- theory is that a pe that constitutes its deadliest Krner?4ted ironi (roj . . . ... , . and that the waves most damnable quality. Let uai .. the magnetic poles, of the South have done with the at|vp 8troama whi spirit, now and forever, and phenomena It ha. all making of excess for it. that this luminous I ran only manifest _. , .. . A. _ atmospheres, and The Justice of the Peace. . _ . ...... . ' have really be?n ic Justice of the pea .e has always vpg(,pls from h, , the target of criticism and mirth, i .. . . . ,, practicaily exhaust very hour, perhaps, a fellow law-. Is standing in the back of a rural' > regarding his honor with; The Troubt ghts that his tongue darea not ut- Men are wltltou 1,/jrd Cow per scored the Kngllsh these days, and at ce. and pronounced him a man fussy and self-cons letimes illiterate and frenuently cal part of the wo led and preiudlced." Wo havo One sees the artist d of the Justice who, when nsked ror to himself as h? harge the 'urv, ronlled; "Oontle- congratulates the a , this has been a long and tedious that he carved it, for me; I'll have to charee you lost In the love of ents apiece." A certain dissatl* though a lover aho advocate so we are told, "moved instead of singing trike out part of the. evidence.*' subtle poison of soi motion being put to the sneeta- crept in and peers v as carried.?Caso and Comment, the picture and frc [Orating to the Pale and Sickly Piles Cured lr ild Standard general atrenythentng tonic Votir druggist will re fK'S TASTKLKSS chill TONIC. drlveBOiil ' iINTMKN I* fail* to cu la.enriches I he blood .and b-illde upthe a?? Ulnd, Bleeding or Protrt A true tunic. For adults and children. ?>oc fie fint application giv Elt NEWS, SKPTEMBKK 21, 1' ?|.i|h|'4"H',H,4,4,4'4't' !-i?!- ! V '* QUICKLY AND COTTON'. SI.OWLY. + + !??I?I?I?I?I? r-H-l111 > Florence Times, ariner. Such conflicting iuflu* jan and shibboleth been at work in the cotl to cotton farmers that any attempt to forec i Quickly and Sell ture trend of the trade w< matter of picking' wlse further than to reclt f promptness?the ctpai elements which have s?was very effec- etj to the present sltuat by * former state cl i reot attention to the pi nt who recently de-i cat developments. >mns: 1 The principle element li abservation we are tion is the declaration ol ler average condi- absolute contraband of w will turn out ten allied powers. It Is man picked in Septem- ever, that the gradual a will hardly make this declaration so fore> >aleB If left in the market that Its actual pr !tnber or January, occasioned no violent fluct price due to poor seems to have been adeq bly result In fur- counted by the trade. 1 ralue of two more band order was publish ;>rds, the man who. morning; the news causec his cotton as it tion and the market yes n the fields until New York after a tempon winter, suffers an went back up the trail ur rouna iv per rem ber sold again at 9 Vfe witl steady at a net gain of 1 t fulness of many of A market feature of the d respect is almost dearth of selling orders omen and children South from which quarter i the hottest days ticipated there would be i p the cbtton culti- lowing the British contr m grass, and then'der. profits by failure News from Texas and when the gentler was distinctly bull i makes it a joy to mocb as it indicates m serious damage resulting ofits are none too tropical storm of last weel i the biggest prices been expected. Another Let him not throw pfoce of news was the state and delayed pick- a jiigh bank official in Was 3d dollars so much the effect that placing cot Ife and children, absolute contraband list m ton quickly. And jn a temporary decline owlv. All the ar- create no serious situa ek's paper point dispatch from Amsterdam om of this course, indicating the serious flna joint out the great (inn in Germany