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I TheLancasterNews LancMter, 8. C. < SKMI-W KKKL, Y.) I Hy Country 'Tin of Th??, 8wnI Land y, of Libarty.'* ** |j 9; Published Tuesday and Friday ' BY. THE 7 LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. E.NUIUI1NI10U l(K>a. GEORGE BUI/LA CRAVEN Editor and Manager Entered as Second Class Matter lotober 7. 1901$, at the Postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) One Year 12.00 81* Months 1.00 ?????? The News is not responsible for the views of Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics of general Interest will be gladly received. m Friday, Oct. 2(?, 15)17. Well, it was once Buy a Bale, and now the worm has turned. ?.? Next week Concord. North Caio Una. will get on the map again. . The trouble about a sugar famine is that it means coffee will go, too. + I Now we look back and wonder how Von UernstorfT ever got by with * ? It was ever thus?Sunday is not a day for moving pictures. That's all. + Ilt's now up to Greenville to start something?Spartanburg is to have q weather bureau. It is yet a fact that Senator Till man, even in feeble health, can beat most any average man. + At any rate, under the classification system, a man can see where he stands without asking anybody. Charleston evidently is a sickly sort of place, judged by the report that 863 whiskey permits were granted last week. ?*? Of course the fact that Doc Cook is on a Lyceum lecture tour had nothing to do with that assassination story. ? ? The governor of North Carolina I might now remark to the governor of South Carolina: "Heen sick lately?" f + Elsewhere in this paper is printed , a list of subscribers to the Liberty I Loan of 1!>17. That's an "honor, roll" worth while. Is your name' there? + The finding of 10.000,000 pounds 1 of sugar concealed in warehouses in , Buffalo ought to he consoling to Mr. j Hoover?and to numberless housewives. + The tenure of olliee of one Michaelis will remind one of the telegram Finnegen sent when his train was derailed: "Off again, on again, gone again, Finnegen." + We notice there is some opposition to sending cigarettes to the soldiers in France, but if smoking cigarettes is the worst thing a soldier does, he's safe. + Nat Goodwin, the Greensboro News tells us, is rehearsing a play, "Why Marry?" The last time we counted Nat's matrimonial ventures, the total number was five. He ought to know. + Among the war's inconveniences, the Spartanburg Journal bemoans the fact that they're to have no circus In that town this year. And we have been led to believe that it was circus day every day in Spartan T LAST CALL. ' ' as i The Liberty Bond campaign closes sc ! Saturday. An opportunity to aid ' *>u the government and back up the .fu Iwl boys who will go in the trenches I jsoi will have passed. What have you'te] done? fo) I It is not only the duty of every man to loan his money to the gov- do ernment; not only a'sound business proposition, but it ought to be the wi pleasure of every "citizen not in act- be< ual service to contribute his part by <ii( buying a bond?large or small. Int Every dollar will count?a $50 me bond will provide clothes and arms ma for one American soldier. Most of everyone can buy a $50 bond. If Soi you haven't the money, borrow It vei from your bank. tlo Lancaster county's quota Is $216,- edi 000; of this something near $150,- tor 000 has been subscribed, leaving BU) $75,000 to be raised today and to- KO< morrow. Lancaster county will tra come up to expectations, and theiars amount will be fully subscribed, but mu 1 every man should help to attain this j result. The time is short?you must *1'n What are you going to do about e8t it? reg * LaKOLLKTTK. put int< The senate committee investlgat- par ing the conduct of Senator LaFol. Til) lette will make a report of its findirgs when the body meets in Decern- 1 ber. Whether this report will result in the expulsion of the Wis- ' consin senator, of course, is a mat- no1 tf-r of ( nnip(>liirp Hn? ihai .. i.?. - 6rt; paid in full for his efforts in trying J im>] to make the war unpopular and|trai trying to undermine the ability of ^ the government to finance it. Is not inov doubted. ' |unt o I Senator Simmons, of North Carol^ib lina, has written a letter, which has . . d ra been given publicity, stating his a I views on the matter, and the followj It's ing is the concluding paragraph: gov "The senate has not been unmindcar: tul of the course