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. I III III III Ill THE BLKHSINOS OP ADVKR- 4 SITY. 4 -* #4111 I I I I I i I in II 8 im I H I Florence Times. It is said that the difference betwoen the optimist and the pessimist is that the optimist sees the doughnut while the pessimist sees the hole. Ho that as it may it has strained the most persistent optimism at times during the past fourteen months to see any doughnut around the hole. The terrible and apparently causeless war goes on with little prospect of ending so far as we can discover and the resurces of the world "?v uciiifS more and more taxed to meet the drain of its incomprehensibly immense economic loss But there is now a silver lining that appears about, the rim of the cloud. Adversity no less than prosperity has its lessons, and if we believe the Scriptures of all times that are past those lessons are the best f learned that the old world teaches to its restless children through adversity. The lesson that the war has been bringing home to people in this country only in lesser degree than to the people of the battle scarred countries of Europe is that of economy. We read of the extravagance and love of luxury that characterized the latter years of fhe Roman Empire, of lie pomp and lavishness of the French, of Bonis XIV, but at no time in the entire history of the world has extravagance of the rich and the poor been so without restraint as within the fifteen years preceding the opening of the historic August of 191 t. New devices of commercialism: new methods of finance; great. i - - - * ? * ' ' i.iK'un h i i ui Tiisiinriai production of nil of the essential commodities of modern life: quicken ed modes of communication and transportation, all. have contributed to the development of an expansion in credits and a multlplk-nt ion of business that created wealth with such amazing rapidity that the world was swept wholly away from her moorings. The anchors of prudence and caution were swept away with this increased wealth, accumulated largely in the hands of a comparatively few. Moving 8w 1 f11 into the ordinary currents this causes corresponding thriftlcssness in the whole body of our people. To us a slang expression, "it came easy and went easy." The extravagance of the rich and wnll-fn.rln u'qq mlmlnl/A/1 hv tltn mi/1 ? I die class and the poor. There is no one living in this community today who cannot run back over the past fKtoen years and remember how different were the wants of ihe family, of the man, and his wife, and the hoys and girls and by comparison how the cost of high living has first doubled and then trebled the yenrlv expense. There is an extravagance that it is not impossible to commend. This is the extravagance of the one who will strain a point to have a better home, better education for ids children, better health conditions in his town, the extravagance of the man who gives his wife the conveniences of modern life in the daily duties of the home and to the children the benefits of every advantage which lies within his reach. But no palliation can be found for the man who is so weak, or so foolish, or so dishonest as to cultivate in his dally Brand that of his family extravagant tastes which can he gratified only at the hazard of overwhelming debt, of habits unsuited to the duties of his and their lives. Them have been, in line, too many automobiles, too many line dresses and high-heel shoes, too many boys and girls who have their heels and their automobiles driving talents educated, and their tnste for fine clothes and soft drinks cultivated at the expense of their ability to earn respectable livings after they are turned loose in the world. Extravagance Is excusable in the rich because it helps them to distribute their surplus among those who need it. It Is inexcusable* folly in the poor because it leads only to dishonesty and ruin. , The war has taught us the valuable lesson that economy is a Rem of great value. We have learned thai wo can get along on much loss than a year ago seemed at all possible. Wo have been riding In automobiles when wc ought to have walked; we have cast aside good clothes because of a senseless change of style; we have bought beyond our means to keep up appearances with our prosperous neighbor we have smoked too many Hahnna cigars instead of a corn cob pipe, wc Malaria or Chills & Fever Prescription No. Mf U prepared especially lor MALARIA or CHILLS A FCVCR. Fire or ais doaea will break any case, and If taken then aa a tonic the Fever will not retarn. It acta on the livar better than Calomel end does not ^|e or sicken. 