and the n reason from "dis- declaration of war by It flooded markets. Turkey and the extreme later, as was the ,,f ti,P Balkan swing to Millions of bales ranks, are taken to indie market were sold positively than any incidet ents last fall, but corded that peace in Kur fore planting end- far distant, lght a 12.000,000 All of these elements tak irlnglng by 1910 (>r in<jicate jn no unccrta that cotton has vastly mor ; is the key to sue- tjian t|ie bearishly inclin fate warehouseing h.,vo ua i>0ii0vo. There it in every state. no, |,tng jn the atmcspherc rin's renort that .... inui snouici make the cott w SO per cent of nPrVous The whole sttuntli tton stored in the -ng 1(p jf cotton strike warehouses. And j,ra(^G on (jie unnouneemc c's report that the |i;iK j,oen niade absolute ( tand behind the war the prospect for t I the crop. market is fair to good. are also needed Our advice to the cotton ather damage to lQ sejj onjy when absolut le open after the> gary anfj )10ld and store which Mr. Nathan tjiat ran j,e withheld fronc estimates at $25,Texas farmers ameful. _ ,h;i;r?ka~ shighestcr si and sell both cot- emaMOND >d in pools?work ^ f, county should or- vVJ>- <5> themselves. Why ft. O 0? J. ^ JP to blame Kngland -au* for cttt-crntrnt and everybody Jjia*. >.<u 1'".a.n"?> p:;.i.s iu k Gold &a??tailU* > xcs, sr. lsvl t/U iles away, but tn? Ribbon. l ru * rucn. iw t, ricrVit in our Prvr.r t*t f >?" "1 to get right in oui kmoni? hu.vx i? vii i.h, i<m l? having the cot- years K^rdrdc-. Or t.; A-'" ; then take in tlie SOLD BY ALL D ?tting neighbors to EVERYWHERi louse and sell tot tic market town ^ it tee interview the QOIJT'/ get them riglit, he whole state l>y warehouse system. W ^riT>>s. cl problematic. not- \A^I i ^ cars of observation . d astronomers. One \ isitive electricity in cj >ical water surfac.M THw ^ are swept north to ^ Southern Bailwaj been demonstrated Trade Mark i nia'ino'ic matter jib0 gouthern Hallway itself in very rare has adopted a new and similar phoneme- trade mark as shown abovi produce 1 in n!r : sign "SR" la aymbollcal to i the air hm been of the road and the wor e(j Southern ServeB the Sout ' restive of the many llnee o the Southern Railway hro s With Art. of the states south of the t great droarn-* Potomac and east of the *t la elaborate ni. rivet*. clou. Tlie toc .n I T*"" '? h"dl' * ?'? < rk I. orcdoclnoo. *> ?*???". , South that is not oonnecte t holding up a .?.?? balftQce of the gouth> eith ? works Pygnialiot by tbe gouthern Railway's tatuo upon the ism , or by sleeping car lines , instead of hel"" roads In connection with creating It r Railway, via some adjacei uld sing of * irv'r , point. On this account th? of his lad-'. The Southern 8erve? the 8< f-adverti i m i adopted as being appropi like a sntv- Yon ! Southern Hallway spe , ; $200,000 a year in advei Mn '' a great deal of this adv< ~~ done in the Northern, E i 6 to 14 Days I western sections of the co tund moaey il PA7..J t0 attract people into the re any cn?e of Itrhinr. ' _u ?# .v.. _ idIt.*Mle?lnCloHd.V?. I ?n " ' ?f th " ? e? uait and Rest. soe. i trade mark will appear h 915. Varied Kxpericnre. South. Carolina's experien * the liquor problem has been li varied. The last form In v has been handled has been 1 ences have option In the counties, those :ou market Birlng being allowed to open ast tbe fu- pensarles. The new law is sta >uld be un- In Its scope and will mean th< e the prln- lng out of all dispensaries > contrlbut- state. ion and to It is said the law is so draw eeent logi- leave "but few loop-holes." The results 6f this election i the situa- surprising to many, that is > ' cotton as gard to the size of the major nr hv th? only goes further to show th 7* . of public sentiment the count: 68 ' now- ?charlotte News, pproach of varned the Stoaoxraphers