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r-\ >th( . 4 TheLancasterNews ! loz?" , lelv., - others in th the raiders g tjff ,?fl""' ","ukl " " T'8",nce. IJ* The govern "My Country *Ti? of Thoo, 8w?t Land a, firm stand of Liberty/* , . propaganda b Published Tuesday and Friday er8 of the W BY THE zations throu LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY, many places Established 1852. States marsh Entered as Second Class Matter headquarters lotober 7. 1905, at the Postofflce at agencies mal Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- ing correspor fress of March 3. 1879. Thi8 is no tin SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: a ? Samuel Goi (In Advance.) One Year 12.00 | American Fe. 81* Months 1.00 j chairman of 'for Labor a The News is not responsible for the i . .opening of tl views of Correspondents. I neapolis yest< ( Short and rational articles on be our task topics of general interest will be : democratic sp gladly received. [conflict to ou " Icially those o 1 l idil \ , Si | ?t. 1, 1.) 1 /. | combat ?very no matter by SUMMER NEARLY GONE. . . . on, which ter alty and devo The summer months go swiftly by, .. , .... their willing! Editor's note is in bank still, .? . .. nfice for the While hungry sketo is not shy ,, pose. To present its pestering bill; For well "Ed" knows when fall is It was oft due> ,i ^ . . J the 1< ood Adi And silver dew is on the grass, poration won That "due" is on the bank note too. ... . begin to bu But the silver is short, alas! . wheat crop o nzzr. the price of The fall of Riga, though serious, by President does not mean the fall of Russia. yearly price < ^ Chicago mar Vital statistics for Berlin show a previous to large increase in the number of bushel, rang; deaths from tuberculosis. to $2.37 in + yearly price While the Russians flee before the $1.07 per bui Gorman army, the Austrians (lee be- price at $2.2( fore the Italian army. $2.00 per bu . it is hoped \ The threatened strike of the the producer nvi nuivu ill lUC VyUIUIllUlU ? VJ I IVIVJp? |MC?flll U II I of the Southern has been averted, hour and to the trouble having been adjusted. lion of whea that Mr. Hoo The speech of Thomas H. Peeples, flour to drop Attorney General, during the con vention of attorney generals at THE 8CH< Saratoga last Friday, has the right ring. Whi,e the ^ soldiers for t Five hundred of South Carolina's '"dustry are soldier boys were greeted and re- niee! lhp ,mi freshed by the Red Cross Committee ,or intensified on arrival at the Columbia Union | 'IcV. there is Station lust Wednesday. most import* -|- | lor the welf* Oh! that Russia might develop a gathering o commander that would stem the American ch German tide. Where Haig lor Eng- oi the land, land, Retain for France ? ' c ^nd the schc na lor Italy strikes, the Germans | summoning t . give way. ! to the school essential to I The Columbia Record wants to try. The sc know what has become of the old- ing place wh fashioned man who called his fav- true citlzeni ortte loafing place his pie-azza. As teacher shou no one "has a pie" these hard times, zeal to be fa the old-fashioned man here, .lovintr I aiAn sweetness, calls his sitting out place every sacriflc his gal_lery. [ opportunity I should encou The Secretary of War has de- ! in tj,ejr wo cided not to change the order for jj0uj(j be d the mobilization of the negro sol- every task ai diers in the Southern camps. Let i lUnlty in r us hope all will turn out for the! . the schools i best. . and moral 1 . * it .. . permanent s The indications are that the cam. . .. t . ... I depend upon paign for the next Liberty Loan will open about October 1st, and thatj the next offering of bonds will bo three billion. The success of the1 So far as first Liberty Loan was largely due'the Presides to tho newspapers, and Seen t ry P'^ace propos McAdoo so declares. j Allies, but 1 ^ ] manic power T..LI1 - * A*- - I vuuui aoiiia icpicncuiaiive ui me Thcrf* ifl I Flowery Kingdom, Japan, speaks much peace 1 most beautifully and eloquently of war preparai the ideals held in common by Japan and America. If the Poace con Allies would give Japan a free hand the hands o, in China, Japan in return, would no will come v doubt do mighty things for the Al- for peace, lies. A million trained Japs in