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r , . 2 LANCASTER C ASSOC . MEMB 1 Hit* Column pabL.<hed ui>ekl} fi iind others interested in the Autou jrnf.v GIVES "DO'S AND DON'T l'OI? MOTOICIST> rtURRCilions made to ?u'.oi*t> by Judge Joseph Snbath, Alio, a.s the head of 4 he automobile or "Speeders' Court," of Chicago, handled 19,000 cases during his term on the bench. Don't Irink intoxicating lhivior or permit your chauffer to do so wMlr operating an automobile. Don't drlvu faster than the law allows. Dor.'t permit your exhaust fitnoke. Don't oss a boulevard until you come to a full stop. Don't a street car ou t.h? i^ft side. T?i>u't i>\ss a street car v\ r.lle passengers a~e boarding it or b?tng discharged Don't keep your maffltr open arj an^ tim" or place. t>on't use glaring lignts Don't drive on the wrong -?ide of the street. Don't .<~ep up a conversat.on while dnvinng or permit your chauffer to 4"> so. Don't drive on street car tracks. Don't permit anyone under the age of 18 years to operate your rar. Don't operate a car until you are absolutely competent. Don't permit your chauffeur to wpned. "specially while you are in the car. You are just as guilty as tv? and may be prosecuted also. Don't carry children or women ->n y>ur motorcycles. \lwaya drive on the right side of ah ? st reo<t \?sv all vehicles except street cars en the left. .Use best lamps and lighl them at sundown. Procure your state license at once. ' Procure your vehicle tax at once unit save court costs. Observe the traffic laws strictly. In Pawnee county. Kansas, every ether family owns an automobile. I'd like to claim that as being a world record for old Pawnee, but even so the rest of the state isn't sol far behind that Pawnee san afford t-v -est on its laurels. Census ex- , pert a figure that there are close to *0,000 automobiles in Kansas: 77.*"0 and over are registered. I fores1 ?o say that the Pawnee figures er arrived at by averaging a Kansas lA.iuiy in lour ami a uair persons and IMwnee county has one automobile to every nine persons in said comity. Ri Rhty thousand automo bile.- ai an avernpo nf $800 each works out to the snup little sum of 1 *t> 1 ,"00.1)00 n* tht. va'ue of Kansas' auto crop. * -- ? is i \ doctor says that pills woult-4 b pret*ier if they ate nior* onion: aut Jest candy. Meybe so. hnt?let n* ???! the doctor that if ihe pir':' fMJowel any such advice as ho has i -a fh?. would have fever c.Uis? friends and a blamed sielit jfov rides. ?. t?i <pone [t hut this nutoinohlle is a pesky fhinp! -V vouiip a week bookkeeper in New Fork who atnl" I *-?i. noo from his employers to help ? " " iiiii iii i ii i ii mi rr rma uii^ii iiumm .1 his downfall to the high cost uf 'Iv gasoline h<> used in hi" * 1. r> f> 0 .-?? fan you heat that* Y'hi'vh col to ?i vr> him 1 r**'t i?. 11 a perfect combination of speedriti*dev. puce judge, chronometer and 0 other thing" tending to the P"?diirt:on of Infallibility, if the i New York traffic policeman. If lie ! wasn't all of these how else could he have irrested 7,870 automobilist 3 1 In New York t'ity lust year and had 7 761 of them fined $164.720? Just hink of it! In 7,870 arrests the policeman *:vs rlgnt. 