of Senator LaFollette. A committee of that body is 'en< now investigating his conduct and it ban will, I assume, report- the result of T its deliberations when the senate will meets early in December. Of course me| I do* not know what this committee con: will report. I have seen it stated in the papers that they would probably report a resolution of censure, fert I do not myself believe the commit- patl tee will content itself with a mere con resolution of censure. Hut if it does, it will be within the province of I he senate to refer the report ^'OI back to the committee with instruc- or i tions to report a resolution of ex- i pulsion. Personally, unless some. ^ thing occurs to change my mind. Ii shall Yavor such a course." mu' We have not seen the specific ')aJ charges against the Wisconsin senator, hut if he Is guilty of obstructing, ,?r attempting to obstruct, the .ptj( war machinery of this country, ex- / pulsion . from the senate would I hardly be adequate to meet the ends of justice, and a resolution of con- ' Am sure would be little more than , "whitewash." j , Cm NOT A TIME EOlt CHANGES. Am The fewer political changes that take place while the country is at > war the better it will be. We hear 1 a lot these days about establishing a "one-man-power" and few men in ' An America would favor any such ; policy, yet, it would be unwise under present conditions to elect even a ' A rt | new president. We say this as preface to some remarks about Senator Tillman and the campaign next C) i j year. Senator Tillman has proven him- O self a very able man In the United Yp States senate; he Is at the head of one of the most important commit- . A n | tees; his usefulness, not alone to South Carolina, but to the nation, Nf has been demonstrated many times, ' and It would be the worst kind of folly to replace him with an inexperienced man. The fact that he im made the statement two years ago ? 1&1 that he would not again be a candidate is of only passing interest CO and were he to stick to that asser. ? mi tion, he should be Induced to make the race, if possible?-"conscripted," aj( ?HE LANCASTER SKWH . the popular expression goes. j + Rotation in office is a good policy ; far as It was ever intended to go, * t it was never Intended to go any rther than to replace a bad man ten he drifted Into public office In Y Q me unaccountable way. The one- . lc *m plank In the democratic platrm didn't flt and was taken out. g| Senator Tillman's opponents are ubtless going to wage a bitter le mpaign against him, but he will n. The newspapers, which have M en discussing the matter, and the gi icussion has assumed wldesDread j. ui erest. are divided in their senti- ai int. it is true, but we believe tbe Q' ijority of those we see are in favor In the senator making the race. ^ me of those which oppose him are [>, -y pronounced in their opposln. The York News, in a column torial article, criticizes the senator many things, carefully (1 c lrding against the mention of any Wi >d he has ever done, but In condiction of the greater part of its sii ;ument, the York paper says: "He st have made a good United a ites senator to have established >(' nself so firmly in the respect and sa eem of his fellow senators without ard to party line." ( The time has come to elect men to >lic office who will best serve the I erests of the nation, and in this by ticular case, the man is Senator1 (man. I "s I AY WITH l.lltKltTY BONOS. | ! ni Many business houses have an- ru inced that they will receive Liby Bonds as payment of bills. This '1U ki< ans that the bonds will have a [ling value the same as currency. t 1 can put you?- money in the bank to v and draw four per cent interest il you need it next spring. tut better still, you can buy a erty Bond today or tomorrow. w four per cent interest and pay ^ >ill with the bonds next spring. the same thing to you, but the th eminent needs the money to ry on the war and invites you to 1 it at the same interest rate the jj k pays. , ru " he farmer readers of this paper I be interested in the announce- th; at that the Congaree Fertilizer ipany, of Columbia, will accept ?n fu erty Bonds in full payment of au ilizer bills next spring. This is a rtntlc innvo nn - - -* - -1 - uu tuc pan u 1 llie u* If ipany, and yet a sound business sic cy. No doubt other concerns fr( 11 which the farmer buys supplies machinery will do likewise. sa <iberty Bonds are much better wi n idle cash?the interest accu_ s" lates regularly, and idle cash s no dividends. * ><?