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r* m , CR|p Cmtraatrr Npuib (SEMI-WEEKLY.) rUBI.ishers' annoomceiibnt Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The Ledger, established 1862; The Review, established 1878; Tbe enterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1906, at tbe postofflce at Lancaster. s. c.. under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION" P ICE: (In Advance One Year #1.50 Six Months 75c "Let reverence fo laws be breathed by every American lnother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lao; let It be taught In schools. 11 seminaries and colleges; let It be written In primers, spelling books and almanacs; let It be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced lu courts of Just'ce. And In short, let It become the poltlcal religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and th poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon Its altars." FRIDAY. DEC. 8. 1916. We are glad that our farmers are ' 4>eginning to plant grain to the extent that prevails this fall. o There is vet time to so'.v grain, clover and grasses. The favorable weather will not last always. o No town has better paved sidewalks than Lancaster. We have ' reason to be proud of this ass-1. How lone will it be before the countries of the old world are satis tied with shedding each other's blood ? o The stores are full of Christmas ?r?da o: the very best quality but the , old advice. "Shop early." is as applica ble this >ear as heretofore. The way the express man on the incoming trains is putting off packages of liquor, it would appear that everybody, nearly, is getting read; for Christmas. Few towns this size have so few houses to rent. We should buidd more homes for newcomers that no- , body will be forced to turn to another tow n in search of a home. The soldier boys of the First Regiment. S. C. Volunteers, are doubtless glad to get back home, after their three months stay on the border. Th< Capital City pave them a royal wel come. i o The farmer who has to pay $1.5", a bushel for corn, $10 a barrel for flour and 25 cents a pound for meat next fall, will have only himself to blame?and yet if the world war continue* until then, which doubtless ii will, sueh prices may prevail. We won't say we want it so, but wouldn't t be to the interest of the farmer for cotton to go down to something like in cent:- a pound be fore planting time. With 20 ee-'ts for cotton the danger is that it will supplant other crops more necessary to the fanner. o We have not enough shade trees. There are several residential streets which could be vastly beautified by .planting a row of trees along the sidewalks. It takes some time to grow a really beautiful tree, so the Civic League or other agency should be up and doing. o The trial of the white men at York , charged with the murder of the brave and lamented Sheriff Hood of Fairfield county, pro' fed to be as was generally expected. a farce. The public conscience will have to be enlightened very much more before lynchers can be brought to justice. ??o The new telephone system woulci be acceptable as a Christmas gift. We wonder how long before the sys-' teni will be in operation. Why can't we start the new year right and noi be forced to lose our temper wh< n-1 ever we have to use the telephonesi Our patience has already been tried, overlong. o Greater respect for law and order and the education of all our people would make this a safer, happier and better commonwealth. So long as offenders go unpunished and so long a part of tbe population 01 South Carolina is left In Ignorance, we cannot hope for a desirable statn of affairs. TE liAVD A c;oon INVESTMENT. ! I The late Samuel Wittkowsky who < was an enthusiast on the matter of t real estate increasing in value, as i the years go by. and who did so much \ to get the Building and Loan asso- 1 ciations of -North Carolina into successful operation, was once asked if he believed that land would decrease in value. His reply was char- 1 artpriatir Said hp* "Hnu- ran it 5 do so. When the Lord was in the < business of creating things He| brought into existence just so much land, and with only one pair of human beings. Adera and Eve. to possess it. No more land has been, or will be. created since, but just think of the teeming millions of creatures that now occupy the earth, and still they come." t The Columbia State is evidently ot the opinion that land will not decrease in value, judg ng from its ut- j terance of yesterday as follows: t Regardless of the boll weevil, lands in South Carolina, despite periods of temporary depression, will steadily increase in value. In our opinion, the average ac-e of land not the acre that produces a bale of cotton or two bales and is near to a town, has not increased in price so much in the last 2<) yea-s as it .