7.764 t'nies and the oiiinmcMlim" rlcrh' i nlv l(?ft times! Isn't it marvelous such accuracy when you stop to consider that no Jud>co in ever prejudiced against tho automo'bilHrts and always believes that the word of the driver and that of the policeman are equal! l>on't say It! I know what vf u think, hut let it go at that. Never forget the fact that the dub in the old town may go away and betome a mech&nleUut. . -v ; .'J' p. :OUNTY AUTO IATION \i:\\ ok ? i the information of the meinbeis toliilo ltoth for pleasure and huoint^s There ar- x.27;>.000 utiles of pub j lie roads ito- United States which , means that :'or every mile of public j road there Is a fraction more than or* automobile. F; this car-per-ntilc thine was on'.y capable of being carried out t< a point where the mile of road was anything like as good a? ( the car that is average upon it. what a grand thing it would be for you ! .1114 iv. and the other fellow? As it | i< j wevt.-r, only L'47.4'.?f> of these I road miles ?-.re rated ?> good; hence the ratio d good roads to good cars . - uLout >n?> mtu> ot roan to evoiy ' t n ut.omobite* We have watched Europe liirht for .1 chance to buy our motor vehicles for war purposes without seemingly ever thinking that our own toy arntv niight ;1t least need one or two of them. Comes Mr. Villa's foray and rhrt Amerii an Eagle sets out to liek th?- Mexican buzzard, whereupon soua*1 unusually wise man in Washing-ton diseo\ers that an army cannot carry everything it needs upon the backs of its soldiers. Great consternation! More rushing around until another Solomon rries. "Eureka! Motor trucks' You know, the tilings we are always taxing!" Chorus of approval. While the troops wait, bids are asked for f>4 trucks! Think of it. not trucks, but bids! Wonderful people we are! When the trucks are finally purchased js the army going to man them? F\ii bo it from such! A mere soldier get a job some good voter ran hold down? Well 1 guess not! Not so lone as Washington knows its three It's he won't. No indeed the makers of the trucks must supply the army with the men to run. care for and repair the trucks for which the government will monthly pay each driver $ 100. master mechanic $12"> and truck master $15d. What will happen if for any reason, these civilian employees are killed, quit or are incompetent, the Lord and the Wash narton wiseacres alone know Sure we're the greatest people and tin- richest nation in the world! What do we care how we spend our money Fifty-four trucks just like lltflt What's the couple of hundred thousands of dollars this great army >f motor conveyances will cost amount to r.s? Nothing at all VW- want tli?? real thing in the preparedness line so what's the difference. Down behind the harn though where none of these rocky foreigners can't see ns compare thej "ifty-four trucks which we didn't have, with sr.y the 20,000 motor pars Germany used recently to transport a small portion of iter array in Iter attack on Warsaw, then you and i , :]i know !> nvfcn nrrselves that his eleventh hour preparation and uek purchase by your I In trie Samuel n't such a iM.iicli after all. Soute people are so thick headed 'lilt trying to get even the most elonentury knowledge of an automn?ile into tiicir loads gives them con Mission of the brain. Soon as a man dors something In i atom obi ling thai Is really worth hlle his friends imagine ho is hitnrry md noods a banquet. 10ver tako pari in a dutch Joy rich ? So? Well, if you live in a oily which s big enough for yo.ir neighbors not to know who or what you are. her*is ihe way the thing is worked by those who are nutomobilistK ai heart hi.weve' far the> ire removed from being so in fact The would-be's chip in for a ear for three or four hours' use. earn our.ipunf pitying his or her proportionate share fn, ihe ear's hire, thus I rir.ing invtorinp wthin tie l'oiits ot thai* s'.ei der purses. iViMi it comoj t?? re atv. ?