\v I l,ay Me Down to Sleep. sf) a ' fire on the earth is low, Vnd there Is stillness everywhere-j j{> ,ike troubled spirits, here and f0 there ? firelight shadows fluttering go, I as the shadows round me creep, V childish treble breaks the gloom Vnd softly from a further room cr lies, "Now 1 law nie down to up sleep." so ca d, somehow, with that little prayer Vnd that sweet treble in my ears. Vly thought goes back to distant years, * sa <1 lingers with a dear one there; d as I hear the child's Amen, My mother's faith comes back to h' l\t rrouohed at her side I seem to be, d mother holds my hands Again. m ci for an hour in that dear place! "1 0 for the peace of that dear time! f) for that childish trust sublime! for a glimpse of mother's face! > I t. as the shadows round me creep, nl 1 do not seem to be alone? I Sweet magic of that treble tone j id "Now I lay me down to sleep." ,c ?Eugene Field. ni tl ? HUNDAV MOVIES FOB TIIK CAMP JACKSON BOYS " i r/ Columbia, Oct. 25.?By an unan_i ous vote of the members present, j ,( >lumbia city council, at Its regur meeting this morning, refused' e request of Major Oen. L. Bailey, mmander of Camp Jackson, that atlon pictures be allowed to be ai own in the various Columbia thesrs on Sunday afternoons. t< FRIDAY, OCT. 26, 1917. WIHJK AND OTH?RWME. + Not Always. "Ambassador Gerard," said a New ork broker, "had a happy way in erlln of chaffing the great war ej irds and dictators. bl "A grand duke said to the ambasldor at a reception: "Germany will win the war. Then it America look out. "How will Germany win? said ^ [r. Gerard, calmly. f ^ "With her submarines, with her r? ises and above all, said the grand like, with perseverance. Perseverice, Mr. Ambassador, always confers. B; "Always," said Mr. Gerard, winkg at his second secretary. "How >out the hen on the china egg?"? etroit Free Press. re ' at Politeness Pays. L( (From the Boston Transcript.) sl n "Now, Willie, supposing you acciintally stepped on a man's foot, hat would you say?" "I would say, 'Beg your pardon, r . .. , "And If tlie gentleman gave you dime for being polite, what would Wl u do?" to "I would step on the other and ca y, 'Beg your pardon," again." a Why Is It? th From the Boston Transcript.) co That a legless man can "put his T) Ot in it?" a*i That persons who are "consumed ur curiosity" still survive? 8'( That frequently a sinking fund is aP ed to meet a floating debt? er That straining the voice is not the K? oper way to make it clearer? t'li That we speak of a stream runng dry when the only way It can Pr n Is wet? That wives should expect their ishands to foot the hills without rking? That we talk of some one "going ^ ralght to the devil" when he has j)0 he crooked to go there? ' Se sic Husband's Soft Answer. iei (Philadelphia Inquirer.) ha She was waiting for him. in Gathering her brow like gather- th g storm, nursing her wrath to | da an j t ira rm a tirl ivhan l,n nrlnrrt.l I Ct V|/ IV M ui III, nuti n iicu UC caul CU | p room she began: | an "This is a nice time or night?" I "I?er?know I'm late," he hastl- an interrupted, "but I'couldn't help ar my dear. Club had?er?-big dis- m< ssion on female beauty." so "And what had you to do with at?" demanded the fretful wife. eil "More'n anyone there. I was the ap e?er?-who had the most beautii wife, and'?er?course, the best W{ thority on female beauty, an?" ze "Why don't you take off your gc ercoat, Henry? Let me get your ppers for you. It's awful cold outle; I think you must be half izen." Half a minute later Henry was fely ensconced in his easy chair co th his wife at his feet putting his ppers on. nit . sa Mutual Astonishment. ] ha (Fulton. Mo.. Gazette. i tn wnen j. it. um or ueafiaville i " imbled as ho was walking through av part of his railway country farmj^u e other morning and stopped on a ru x ho was as much surprised as the|('e x. he oa Definition of True Lent leiiirn. ro (Kansas City Star.) Lord Chesterfield had his own rn ude ideas about what a gentleman ould be, but Frank Fiest of Atchl- ar ha n says a gentleman la a man who n play a cornet but won't. go Terrible Mistake. 