-houla have increased even if there had been no other factor in the equation than increase in the numbers of the people. The population of continental I'nited States is now estimated to be 102.826.309. * THE < OMMIMTV LIFT. The people of Lancaster are charitably inclined and we are. therefore, going to appeal to tliein to make a gift to the little children who will otherwise miss the joy of Christmas. We are appealing for a community Christmas tree, to be set up in a central place, brilliantly lighted by electricity and laden with gifts for many little boys and girls. The g ts need not be expensive, for those to whom they would be given. hav?? not been spoiled by over-indulgence and l j (he simplest toy nuld nb t' ;t. The idea !~ not to shower ; ny child t with gifts t?ut rather to make the, tree itself and the little remembrances on it. serve to show th it no ? child n out midst has been forgot- I ten. for the Christ-ih Id a:..> to lii< I earth to bless every lit tit life. After some individual or organization has| taken the lead, after a certain amount has been subscribed bv the 1 liberal citizens of the town, even the ' children will be glad to help. Thf> may be taught the beautiful old I carols, that should be sung around! the tree and many will make gifts to other b' ys and g ". !s. Svch a spirit | is good tor the children even as it is Rood for their elders. It helps us all to think of and to seive others i. And then consider the genuine hap j pine.sb we oul?! th t bring homes less favored th n T'.in of th" hearts we could gladden by means of this tree. which every hild for whom it is g ven. would i cherish as his ver\ own. perir-ps th" I only one ever lighted for him. I'.ut i best of all we should find that the t hearts of it- donors, busy men me! | women, had been touched ar.el softened by their thought of oth<rwhich can only result in good, hie* s?g "him that gives arid him that i takes." 1 At this glad season, then. when I the members of our families are ; planning rich Kills the one for the i other, let us not forget our neigh- i bor to whom Christmas means so a ?^fcjELgj SBH^H^^Bp^^xSSfY ^vjS ">_. m ^H(.i "A4ir. " Ik9k^km9R*V*^^??^VS.It * i a==/p%, ^ "1111 f(1o^LWKt'zW>CK PIC Don't Fail to See the Hiji the Star Saltirdiyy and Mr tE LANCASTER NEWS F little. Let's give them a genuine :elebi ation. a big. glowing Christmas :ree. lighted from top to,bottom ana llled with gifts of every kind. The >ery sight of the beautiful spectacle sill bless us. every one. 1VTKNS1YK METHOIXS. The Valdosta ttla ? Times believes is every farmer should, in the intensive method of farming. In a recent editorial it hos this to say: It is supposed to be discreditable :o the United States that our acre field of important crops is consideiblv less than that of other highly civilized countries such as England Prunoo 1 n J P.ormnnv Vc >' fact, it ha? not been discreditable n the past but will be in the future f the art of inteusive farming shoulti lot become as highly developed in bis country as Europe. In the past the difference in condtions fully justified our farmers netliod? to cultivate large tracts more or less carelessly than to cover ess ground in the painstaking in ensive manner: and. as our farmers rave produced as abundantly as here was any need of. there ha? teen rn good reason for complaining >f their methods. Until now, therefore, it has been tointless to talk of discredit and not vorth while to call attention to the act that our avevaee y?eld of what ras been scarcely 15 bushels to the ore while that of several crowded European countries has been more han .10 bushels, that our oat aver ige has been 30 bushels while that ?f Europe has been 50 bushels, or hat our potato yield has boon about <5 bushels while that of Germany, or example, has been about 200 ushels. Mut in the future* the conlitions here will have changed: our ountry also Will be crowded, all our anils will he taken up, and the denends of out enormous population ' ill necessitate intensive fanning. Already the conditions are changng and it is high time for our agrinit urists to begin the study of ine tsive methods. The time is enmn?r when our soil, acne for acre, must >c made to produce ts abundantly as he soil of Europe. + j 9^11 From Other Papers sb \i?t I.nrkiiur in \*ow that the season is over it may not be amiss to wonder how some olleges have the nerve to put out 'ootlall teams. Greenwood Journal. \olM?d> Guilty! She ill I loud a.id h d p.My shot 10 death in limit of the Fairfield ourt house and y< t two York eoun!y juries nob dy :> 'ty. ant' he slave, s . re tu nod ! > absolutey free m n. Camden Chroniele. Good For ( herokoe. Cherokee's yrrnd jury reeommended that Cherokee's representatives in the k" eral assembly support a compulse" y ducc'ion law. which, to our mi; d. is making proni ess. GafTiey l."dt.er. \ Hare Climate. It has been man" >enrs since the P'edntont "-'Ttion has had -u h a deit-htful ext"i? 'on *i: Indian Summer, ut truth to te||. we h: ve e vidence ill the time that the Piedmont climate is the i<? ;-t in the world, year in and year out. Charlotte Obicrver. 7 Part Super Feature at ?:;y !' ?< . !