*? ?* some of these d'-ieUo^ ot Lnir-1 v oik tne part whilo othera but to* qlv.n'y how thut motoring ond th*v ?? . cortalnly not on a?\y more Mendly forms than m'Tfljr nodding ucjim.nt ances. It thp 'a?*.t i r\r n w^- oi? usually infii .ioo- > 'e.. on or unlty to show off T >y d.*? -nt thai thfi Rr-j ip car dr* x \ip ir f-oat of m. ' THE LANCASTER NKV 1 v ... ?: A : -! He rode on the observatb I -I- His fleecy staples had j The money was down in -I- No man had an account The mules trotted along and then a big red apple jolte( *; ed back and forth across the ' v A neat bundle over in tl -5? ?ten yards of blue checked g The little bag was full of -! He whistled ?s Pete and F It was near eventide. A west and the sun was cutting | 01 Hit* say. mere were isiitm sea: there were mountains ki: No painter could have made a ' have visited a scene more sph of sluuiherhood. 1 The occupant of the wago The fresh evening breezes There was no enmity In I There was no political am ' There was no sorrow of in poison. -! lie was a plcin country m -! He loved his wife. He love ! his baby. -! He was going home to thei of kindness?a king, tender, th pie gifts to Iris subjects.?Sou a. -y THE HIGH COST OF DISEASE \t its recent session in. New Orleans. April lJ-lfith. tlie Southern Sociological Congress had for its | principal theme the Conservation of Health, and they proposed to inau huioK- > |?? i k 'i i? improve til ** smith's physical and moral health. Knlisted in this campaign will he the leading public officials, ministers, educators. social workers, business men and women of the southern states, assisted by generous philanthropists who see In this work of the congress their opportunity for real service. The reason the Southern Sociological Congress is lighting for the conservation of health is to be found in the following impreosive figures, which are taken from the Southern Cociological Congress" Hnlletin: In the tTnited States an average of 085 babies die every day --2.10.n0b i year. The graves, placed side by side, would make a row more than 125 miles long. There are tiOrt.OUO preventable deaths in the United States every year, or 1,044 every twenty-four hours. A titanic a day! There are 2,000 persons constantly sick in this country This is a loss annually to the nation of over *::.b00.000,00n?enough to hull.! i-u ("duuiiiu camus a year^ At the recent rate at least 5.000000 of the people now living in tl.e United States will die of tuberculosis. Children of healthy parents are rarely ever feeble-minded?yet titer.arp more than 275,OOOidiots and imbeciles in the United States, and the rate is increasing' Malaria, hookworm, typhoid, tuberculosis not diseases, but crimes! HONOIt ItOLI, or TilK MlI.U SCHOOL h'Olt T1IK MONTH OK \ I'HIli, 1IM? Firs! tirade -Julia Adams, tithc-i Knight. Drift'ord neckhatn. Coy Mhafli-v. Hiittie Cook. Dora Kills. Kay Kenninsfton. Juanita Kvans. Loran chapman, Alonzo Dangley. Dee Johnson. William Funderburk. Second Grade?Frank flowers, Gilford, Godfrey. John Ucury Dobson Harrold Harris, Olln McManus. Robert Harris, Krline Harris. Vera Robertson. Deilu Robertson, Plasce Viek Rose Dee Knight. Ida Roll TSeekham. Third Grade Robert Funderburk. Clyde ltelk. Connie Hunter. Counsel Jordan, Bertha Knight. Hattie Mae Caskey, I'lysses Crenrhaw. Jim Walden. Ray King Fourth Grade Dizzie Hell Adams, Roth Phillips. Acnes Sealy, Xancy Wilson. Oscar Funderburk. Dina Whitley. Pearl