Rua^ America mui eia would make Oormany take no- resources an tlce. struggle for THE LANCASTER NEW8 F >rman air raid over j THK NATIONAL ARMY. H Monday night killing The first increment of the Nation- * fr TU kets and wounding 80:a( Army, thirty thousand, was call- ^ e naval barracks. and ed to assemble at the various camps + + + 4 ;etting away without. yesterday, to begin training for ser.rouse London to great- vice. Lancaster's instalment was There against such invasions, ten stalwart young men under the Ms command of our townsman Carl * lfty-fl^ iment at last is taking Bennett who boarded the Lancaster So I against the anti-war morning train for Camp Jackson, jjut ^e y the Industrial Work- Columbia. We are proud of these orld and other organl- men and all those who will soon ghout the country. In follow them. They represent the "Whi recently the United flower of the youth of our country, ^ ^ al descended upon the 8elected because of this fitness for KreatIy your m of these Ipestiferous the ardous tasks of soldier life. We cing arrests and seiz- are confident they will give a good , idence and documents, account of themselves wherever! A rat ae to let treason breed, duty calls them, and acquit them, man as * selves as men always. Our hearts; ^*eve gathering forces to' democracy." i I V,1 * ' mendic ltiplied demands caused j + j for by the world wide con- "Procrastination is the thief of time. "Of about to take place the Year after year it steals, till all are I claimet int. of all mobilizations I fled: I the sp< ... . .. ? And to the mercies of a moment I quench tre of the country?the , leaves I?o f Hi,. ? O Allll AAA - ? v..c i-,wu,uv" i The vast concerns of an eternal the me ildren into the schools! scene "Wh The holidays are over At thirty man suspects himself a said th iol bel's v ' c ' i ' ^oo1 "Th< a. i.o i ,w-l(- /. and reforms his that at he youths of America . . . ... plan; hut lif room for the training; jjfty chides his infamous delay. else m the future of the coun- Pushes his prudent purpose to re- Qulc hool-room is the train-' solve; st/>ne; ere the foundations for!1" a" tho magnanimity of thought to reli . . , , , ; Resolves?and re_resolves; then man, i ship are laid. Every i .. dies the same! i tious. i Id be fired with a holy; ?Edward Young. of the ithful to his great mis- water. parent should makejIt.g no ,n titleB( nor ln rank> Awa e to afford his child the It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank, 'orP " for education and To purchase peace and rest; ' . irage teacher and child B 8 no in makin muckle mair; ^ wafl . . . ? . It's no in books; it's no In lear, rk, and every child _ , _ , A the ln i To make us truly blest; t iligent and faithful In jf happiness hae not her Beat pr rat i 111 id embrace every oppor- An' centre in the breaet, . ,,, a . , , . budda, each afforded by the We may be wise, or rich, or great. . I PVPH t and colleges for mental | But never can be b,P8t: , | NTae treaflure8, nor pleaBurea, training. THp nntinn-? " I Could make uh happy lang; I ^ itrength and prosperity The heart's aye the part aye Oree'vc' the school house. That makes us right or wrong." r, . . _ evea II + ?Robert Burns. , BACK IN SIGHT. HOME WIRE FLASHES. Mr press comment indicates! ... " ! Attorn it's reply to the Pope's The 160th anniversary of the North ial la Ip-Me l .h ' >' "f tf-vet'e v.i tie c- , ? offensive to the tier- Mry u,M"l ,1"> Mar"a w*"'h Charl. moved l>ack the Germans from Par8' is, were celebrated in New York and con?ta 10 peace in sight. Too other places on September 6th. Indical talk weakens energy for need < ^lon The retreat of the Russians from itself, Riga Is beset with difficulties. tlon, li ferences now play Into flnftloi f Germany, The time Gen. Alexleff. former commander United /hen Germany will suo in chief of the Russians, declares levylnj but in the meantime that the fal1 of R,*a doe8 not lm" ???rlng . , .. peril Petrograd, whose garrison is aid an \ gat er er g gan c ^ g()od spirits?well disciplined and ed tha d throw them Into the confldent of the safety of the cap-1 be on liberty. ital. ' wltnea MiraWMWi mm V ' r': - *' lipers, president or the and prayers go with ttaom, whether, leratioo of Labor and the training and temptations of j H the American Alliance jcamp life, in