86 (Philadelphia Ledger.) w, "Halloa, Brown," said Jones. "I .w your wife this morning. By ftr >ve, that new coat of hers must ive cost a lot of money. You're >ing specially well at present?" "No, not exactly." replied Brown rfl oodlly. "Fact is, she got it by ac_ ^ dent." ~ ^ "By accident!" exclaimed Jones. rf flow was that?" \J{ "Well, old fellow. It was this way: di got home rather late the other ai Ight. The hall was very dark, butj cl could Just distinguish a figure si nnding by the chair, I slipped up 01 ? her, put my arm around her waist y< ad whispered, 'Mary, give your lit- w e boy a kiss.' " Is "But?but," stammered Jones, ai I thought your wife's name was pi ate?" "It is," murmured Brown; q that's how sire got the coat." I, r< A Firm Reply. 0 (Topeka Journal.) d Wife?You know, Henry, I speak h s I think. fi Husband?Yes, my love; only of- b in sr. - b HCUMOIW AND PASTE. + A Financier.; . (Spartanburg Journal.) 1 r are A man able to sell cheap Mquor at UQt ?ht dollars per quart is not a we lind-tiger. He is a high financier. (jeE 1 ha Two Kind* of Devils. .of (Newark Evening News.) Dre It waft a proud day for the prlnir's trade when two men who had ? Y 6t ien apprentice boys in a composing 10m presented themselves before ? le bar of the United States 8enate i be sworn in as members. They ere Jeter C. Pritchard and Marion y utler, both of North Carolina. "OB But "I didn't know you could make a par nator out of a 'devil.* " Jocularly t)nd marked David B. Hill, then a sen- can( or from New \ork. a n "Oh. yes." retorted Senator tun >dge. "the transition is a natural s id easy one?on your side of the uan iuse." hav ell'i Professional. the (Argonaut.) his One morning when Rufus Choate is still in England his clerk in- ,! rmed him that a gentleman had twe lied and wanted him to undertake Gov case. "Ah! and did you collect Mlt< e regular retaining fee?" "I only irre llected twenty-five guineas, sir." ?e regular fee was fifty guineas. nn(^ d Mr. Choate said: "But that was an<* [professional; yes, very unprofes- 1 >nal!" "But, sir," said the clerk, of oiogeucaiiy, ana anxious to exon- in,l< ate himself from the charge. "I r t all he had." "Ah!" said Mr. loate, with a different expression. Inan hat was professional; yes, quite ^',e ofesslonal." try Who's Who? paiR deni (Columbia State. ^an Whether or not Senator .Tillman pen( all he so generally called upon to gtan a candidate for the United States (udr nate again that he would recon- t ler his declaration that he would yQu tire at the end of hts present term ; own s been projected as an issue and. tect the liveliness of the discussion. i.eei e names of other possible candi- The tea have not been mentioned. Una ill, they are possible, though they ij(,u d their admirers ave very still. erst Perhaps no one would "conscript" L.ik< y other candidate and all of them Jon? e expected to wade in of their own 191! jtion?"under their own power," pici< to say. of ( One thing is significant: There is her a widespread affection for or cam prehension of Senator Tillman on aorn b part of aspiring citizens?who '^at mid otherwise be perspiring citi- 8Uaf ns next summer. Who's who in t,rel uth Carolina? ^ mer Fall Work for Roads. der (Southern Good Roads.) Our Winter is approaching and with it m,Ifl e critical time for the roads of the lat,! untry. More especially is this 'n,e lie of many of our Southern com- r'K'1 unities that have built topsoil and *?'c nd clay roads. Nearly all of these vp been subject to a heavy motor|hftai ifTic during the past summer and jhea< uch material has been carried. K??' . ay at places, while at others thoinien isty condition has produced liu.*., ts. The winter rains will fill these am' pressions with water and the "lat avy wagon traffic will cut through (Mltl sily. On most of our Southern 0,)' 1 II ads the wagon traffic is heavier in nter than in summer, and our far- to 1 ers have not yet learned that it >ya them to use broad tires. They par? e going to go on just like they part ive been, by putting a four-horse urK< ad on a two horse wagon upon a n,t*1 ?od road and cutting through until, wou e road becomes impassable. It som omfl impossible t<^ Impress folks >oai ho do such things with their folly. pu^ The only thing to be done is to try id prevent the damage by going to ^ ork on the roads with a vengeance >w and get them In the best possi-' g e shape. Drag after every kin and resurface the spots where1| froI ie material has become thin. S^'that mt the nine tree thurit. la nff ll>? ? w.w l|nR >ada where they are apt to be bad. ook after the side ditches and cross "alnn now. Unless such measures e taken we are going to hear pro- i aimed to the world again the ab. jnt< >lute failure of these roads, the an ily