>(h and 11 ill. RIDAY, DEC. 8, 1916. Most I-Ire an<l I/earn. The college professor who says love an illusion must be one of > those skeptical people who never be1 lieves a raule will kick until they have twisted his tail.?-News and Courier. Uneasy. There are a number of politicians ir South Carolina who would like to know whether or not Hon. B. It. ' Tillman has changed his mind about ' retiring from the senate of the United States at the end of his present term. They fear he has.?Spartan burg Herald. Praises Christmas Clubs. The greatest thing that has been (tnr.o fnr the nnnnlo nf fVi i rnntitrv in 1 a long time was starting up the Christmas saving clubs. More people have had a happy Christmas and a glad new year on account of that 1 practice of thrift, than through any. thing that we know of.-?Florence Times. t To l)i!>rnsH Xosled Legislation. ' The Colleton county delegation ha-; called a meeting of the people of the 'county on salesdav to discus? needed :; legislation. This would be a good , thing for every county, as this is get; ting to he no longer a government b> representation. but by messenger boy service, according to the views of some voters.?Columbia Record. * CHRISTMAS OVK.R SKAS. As the season of joy and gladness draws near, in a land that is blessed with peace and an abundance of material blessings, it behooves us to re- j j member those across the sea on whom the misfortunes of war have iso heavily settled. The various American committees for the relief of the war sufferers are nf course sending out their old appeals for this Christmas, and as th s !s the third Christmas of the war there is some danger of our growing callous to the appeal and failing to respond as liberally as we have before. This is, of course, human nature. but let us make a special effort to remember that the area of suffering has increased and our help Is . reeded this year also.?Greenville Piedmont. Roll Weevil Conference. The boll weevil conference which is to he held at Fairfax. Barnwell i county, on December 11 ought to he largely attended by the farmers and bankers and merchants of that sec-1 tion of the State. This is the part of South Carolina in which, in all human probability, the weevil will gain i a footing first Fpon the extent to I 1 which the work of preparing for the weevil's coming can he carried dur-j ing the next two years will depend the amount of injury which the pest j will cause. We are fortunate in this. State in having a man like Dr. W. , i?ong 10 lean in inn pians lor inej now agriculture. The policies which' he will advocate have been carefully matured and the sooner they can be! considered by those whom they are' designated to benefit the better. The Fairfax conference should have far-j reaching consequences. -News and j Courier. > vvv* I Fifty Dc 1 Best Yield el V ________ | To encourage the Faj 1 offer for the season of 191* X Yield Of Wheat of THRU |X Wheat: t f First Prize: For la Second Prize: Seeon ^ Third Prize: Third Fourth Prize: Fourt ii & The prizes will be av ^ mo/ln Ki?* o OA?Yiinl ff on nf r 11KHH IM <4 \yW|| III I I I vV V_? V 4 * ( Farmers desiring to e i March 1st, 1917. V X Nov. 15, 1916. x FARMERS M j ' )? I I I Wheels In My Head I* t J t t = f A A *t* And they are running smooth so oil your wheels % Y and come to see me. All kinds of wheels for ? X Xmas. Bicycles, Tricycles, Irish Mails, Automobiles, ? Kiddie Kars, and Boy Wagons of all sizes and all *t* A prices. $ . v i $ i * Santa Ciaus has been engaged for the ? ' entire time for Xmas and he can supply your wants, Y < You will find at Mackorell's, cheap toys, good toys and the best toys. You ought to be able to get ? suited from this assortment. Remember the big *? thing about the toys is that the price has not adX vanced, just think you can buy them as cheap as X X yon did when cotton was seven cents. Now come X v and make the children's heart glad for once in a Y ? year's time for there will be money when you are X > dead and gone. f t i T ' X | EVERYBODY'S RIDING THESE DAYS 3E Y Y = t Y J Y So come and buy a Bicycle and ride, for you can % X pay for it while you are riding. % } f > X If you think that you can get what you % X want at Mackorell's just ask for it and you will see. % X 11 > - * X Now you old men come buy something for % 4 the old lady. Did you know that it was against the % 4 law to make the Eagle squeal in the month of 4 December, so don't hold the dollar so tight. % ? ============ | J. B. MACKORELLl | The Santa Claus Man. hilars In Prizes! OFFERED FOR I /heat on Three Acres of Land f \ =========== 2 rmers of Lancaster County to raise more Wheat we 'f 6-1917 the following CASH PRIZES for the Largest E ACRES on measured land in one body sown in ? rgest yield $20.00 Y d largest yield $15.00 Y largest yield $10.00 Y h largest yield $ 5.00 ? yarded after duly 1st, 1917, and the award will be X lisinterested farmers to be selected. liter the contest will kindly notify us not later than J 0 ^ iNK & TRUST COMPANY f W. II. MILLEN, Cashier. X