the voyage across the Two nd Democracy at tho, ocean, or on the'battle front where nrms s tie conference at Min- they will champion the cause of the jrday, said: "It shall country with dauntless courage and , to interpret America's devotion. earner* irit and purpose in this . i or told r fellow workers, espe-1 HOOSKVKLT l)OMS NOT JIINCK Cot *1? ' Vlnfn f foreign brith, and to WORDS . ' * 1 destina form of propaganda. , . . ! In a recent speech at Chatham, 'had mv which it may be carried ] nri. pai N. J., the strenuous ex_Presideat ids to weaken the loy_ j . , , saidi tion of the masses and "We must have one language? Mam less to strive and sac, the language of the Declaration of rious i nation and its pur- | Independence, of Washington's fare- | on the well address and Lincoln's great | onK'nal * * , _ banks, , , ,, , A, speeches. The leading German pa-| . ? , Icially announced that stress < ? pers of this country have been scan- tn ninistration Grain Cor- 0,11 in ? dalously disloyal to the United 7.on the ild on September 4th, : , , I States and to humanity. I rivers < y and distribute the | i of .^ej ? , ? I "The obscene cruelty and brutal-1 f the United States at I I of land ? ? , . , . iity of the German armies under the $2.20 per bushel, fixed animals explicit direction of the German , oven a Wilson. The average. government have been of such uti-i roots j of No. 1 wheat on the; in ! speakable foulness that it is a crime Iana ket for the, ten years . nn,i iPn , . _ ? against all mankind directly and in- . , 1917, was $1.26 per. i wind. ^ ^. , directly to unhold Germanv: and all I iUK ironi :?ic ill 1 'JU8 ; " "P I who do not heartily back the Unit-, nut to 1917. The average . . led States and the allies of the vorahle paid to producers was \ uiotnnp 'United States against Germany are shel. The fixing of the guilty of this crime, and are disloyal .... ) for the 1917 crop and Why 1 to this country. shel for the 1918 crop "We are fighting for humanity, I ( vill operate liberally to but primarily, we are fighting for our! *'nce , and is intended to heatrtif own country, for safety of America1 easonable advance in i driving ' in the world. We are fighting on encourage the produc-! iiure. the other side of the water so that i on 1 t next year. It Is said we may not have to fight on this i dicant ver expects the price of ... . _ j.ini side of the water. IR rtrlnl about $1.50 per bushel. ; dving 1 "Only the overthrow of the brutal I " _, ?. i Ola and unscrupulous militarism of the j do st H>L MOBILIZATION. Prussianized Germany of the Hohen- i me, no country is mobilizing zollerns will make this world safe j where lie war and all lines of ( either for the United States or for!1 an5 * RIDAY, SEPT. 7, 1917. > ????: INGS AND THINGS. J ____ | Wh Slushy Stanzas. * once was a spinster named iy : ire years of age, if a day. e had money, she did, ' she married a kid, Z can't get her money away. > I Far rrt.l,. v.. ? 1^1... lal mi at is a bachelor, father?" I*l achelor, my son, is a man ljl to be envied. But don't tell t#l Will other I said so." |?1 perl I*] Pa} 1017 Proverbs. |'| otlli in is as old as he feels, a wo- Ijl witl old as she is made up. |*| , , r put off "ill tomorrow the l!J lilt >u can do today. |J| DG11 1:1 ean low Friends Are Made. I?1 pOS women with babies in their ijl *i\V*l at beside each other in a 11*| 1:1 poci one baby mumbled some- Pj V then tlie other until they h?o-11*1 COU' uil friendly. Then one moth- l*l (>j' 1the other how cute the bab>s f#i ^ , 4i f*l not lift togethe/. iljl , re the car had reached th" I*1 Ulll lion of the first woman each I*] YOll ited the other to call.?New. IJ1 v 5le |:| its. Floating Islands. |*i r floating islands have at va- Ijl >eriods been found voyaging I*! Atlantic. Those Islands werelKi ^jl'l llv part of the low lying river Ijl I Si which broke away under l*| A MJ >f storm or flood and floated V sea. The Orinoco, the Ama- J i La Plata and other tropical CH^ aften send forth such pieces V r shores. Rome of the hits y are of large size and carry *< i. insects and vegetation, LVA'X'A'X* t times including trees, the ___ f)f which serve to hold the . .. , . . ? . . unless the eta itact, while their branches ives serve as satis for the ?Pen court, D Generally the waves broalr expression of *e islands shortly after they much an act as sea, taut sometimes under fa-: however appn conditions, thev travel lone , i do not neces? es. J son. Hut it m the River Nerbuddu Was So ,hat the uttei Calletl. writing, of w< An Kast Indian Legend.) and their uttel upon a time. Nerbudda. a v!