2S? > have ridden in Pullman cars when 1 | the day coach would have served. We have found when the strain and ' stress of hard times came that all these things counted for naught and that we could be just as happy and a "leetle bit" happier living strictly within our means at home. ( With South Carolina driven by the ..... ...vu i/iuuuviims enougn on her farina to feed herself, and every farmer living on his farm; with the towns-people living within their means; with the moral courage of her people stimulated to the point where they can resist the temptation of extruvagance, wo shall within another year have pulled ourselves out of the hole of debt and despondency by our own boot-straps and be well on the road to a real and lasting prosperity. The blessings, therefore, of adver-j sity are well worth cultivating and ; are by no means to be disparaged. | t H I II I 1 111 '! I < 1 H-i- l l 1 I I + ; + IT'S UP TO OFFICERS. + "I Walterboro Press and Standard. j "I expoct to make Lexington as! dry as a powder house. All of this j | talk about not being able to enforce! I prohibition is the merest rot, and as I linvn utnto/l " - miuu: 1 Will glVC I lie ; people or this county an example ot prohibition that will make every i county in the state sit iiji and take notice. I found prohibition to ' be about the easiest law coming under my supcri ision wlien we liad pr.hi | bit ion. and with a state-wide la I there is no ram why we eanr. >: | make it more effective. Just say thai i so long as I am an olllcer of tiie lawjust so long will 1 see that the laws are enforced." The above is quoted from a state , nient made by Sheriff Sim J. Miller of Lexington, when told the result of the recent prohibition election. That sounds as if a real man were speaking. With Manning or a man like him in the governor's office and a man like Miller in the sheriff's oltice, lots of the fear for tho enforcement of prohibition will vanish. Man hood is at a premium in South Carolina today, and real men are needed in office?not merely time serving politicians who unafraid to do their duty lest a voter become offended. The imvornnr sheriffs, and magistrates, and mayors of towns and cities, if they be real men, red-blooded and wedded to duty, can make South Carolina # "dry as a powder house." The Slato lias twitted the prohibitionists with being solely responsible for the enforcement of this law. While we do not grant the correctness of the reasoning with which The State fixes this responsibility. The Press and Standard picks up the gauntlet thus thrown down and if The State and other liquor advocates wish to take this stand, the prohibitionists can elect prohibitionists to the executive offices of South Carolina from governor to magistrate, including mayors and wardens and give South Carolina a real prohibition administration. In truth, thinking further about this matter, we suspect that is what should lie done anyway, else the election of Sentemher 11 were in vain. The Sumter Herald says: "In the future officers should bo selected who will follow the prin-i ciples laid down by our present gov-1 ernor in the enforcement of the laws' as they appear on the statute books without fear and without prejudice." And we say "amen" to this. Civinc Nature. Nature is pitllers; si r never with drav.s her flowers, her music, hcj joyousness and her sunlight from bo fore humnn cruelty and suffering Sue overwhelms man by me contrast between divine beauty and socia. hideounncaa. hue spares idni r.oth iny, of her loveliness, neither butterfly nor bird. In the midst of murder vengeance, barbarism, be must fee himself watched by holy things; he cannot escape the awtu! reproach of universal nature and t ie implucabU serenity of the sky. Tito <! -fortuity of human laws is forced to exhibit it Heir naked amid tlu dar.zlli'is rays ol eternal beauty. Mail breaks and de ! stroys; man lays v.astc; man killu: { but the summer remains the summer;! the