Ghent, Sidney Mehaffey. Advanced First Grade Howard MehalTey, Willie Harris. Dillie Ghent. S'hyl Dey Mehaffey, Uwson Mallard, Minnie Cook Wade Orr. Ftertha jOuteu. Lola Knight, Pauline Me oanu*. r-i.eeii inveiie, i.iangeuiie Staruffi. Ilnse' Beckham, Clyde Evans Lola San.!tr?. Jay Feuiy. L In Helms, Norafc TanrleT their residence with the loudoet, ongeet, and no<l pe^lst?nt of honka. This to bring the neighbors to the ront windows to see who 1* going joying. And upon returning homo hey want at least fifteen minute* of rigorous chugging of the machine t their door to (mpre*m upon theii neighbors their extreme classiness Tf the chugging can be done at nLgbl jail the bedter as the impress eoughl is sure to b? more lasting. S#; fS MAY 9, 191(>. KING cn platform of a cotton wagon, us. brought twelve cents a pound, his pocket. .1 vainst hiui for a dluie. or r the smooth pavement and now 1 out of a heaping bucket and rollwagon bed. tie corner contained a dress pattern Ingham for the faithful wife. Candy for the baby, leek turned their heads homeward. few clouds had gathered over the strange capers with these billows Is of gold floating in a deep blue ss .J with the colors of the rainbow. Prettier picture: no dreamer could nidid in all the mysterious realm 'ii enjoyed it. w'ere as balm to his brow. lis heart against anyone. nition that had gone unsatisfied. giatitude to stick and sting and ?n. 11?a king wearing a royal crown 'Hightful, affectionate, bearing simthern Woman's Magazine. :* : HONOR ROLL OF THK LANCASTER (iltADKI) SCHOOL FOR MONTH OF Al'ltll I Grade 1.?Katherine Stevens Grace Harper. Sara Craig, Catherine Cook, Francis Culp, Willie LockCrawford. Mary Laney Hunter. Kve lyn Wylle. Rose Williams. Mnrgare Penny, Gwendolen Knight^ Raclie Edwards. Katherine Riddle. Martin Hinson. Sarah Hilton. Thelma Clan ton Etta Rodgers, James Reed Dewey Knight. Mack Hughes. Charl.* Settlemeyer, William Craig. Ha Jones Long. John Drennan. Curt': Hagins, Eugene Clyburn. Grade 2.? T. C. Robinson KvnK-i Robinson, J nines Thouiason. Marioi Sistare. Elliott Mothershed, John P Hunter. Cooper I>avis. Louise Cau tlien. Elsie Rlackinon, I>oris Hilton Francis Williams, Elizabeth Gooch. Grade 3.?Martin Crawford, Leo nard Stowman. Curtis Plyler. Kustac* Morris, Marion Hlanks, J. J. Black nion, Jr.. Frank Drennan, W. C Gregory. Archie Lingle. Eldcridg* Lazenby. Ivy Poovey. Margaret I^ong Oveta Roberts. Blanche Mobley I Mary Donnom Witherspoon. Mar) ; Evans Stover, Mary Scarboro, Rut! Maekey. Irene Poovey. Nannie Le? Piiillips. Elizabeth Lazenbv. Mar) j Maekey Hough, Elizabeth Laney Henrietta Edwards, Lyllian Davit? ' Eugenia Adams, Vandiver Wilson. Grade 4.?Edward Croxton. Wai ter Davis, Emory Penney, Thurlov Carter Thomason, Estelle Dawkins Eugenia Hughes. Beulah Mae Laney Miriam Poliakoff. Jennie Lee Sher ard. I Grade 5. Mary Moore Bennett ! Catherine Carnes. Eva took, Man Agnes Funderburk, Marion Long Gertrude Poliakoff. Dorothy Porter Vfary Evans Riddle. Katherine Sis tare. Ruth Threatt, Martha Vanland inglia.ni, Sara Williams, Eliznbetl Witherspoon. Louise Williams. (\ ,1.. C I...- ? -? ?