(,uaI may co ill and pious maiden, was ,l,ing wherebj f her father's cows to pas- heartened in h either to nnil ler way she met a poor men-;01 in the ?PP?' who besought her to give him'inK whereby t of water, as he was nearly j?,ates 's mf with thirst. ; longer, or its dly," said Nerbudda. "would Imore oneroU8~ .... . , ... within the m< >, but I have not a drop with T . . . 'comfort. F r do I know any place nearb> .. . . , , complish that I can get any for you. Oh! ,,, or by method 'ery sorry! 111 r A rno ar\r* >re is water near." said th?. .... . I either written ant, if you are willing to get .,, I much an over j me! . .... ,, a man gets ini course. I am willing, ex-1 , , .. ... . . .of treason the 1 Nerbudda; "only point out , . ... . 1.11 *. ditions will be r?t, and your thirst shall be , . ? I ing whether t G('- . w . . ... , . ing may be i you see yonder stone? asked , ' . . .. . ; have afTorded ndlcant. IA. * .. Ihe enemy, to y yes; anyone can see that, | , , resistance, to 1 e R |f ?n," said the beggar, "lift ?r S" one and you will find water. While the c t it very gently, very slowly. ,a'iOH lul1 car< isfortune may happen." Individuals, kly Nerbudda ran to the huite u aerloui but whether in her anxiety; in tre eve the distress of the poor wor('3 Mr. the was not sufficiently cau- we" for nny no one knows, but the lifting to p,ay dlce stone set free a great mass of conhdes ?1 ting his own y it rushed, carrylnlg all be. blade his w , even poor Nerbudda, for It far to 'niure river, a real river. not pay the p when it became known that in not talt,nK Nerbudda who had released l^e 'aw aKa'ni lprlsoned stream and thus!Hppear8 t? be it fertility to the valley, ln!way ,nto the 1 de the river was named Ner_ tha* there is and so It has been called demand 'or t o the present day. ors "aa 8?on a _______ commence to Mosquito Netting. experience ha quito netting Is an ancient|^ernan<' ar'8e8 If not Egyptian invention (,er 8Uch clrci f It does seem a Yankee idea. aB a mat*e for the proteci TREASON REFINER. there Is no rf W. C. Hammer. United States ceP??n under ey for the western district of Wherefore, M Carolina, has favored The if may befall er with ' n Interpretation by ni'rpr8 of au s Stewart Davison of the law Haved from tli ison, a subject upon which, not des,*r ntly recurring events would ,nal f?Hy." te, some people are much In ,rea80n has b >f enlightenment. The law highly In th? as contained in the constltu- (,ay may be c' n brief. The constitutional de- Public will bi i Is that "treason against the 'eront view States shall consist onlv In "erv?r. X war against them, or in adto their enemies, giving them Sweeden Is d comfort." It is also provid- envoy to fhe t "conviction for treason must view to bette the testimony of at least two in the excha met to tho same 'overt act/ iron ore for , % y Farmers S Keep a Bar r* fi n mtl/\ 1r AAri 11 illt'l d) Cl JL U1C, IVUtJJ XJ iir bank deposit book ipiete record of the le the stubs of their c feet record o fexpense ing a laborer, a store 31* bill with a check is li money because the check must endorse it lg returned to the mal be preserved as a rec ited in a bank is not iy as when carried ket. fe invite every farm* nty to make the experii eeping a bank account pay you. A large mu ners have accounts w k'e pay four per cent 01 wi? m ? m le rirst JNatio LANCASTER, iS. D. JONES, President. E. M. CROXTON, V. arge be confessed in lavison holds that "an , A Ktot opinion is fully as a blow." Mere words. Con nbative of the enemy, Justice larily constitute trea- t',e'r ... , , , anti_A uist be borne in mind , , ? . in this ranee, orally or in . , * tween ards is an overt act, . . . shown ranee by a given indi- ... lloldir nstitute treason. Any... an(1 a ' the enemy will b*> ? , such . is conflict, encouraged ? ce further opposition. ... . . enemy imon ne may do maathe task of the Unlt_ money A t ide the greater, or the i warlike efTort the ' e * ?would be embraced )0a,ln >aning of the pharae, 'a8,Kn 