lily remains tl.o Illy; the star ro ' mains a star.?Victor ! i ugo. Kver/ lloine Needs a Fafthriil Cough and Cold Remedy. When seasons change and colds appear?when you first detect a cold i after sitting next to one who has neezed, then it is that a tried an?" ested remedy should be faithfull1 sed. "I never wrote a testimonin efore, but, I know positively thai or myself and family, L)r. King's > Tew Discovery is the best coug! i "emedvj, we ever ua?d and we havt THE LANCASTER NOT * is such g ' I Yes, sir, P. A. pu smoke-appetite-div I i^y^INifwJtAND III i ^^hettl tobacco if i The toppy red bag, 5c For you can put y O. K. right here tl regular double-heac as iov'us to vnn way as "the other! Will the "rollers" I spell and get some systems? Because and sure jams more than ever before was In the plain languag any more resist sucl bullfrog can pass up Because P. A. hands cigarette roller e\ flavor, and aroma, i absolutely the best R. J. REYNO WFX-BX nefuoiai IODKCMtt, < iiivalry. Anderson Intelligencer. A young lady from Tennessee explains that "Southern chivalry" is an inheritance from Colonial days, "when women were ver> scarce and hence valuable." Sue adds that "women are plentiful now." Presumably. then, the South will ere long he treating women in the same cool, matter-of-fact way that is supposed to prevail in the North. As a matter of fact, the Tennessee girl was probably more than half right. Women are no exception to the rule a good thing s .Cued in proportion to its sfcarcrty. The American people as a whole are still recognized as the most chivalrous ot nations. Some races, like the French, may treat their women with more elaborate courtesy; hut nowhere is the sex so highly regarded and so i much deferred to in essential matinwl as in th?' I'nited States. And this is surely not because of any special virtue Inherent in American men. It is because the American 1 ANY OLD TIM | FROM You will find this Grocery St< you the best Gr< ?? ? ? I On The Job S Per ) : . I From ft a. m. till 9 p. m. we a 1 I and to fill orders just like yi r| or late we greet you with a WE'LL STAY 1 ; IP WE DON'T N I E. B.RODl f Kings Elegant Flour. SVS, OCTOBER 1, 1915. RINGE the nat ood tobacco just eat I ts a razor edge on youi ision that's nobby enough to be photographed ino other pipe and cigarette tobacco can be like Prince Albert, because no other tobacco car be made like Princt Albert. The patentee process fixes that?anc removes the tongue-bite and throat parch! Lei that digest! And that line of conversation is 24 kt., whether you play P. A. in your old jimmy pipe or roll it into a makin's cigarette. rour little old blue-pencil hat Prince Albert is a ler for a single admission r tongue and taste one Kindly step forward for a of this listen into their Prince Albert certain joy into a makin's paper fipured up on two hands! je of the hills, you can't h makin's tobacco than a > a piece of red flannel! 5 to you everything any rer dreamed-out?rare md mildness, and body; : bet ? the best smoke >LDS TOBACCO COMPANY, standard of liehnivm* was Hsialillslird in tlx* long coloni period, when t lie re wore not onou) women to k<> around unr is in *, tained by the scarcity of women tie still prevails in many sections of tl country on account of the invariab preponderance of men in pione sect ions. The fact is clearly noticeable todi in the contrast between the Kast ai the West. Women are plentiful New Kngland. In and around Itosti tho\ form a considerable majority, is common there to speak of "una tacbed women." and even of "supe tluous women." And the census ti tires are reflected accordingly in tl lessened respect paid to women general. In the West, where tl men are more numerous, women r ceive much more consideration. " Kconomie determinism" is a ne phrase that illumines many old pro loins. It's really surprising lu many phases of human manners at morals are determined by econom causes. . . . xj. '?'- m* E SIX to NINE r>re open and ready to serve [ >ceries in town. !j ^ ixteen Hours Day re here to answer phone 276 yu want them tilled. Early smile and serve you riprht. [N THE RING rATC*! A TWTKfTL OEY & Co. Rock Hill Bread. !'!:i'?-rr?? n ?? % Alber lonc.l joy smoke you feel like 3 \he smoke! C VOll or unv J ? ??