- . j v....u< i 'i . %*??! m>, * rril uon I son. NT?'d Gregory. Leona Gulp, Mar jorie Hirtich. Liu lie Itoddey. Marl Settlenieyer, Margaret Tliomason. Grade 7. ?Mildred King. Mnrgare Itradford. f'.i-ulali Rurnett, Sar; Plaxco. Gilder Wylle, Eliza Moon Laura Gilbert Williams, Loriei Evans, Lewis Murehlson. Mailelin Gulp. M .?..l Dennett, Mildred Hill ings, Barnwell Allison. James Por ter. J. C. Bowel I. Grade S. Wren Hell, Lily M< Manns, Evelyn Mobley, Floride Pei ry. David Crockett, Walter MrManii* Grade ?Ernest Moore, Mar Ellen Rlarkmon. Mary Elliott Garner Freddie Knight, Lucia Murehison Caroline Porter. Joe Lee Porter. Git Skipper. Helen Williamson. Grade 1 ?. ?Chauncoy Gregorj Toy Gregory. Leigliton Morton. Hole Derrick, Rosalie Ferguson. Paulin Marlon. Ivah Misbet, John K1ui Walter lleaty. Grade 11.?Gladys Blaektnon. .li sle Ferguson. Mary Kirk. lilvprtlsisl Liters for Week End in May ?. t?lfi Kuri Denton. Mrs. /Yhtnella Brawwell. | D E. Hillard. i George A. William*. Mra. Minnie Prence. i .fanle N.*blt. Mia* Oore Mobley. Mrs. Florence Moore. I Wyatte Maaaey. > Mra. Ray H*ger*. Carl Denton. George Bailey, t When calling for above IMtci L plcaaed say Advertiaed. Ja*. F. Hunter. Poet Ma*tc * ? IT ; ' V TUIIUTK OF RKSPWT TO v >1 It. HK1HKN FATTKIISON COXKKDKUATK VKTKK \N j Mr. Reuben Patterson. son of the ;I- late Wily Patterson of Liberty Hl!l was born at Warrnnton. near Uberty Hill. March 1 18.16. (lied of throat paralysis at his plantation not far from liberty Hill, April 21 ll>16. He married Miss Cornelia DeLouch of Cainden, S. (V To them were born five children, viz: Kosio, Wily. Lizzie. James and Kate. The widow and daughters survive. !- His sisters were Mrs. Sophie Mcv Cormlck of Gainesville. Fla.. Mrs. ! A. 1). Jones of Liberty Hill, Mrs. Kebecca Louise McCain of Camden. !- Mrs. Jennie McCain of Camden, all i- of whom predeceased him. An only son of devoted parents, whose position and wealth enabled ' * them to surround him with all social * pleasures and distinctions which en * tered into the ante-bellum life of '* the children of southern planters, an " only brother of loving sisters, eal?" culated to pet and spoil, yet he was unspoiled, and simply made more " gentle and refined by this close asso- j " elation with devoted sisters. Reared in the atmosphere of culture. In- I ' telligenee, refinement and christiani* ty. which surrounded and prevaded "old" Liberty Hill, he was a real gentleman in the original sence of ( thi? word. Modest, courteour. unl? assuming and withal patriot. When bis country called he with the other 1 i. brave Liberty llill boys, who had. ' f as it were, "lain in the roses and fed ( ' on the lilies of life," turned from the - comforts, luxuries and endearments \ ' of home and went boldly forth to J .1 1 meet hardships, cold, hunger, thirst i'and death, and for the few survivors r *: ? what was hardest of all?defeat. The subject of this sketch was s, thrice wounded. At Gettysburg he I II lost his fingers and coolv remarked f " "N'o more plavlne tbo flute now,'' j lie was a fine flutise, and in the old s i davs at home tlie strains from his ., ' t silver flute, mingled with the music y . of the piano bv his sisters and the f. -! violin, etc.. by other musical friends. At Savage Station he was wounded j] in the leg. and at Appomattox Court p - House in the face. He belonged to p the Second South Carolina regiment, j \s long as lie lived and was eon- a * scions he carried the love of the * "Host Cause" in his heart, for many n . yeras attending all reunions of the lj . confederate veterans. lie met with ?i f his old comrads for the last time in I a ' Columbia 1 f? 1 f>. .lust two days pre* t'lrlllu A I hi) I'AitnijiA nl II aaI? 11.11 .j went to a far greater reunion of I veterans "beyond the shining river." |S What a glorious meeting with hlsjd hovhood friends who so proudly wore v -(the grey and so patiently endured j t all