'or knowingly to ac- tj?88? result in any manner ' n is beyond peradven- over"n The utterance of par'^H or spoken words is as un*tno or tlii let as is a deed. When to court on the cmint " p,'?' test of modern con- ?,mn< ( rich i applied In determinhe speaking or writ- r reasonably deemed to 1''n'mt aid and comfort to " have encouraged h's ' n,ar'ts have heartened his ef- ! p,clon ] lowed | prison onstitution apparently death, i to guard the rights medic it Is nevertheless Hia p, n matter to become pendk ason charges. In the m0us Davison. It may be dental one "who may desire aj*ouni with death?to shave prPnci ! eternity without cut- often throat through the funct ft slipping an Inch too that's this country and yet gou enalty," to be careful j? s chances in court with war j it treason. Davison fling i i looking but a little nlgo t] future when he warns for pfl sure to be a popular pro.Q, he execution of trait- jugt ( s the lives of our men jy jov be taken." He says tlon , s shown that such a, pays i in every country un. alj ve imstances "being urg- man r of common pru/lence tion of the lands," and Hag t ason to expect an ex- ed |nt coming conditions, ( r. Davison apprehends prate that "all of the ad- frnnJ itocracy may not be gincpr ie results of what can J lnK jT iatea tnelr own crlm- cumfo So far the hazard of BOrtm een regarded only too the e ? United States. The "Roni r>mlng when a careless e brought Into a dlf- roNI of It.?Charlotte Ob- Loi celvet ture arranging to send an Oabrl United States with a ers, r commercial relations The 1 age especially of her chain American coal. Gorlz _7 hould ik Account I w f 10 book accounts. J ' affords them a J ii> nocVi ronpinfa II V.MOU X vvv*jk/vwj V0 heck book are a s and payments. J account, or any J much safer than J person receiving > ;, and the check, ier by the bank, eipt. Money de- ; so easily fooled around in one's : 3i' in Lancaster nent for one year and sec if it docs inber of our best 'j ith us, why not v V V 1 Savings Depos- J inal Bank \ s. c. : V , Pres. and Cashier. > SEDITIOUS JOURNALS. y From France Willi a Moral For Us. servative minds, anxious to do > though the heavens fall, have own peculiar attitude toward tnerican and pacifist journals i country. The distinction bethe two classes can be clearly by accompished hair-splitters^ ig to the rigths of free speech^ free press, they assume that journals are in error, but go ther. The idea that they are agencies supported bv enemv is tossed lightly aside, ale from France, and that in lird year of the war, has its g on this indulgent view. Aln iflcant Paris sheet suddenly med out. Formerly anarchlsits tendencies, it changed ight to a policy of pronounced m. From a comparatively wn newspaper, it gained pow ough the employment of exnal talent at great cost. Those liately connected with it grew One of its directors made to Switzerland?fifteen, it Is d, in a single year?where he ed checks totaling 500,000 from a German banker. Suswas aroused, clews were foland th ehead editor went to There he died a natural according to the verdict of al experts, due to "hemopty. jruieni peruonms, cnronlc ap:itls, acute gastritis and enorabusc of morphine." Inclly, there was a red furrow 1 the unfortunate's neck. The h minister of the Interior, who received visits from the deeditor, has since resigned, t about all. nds a bit "Frenchy," eh? But i revival of the old before-the''renchlness. France Isn't trlnow. It is to be remembered hat enemy money was lavished iclflst outgivings only. Nothing erman or that sort of thing, he soft pedal, a bit of brother. e stuff here and there, a quesof whether the horrid war after all?all very sweet and ry weakening, backed by Oercapltal. k about our own pacifist presa? he American government look:o their antecedents, their conheir visible means of support? rnal emotions alone shrink the thought that one of the e expositors of paclflit <*.,otorI this countrv utinnM nun* ??. to such a miscellaneous asent of diseases aa carried off steemed Almeyreda of the let RouKe."?-Washington Poat IRMKD ITALIAN 81T/TO8 idon, Sept. 5.?A dispatch re- y 1 in London confirms the capby the Italians on Mont San ele, together with 950 prisonIncluding thirty-two officers. Italians now possess the entire of mountains which dominate la.