Organize omulgation Columbia, Sept. 16.?The uatlon and tary of state today issued a uately dls- to the South Carolina Sh< 'he contra- Writers' Association. The ed Sunday are: John J. Brennen of ! I no sensa- president; J. W. Wingato of iterday in i town, vice president, and tri ary decline and Krnest L. Allen, secretar, itil Decern- first meeting of the associati h the close be held in Columbia on Tha o 3 points, ing Day. ay was the from the it was ana rush folaband or- ' f srrt ' | ^teato?al? fi&ofii? <gvj8 k than had L . . ? steadying iment from || The constant stn rr,H?e factory work very ight result results in Heada but would: a ^ , . ? t ion The J u Backaches and 1 . likewise. I Aches, and also > ncial siua- I XT ews of the ens the Nerves. "LuZI;! DR. MILESn'lk"1 ANTI-PAIN PI ate more ZXZ | will quickly reliev Nerves, or Pain, 1 In" manner j Dr- M"?' :/'r;r,5: Heart Treatir : is very helpful on farmer I the Heart is overt on is look-1 . if first box, or b 8 t no lip fails to benefit you, nt that it I MONEY will BE REFUh ontraband t i rllmbinR i farmer is1 ~ ' "" ely necesevery bale y k the mar-' ?I Y our fills r i A 1WUO 1 , v *** TI/R S /v " ????? i 2ilue\*y> of 7,|,? v ' Tf K S V I r t u t \ ^^irre ' when you eat b b I oTS , , r worth and genuine al - THSTKtr . , have 110 equal. You buy the r to us. and you sf\ k/ CITY M r New | ~ ,.S| EVER 1 the name.y M A V J Hlnv "TKa I h" is BUg- X perated by V m ughout all ?t? 1 1 i Ohio and t MUriMippijT 5r town of X he entire f Good Beef Catt er^dtrecUy % Stall-fed with gO(.(l own trains f experts; prepared ?1SS % Orders filled RIG1 nt junction z ters; and when it u > title "The V >uth" was > KNC Plato. I ?g | CATAWBA untry ho as ?? South, and th!i ' ereafter. Defense Necessary to Peace. ce with New York, Sept. 19.?The League ' oug ami (0 Knforce Peace, of which William .hich it jjowar(i Taft is president, in a Stately local . ment Issued here today, declares that i bo aeate dis- efficient preparation for adequate nakte-wide tlonal defense is in no way inconeise clean- tent with the purposes of the league, in the but on the contrary is essential thereto. rn as to Women Farmers, may be The success of women in farming Is rith re- no longer an experiment, for We can ity. It point to many brilliant examples of e trend former clerks, schoolteachers, stery over, nographers, lawyers and Women of leisure who are now earning a competence. many on the road to wealth. ' by reason of their contract with the secre- soil. If a wotnan will but meet the charter common-sense requirements that are orthand ! demanded by the best gardeners and officers prompt attention to the market Sumter 'end ?' business there Is no reason q ' j why she may not earn a comfortable living on even a fev acres of land. jasurer, on wUl CMrvs Soro*' Cthsr RemeUos Won't Cam The worst cn?c?, rn ni itter of how Ion* standing, nksgiv- ?re cored by the wunderfot, old reliable Dr. I Porter'* AatUeptic Healinr Oil. It relieee* I V?lu !?' Mm' itlie sane time 25c. SOc.Sie* H ? 2 )?( ) IpaOOQ^QCiKO I CCUPRP PAIN. 1. "I used to suffer a great deal j j with lumbago In my shoulders I |0|lt and back. A friend Induced mr to try Dr. Miles' Antl-Puin ? Pill* and I nm only too glad to When bo able to sit test to the relief ? tlint I got from these splendid axed. pill*- They form a valuable medicine and do all tUat It Is OTTLE, clrlined they will do." , YOUR LEWIS J. CUTTER. A IDED. Marietta, Ohio. Appetite Vo Whetting our meats. For freshness 11 round deliciousness they eal article when you come r money goes a long way. ===== ^ EAT MARKET VTUIMr^C . i iiiiiivi tJ X iOOD | HIS MARKET. % le grazed on good pastures or gram and forage; butehered by for sale by men who know. IT NOW by experienced cutoes on your table you >W IT'S GOOD. MEAT MARKET Phone 210.