the horrors of an unrighteous p war forced upon them. As here and f there our veterans fall out of re-[ union ranks, as this one has done, e and we note the rapidly dimishlng k , number, our hearts are near burst- t r Ing. till we remember that they have v , gone to swell the number of that fl SINCE TAK.1I t , 1 can say my , bowels are much I i more regular. My heart is | stronger. My appetite is y much better. I, jf ? My throat is ? much better. Mrs. William H. Hinchliffe. r- writes: "I have taken four bottl it has done me a great deal of g throat. I recommend Peruna to not think I ever felt much bette work I can do. I do not think * Peruna." Those who object to fluid rn< Tablets. Xfi* r?*d^!o^hip. fOOO b??k?U I Mr model fafm./Scientifically ; f dew Early Triumph, Nan< ! W| Hall Port&vjtico, Georgia 1 \% Promptdplli>vry andaatisfi \js. PERSONALS Mrs. Boswell Plyler .s visiting In Hurtsvllle. Air. J. Harry Foster of Hock Hill was In the city Monday. Mrs. E. C. Young of Chester, is visiting Mis? Beulab Connor. ?o? Mrs. [>. E. Penny spent the past week-end with relatives l!n Abbe- ? ^ ville. Messrs. John D. Wylle and E. Curtis Mackoy spent Sunday in Union. Mr. \V. S. Walker of Wax haw, N. C.. was a business visitor in Lancaster. Saturday ?o? Mr. Lee Slsiure of Clio spent the week-end with relative in this city and at Riverside. Mrs. Ira R. Jones, Sr.. is in Ches ter this week att* nding a house party giveu by Mrs. A. G. . "ice. ??Q Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Sturgis visited relatives in Rork Hilt and York, Saturday and Sunday nOMTNfi. TUT UATOITP ~ ^ ^ * AAXJ XIA Jl X 1J?| CRY OF PEACE .Mrs. J. T. Wobdward of Augusta, Ja.. is visiting Mrs. B. Ciinn'nghnm iml Mrs. W. D. Steele. Mr. and Mrs. E. i.. Williams, Mr. hi. 1). Blakeney and Mr?. Walter Tayor of Kershaw wer?. in town yesterlay. K?dly says a mac want-, what he vants when he wants it. He wants on to call or phone 160 when you vant anything in his line. nighty host of Christian patriots on he other side. Our lamented friend was for many 'ears a near neighbor and as such 'xempliflod in his life the Divine inunction "Do thy neighbor no harm, eeing he dwelleth seemly by thee," nil that companion assertion "L^vo rorketh no ill to his neighbor thvpore love Is the fulfliinp of the lavg.'' He was a faithful churchgoer, icvcr absent from a religious service, inlesH providentially hindered. Amid uimerous reverses, trials and perdexitles. he always seemed "calm nd serene." lie was tlie type of man that could int be estimated at his true worth iy the casual observer. His loved uies Knew 111111 an ne wu antl were II devoted to htm. For several months he had been offering and on Raster morning, he spirit burst its prison bars and oared to fairer realms. As evening xew near, the body, in accordance 1th his request, was laid to rest in he Liberty' Hill cemetery tn tha xese-nce of sorrowing relatives and riends. May Cod be gracious to his bereav d family and may they receive much :indness from those who are true to he memory of the brave soldiers, /ho offered up their lives as a sacr'Ice upon their country's altar. jG PERUNA m T%^P^^H^nBlHHHD 20 Myrtle St., Beverly, Mats., ts of Peruna, and I can say that ood for catarrh of the head and all sufferers with catarrh. I do r. I am really surprised at the too much praise can be said for idicines can now procure Peruna >i hwn* W> y sW. errawn t# erew. Ver$#? $1.50 perlOOO Action *Maw?t#cd. mw s or uU. VahMbWUx V**fTW. '^T^S^SSS^ y 11 ?w\ <? ^^Tru M.OA.