* J lllclll t?V< i the fire to! Men, we tell P. A. is crimp cut and means rolling P. A. is as < log. And it's good to rem up in the toppy red bag "rollers." Sells for the pric 1 Now, will the "pipers" kin 1 Here's tobacco that has n three men to smoke t smoked before! Any way you hook it u\ tobacco insurance ! Yes your future as well as yoi ings! And iustmakpcvnr _ J pipe joy'us that your smc whopping big. You men say you go to P. A., natui there isn't a bite in a barrel of this national joy smoke. Unlimber your old jimmy pipe ! Dig it out of the dark corner, jam it brimful of P. A. And make fire with a match ! Me-o-my! You get acquainted with Prince Albert in the toppy red bag, 5c ; or tidy red tin, lOc, but for the doublebach-action-joy, you buy a cryatalglaaa pound humidor. And then you're set! You eee, it haa the j aponge-moiatener top and keeps I P. A. at the higheat top-notch point 1 of perfection. Prince Albert ia ulao I sold in nottnd nn/V K?if 1 ? r MMH'f/VUHU I If I humidors. Winston - Salem, N. C. n AI'TI'MN. i al ''hoster Ni'ws. ( Tim summer has gone, gone witli Imr (lower wreaths. her melody an 1 sweetness, her laughter and light u v , ' and love, and over the hills of the I' world the tirst golden beams of Autumn fall, turning the grapes to , ' purple, the cotton fields to snowy whiteness, the wheat to gold, the leaves to scarlet, yellow and red. \nd with those tempered rays of ,n light that come with their Midatouch over tleld and woodland, conn s ^ 'r too to the hearts of earnest and " grateful men, a deep reverence for I* I that Divine Power that rules our earth so well. To most of us, ' u' all this glorious wealth of colors, so in richly scattered over meadows and ]? forests seems merely a checkered ' ' " shroud, and all the wonderful mnat.? ' I I ENTERPRISE ~\% COMP I U, HEATH SPR + * ?; 4^ Prosperity has again arm X, cotton and every one is wear p *? now in a position to secure > the Kuropean war made it in ?. We wish to thank our cuatc r they gave us last fall and win 'r war, which has enabled us to r < % l)*dter service than ever i* I % Beginning one the 1st day |* a ticket with each cash purcl f V* title you to a chance of secui I. given away at 4 o'clock Satu b Becrin savimr vnnr r & the time stated, f We invite you to come in % more fully to you and also sh p *1 away. \ V Come in and get our prices i ture and Groceries, in fact 01 I will save you money. 1 Make this your headquart< J 1 friends here, leave your lapi :l $ fact transact all your husim ^ where you are always welco ! if: ENTERPRISE MERE T \ X HEATH SP1 t 14* __3 1 T rou could er did roll and put i you to wise up. stays put?which easy as falling off a ember P. A. is put especially for you e of a jitney ride, 5c. dly open both ears? nade it possible for pipes where one 5, Prince Albert is i, sir, it guarantees jr present smok ir tongue so jimmyike appetite grows who "dassn't," we ra /- //k e / Becau so The tidy red tin, 10c r?f the (lavs a dirge, prophetic of the year's coming death. l'.ut wo may look deeper down into I he world's beautiful soul, and with < the light of faith and love, the eye oes in all. not death, but fruition; not decay but change. The seed has leconie the fruit, the glittering green ?t" the harvest fields of ripe and .eliow grain. The leaves will fall over valleys' ? tbored and dead; the Mowers will Iroop and their fragrance exhale to jeaven. but in it till there is no sad'.ess. What seems death is the jrotnise of fresher life, and across bo vista with its snows and rosis, April smues suniii, fragrant .v'th crocus blooms just as over the rulf of death Faith sees tlie glow j if tlie jewelled walls of heaven. mercantile! j ANY * ^ INCiS, S. C. X I red with the high price of ing a smile again, for he is J the numerous articles that npossible to get last season. )mers for the nice patronage iter, regardless of this great get in a position to give vou X of October we will give you hase of $1.00, which will'en- V ing a valuable present to be rday, October 9th. ?? and have them on hand at and we will explain the plan ow you the prize to be yiven t Y on Dry Goods, Shoes, Furnin anything you need, and we ers while in town, meet your robes and other articles. In ess in our place of business, t me. Y K_ % :*kti:e company! RINGS, S. C. i