kind some of our counties can jnR ?t afTord: If they go to pieces it j,ut ill be because of negligence that vim little short of criminal, for It nf . mounts to official wastage of the jg , eople's money. tjm Southern Good Hoads has fre- bu> uently hammered on this subject; ut It is of vital importance to the :>ads just now nnd means hundreds 1 f thousands and even millions of ollars to the South right now. With fha igh prices prevailing on food and in ael it is Important that no mud em- a argo Interfere with prompt dlstri- pat utlon. Pre i i i , ? PARTY MACHINERY. * +++++++ + ++ (Columbia Record.) :n South Carolina, where there certain aitcihlnalcal condition* to be encountered further North, have been disposed to regard in. lendents and bolters as men to shunned politically. The people this State cannot, therefore, ap- . elate quite what is happening in v York city. ' riayor Mitchell Is A party bolter. he is receiving the endorsement that party. In the primary, the >ublican party polled only about per cent of its noraml strength, a few votes William M. Bennett od out John Purroy Mitchell. the executive committee of the ty has endorsed Mayor Mitchell has practically repudiated the didacy of the man who was given lajority on the face of the re18. uch staunch Republicans as Willi H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt e spoken in favor of Mr. Mitchi re-election. The latest to urge re-election of Mayor Mitchell is political foe, Qovernor Whitman. 9 was a manly thing to do, when 5 considered that the feeling been these two was quite intense, ernor Whitman favors Mr. rhell, despite party regularity or gularity, because he knows that ' York has had a clean, honest progressive administration? that the defeat of Mayor Mltchvould give comfort to the friendH , Germany on account of Mayor shell's outspoken Americanism. ue eieewuu ui nennPU 18 lmpos0, and the election of the Tarnly candidate would bo a calamity. New York World, leader of all Democratic papers of the counin the last presidential camin, Is blazing with exposures and unciations of Judge Hylan, the miany candidate. Other inde_ tent Democratic forces will' not id hitched to the Tammany canite. here is much in this situation for th Carolina to consider. Our party primaries must be proed. Too much suspicion has \ cast upon them in the past, re are honest men in South Carowho will ever believe that the A 4 or interests robbed C. C. Feath-^v one of the election of governor, swise they believe that Ira B. ?s really was the nominee in 2. On the other hand open sus>n was cast upon the nomination Jovernor Manning last summer, lie all of that might have been ouflage clap-trap to cover up ething else, the fact remains honest people have been per- ^ ted that the primary was not enty orderly. fe are not reviewing the past? ely making reference to it in orto give warning as to the future. primary election machinery t be tightened. Our laws regulg primaries must guarantee the grity of the proceedings and the teousness of the result. The e of the people must speak. We bvo that the people are good at t. although sometimes their is are turned. They really wish i government. and honorable in omce?me majority of the ' . It is now time to begin exning our election laws, to see they will permit of no such ages as have been hinted at or lly declared. ' this is not done?we may have 'ace next year a division of the y and a bolt to an independent :y. The alleged weakness of the y election machinery would be ?d as the excuse for such a bolt, ough of course, the real reason Id be merely the hankering p men have for jobs and the rnlng to disport themselves in lie places. They're fx>ade<l. harleston News .and Courier.) The greatest danger that threatus at present," says the Baltl~ e Sun, "is not from without but n within." We have often heard L those Maryland apple dump;s are delicious but dangerous. t No Time For Slackers. (Greenwood Index.) 'he average man is not so much treated now In how the war began when it will end. An early enddepends on the vim and vigor forth by the United States. This i and vigor is the combined effort all the citizens of the country. It up to you, each one of you. No e for slackers. Save food and ' a Liberty Bond. x Machaelis Resigns, iondon, Oct. 2 5.?Dr. George >haells, the Oerman Imperial mcellor, has placed his portfolio the hands of Rmperor William, ording to an Amsterdam dlsch given out by the wireless ss.