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j The Lanc aster N ews 1 Lancaster, S. C. .j^le (SEMI-WEEKLY.) sion ? "My Country 'Tio of Thoo, Swnt Land paign ?f Lib'r^ " man Published Tuesday and Friday Spring BY THE laud." LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. matte, Established 18112. ? , , said tl GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN live n Editor and Manager could i t i pci i i Entered as Second Class Matter )otober 7. 1905, at the Postofflce at progra Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- other tress of March 3, 1879. given SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: cludin (In Advance.) One Year 32.00 mour 81a Months 1.00 for m< days, i The News is not responsible for the er's cc riews of Correspondents. statem stantia Short and rational articles or . topics of general interest will be mgton gladly received. 11 is ,1il' Friday, November 23, 1J> 1T. cuu ,,c Coin pa Character?a reserved force which and ot acts directly by pressure and with- j out means.?Emerson. ed Sta No one is more profoundly sad cos^ than he who laughs too much.? known Richter. 80 uni Admin Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold, but he *>,c that shall endure unto the end. the a 'epl; same shall be saved. And this Gos- pers v pel of the kingdom shall be preached stntem in all the world for a witness unto . , . solutel all nations; and then shall the end come.?Matthew, xxiv: 12-14. ually < warm Oh. many a shaft at random sennf rpjje Finds mark the archer little meant. And many a word at random spoken ,esl)on May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. Snoft "nhsoli from I Try to feel beauty and do not talk fotjera] about your feeling; let your discrimination grow as a plant grows and do not keep pulling it up to show'how some \ if is getting on. Appreciation of art terned is far less an intellectual than an tjle sai emotional proposition, and for that * the Ge reason an effort to feel the meaning of a symbol is more valuable as a oners Btep in evolution than the reading that th of books purporting to reveal these foodsti mysteries.?R. Machell. 11 <1 11 tTi .. .. . , under Ever see the times so dull when Theodore Roosevelt couldn't start ' ' something? 4. as to I The governor West Virginia is Hot Si now saying things to the governor of with tl Massachusetts. Germai policy 1 Maybe Lord Northcliffe has reach- correct ed the conclusion that it is safer on be give this side of the water. ed out + to itMr. Lloyd George stock dropped f|rat j,[ a good many points, sudden-like, but RjVen \ ll seems to be regaining itself. tl,,, H. 41 placed There is little coal for sale in this . placed town, which is to say that now is the \rn?>ri<time for the mayor to be getting in ( wood' war w, such p Candidate Cooper evidently is dethe Gf tcrniined (hat no single man shall be Kaiser elected governor of South Carolina ment. next year. The" There will be numerous brass rails and mahogany counters for sale ,u,t In New York when the women be- ^ . , . 47 5.33 gin to vote. - - "exper It may be different with Mr. Otto ro^ a Kuhn, but we have no income over serves and above our personal and house- boat, hold expenses. . + We Sam Gompers says labor is back needs of the administration and the dele- know gates approve. Sum always did famine have a sort of winnin' way. favora wood.' Taken for granted without a recorded vote that most people agree Hav heartily with the sentiments of Hrlg. Libert; Gen. Phillips in the Sullivan rase. paign, fund, ; Tf this town would avert a fuel the ne: famine by establishing a municipal I woodyard, the weather Is most fav- If N orable for the mayor to be getting In he said his wood. gies at THE LANOAH FOOD OF PRISONERS, i HAUL THE W< % V re has been a deaj of discus- Farmers who hav 1 the papers of North Carolina will Und ready marl rooort that many ladies in at this time, while i rn North Carolina, notably in roads may be in sue jtghborhoods of Asheville and hauling will be pra prings, had refused to sign ble. There is no d dedge cards in the recent cam- that there is going because of the fact that Ger- of fuel in South Cs prisoners interned at Hot ter. Just how far ;s were fed "the fat of the {supply will reach ca The many reports on the but it is a certain! varied. At one time, it was'going to be a cons Hat these prisoners were given of coal, and the 01 leals a day of the best that wood. We have ma he bought and that the author- tho visible supply a charge were observing no abouts nor have, we nis of food conservation. An- the county fuel com statement was to the effect warned being gene the German prisoners were on a par with forei three square meals a day in-!to that effect, we fe g the "best meats that Ar- ter should be broug supplies," with no provisions j tion of the people s ^atless. wheatless or sweetless ties, is recommended in Mr. Hoov-i After winter weat >de of ethics. - This latter; w|ll be no time for ent has been somewhat sub- the woo,is nor,for 1 ted by a well known Wash-: necessity for conser newspaper man who writes i pa rat ion depends c per that he is in a position to severity of the won' that the very best meats that rjly of ooai js j,y r i purchased from Armour and d{(>tion. It is a ny, together with vegetables nn(i ls (jue largely 1 her edibles, are furnished consumption on the nterned Germans by the Unit- (riea engaged in pr< tes government. \\ hat the terial necessary to * to this government is not !n the prosecution o , but it has been so great and increased consumpti lecessary that Federal Food a? ioo.000.000 tons istrator Hoover has entered production at 50,000 itest." 'lhis retort was in a way ?,hows a shortage of p to one of the Asheville pa- The seriousness < ihlch characterized a former may be realized aftt ent to the same effect as "ab- and preparations at y false," which charge is us- prevent suffering and calculated to bring forth a mGnths to come. ' answer. "getting in your woi Washington newspaper cor- the farmers should dent says that the statement town while the weat the Asheville paper says is for hauling. The q ately false" was given out is a secondary consi< die ofllce of Herbert Hoover, eently the question food administrator." and It has been merely " "Mr. Hoover recommended (or wood, as the cat time ago that Germans in- I get. and when can at American camps be given may seem exaggerat ne food as that handed out by not. rman government to its prls- * of war. Mr. Hoover insists! VIOI/ATOKS NIK ere has been a great waste of ^ WAHXU iffs furnished interned Ger | and he has done everything j The food a(lmln,8, the authority vested in him |countenance the selli a stop to such conditions." )(lurts at ull at)norui confess to extreme ignorance i scarcity of some ;he truth of the situation at|si-gar, lias pronipte irings and we neither agree;ihants to put the pri lie idea of overfeeding the this has brought / i 1 prisoners of war or with tne from the federal f/iot it Mr. Hoover, if he is quoted j t? >ir. u. a. Coker, ly in saying that they "should | ministrator, as follow n the same food as that hand- "statute expressl by the German government j lracts for the purcht m lsoners ot war. In the |ctininii.ii;'y in excess ace, while they should lie r.,n-Mnohio rw,iiiran?i vholesome food and a plenty. J br determlned accor tme restrictions should be |u norma, tlme8 an, upon it as is voluntarily ft<;e of 0(hftr per|JO|| upon the serving of food in uatpd Doalera shQ an homes; and in the second perBon8 who are .ur entrance into the world- , the|p reaHOnable is for the purpose of crushing |Twe|ve cen|H faf <() tolicies as are maintained Uf toH#ri lo charge fo trman government, or by the ! &( t|{m constitutes v , who is the German govern-1. , . .. , tion four whether tl or not. We cannot any other price in t place where we draw the line | fcut no rpta?er Hho, >n *,aft and that Npw-|profit than he has n bazaar which took in ?71f-|on 8ugar wilhout , and all but $7.r>4.1?t> went forj.,?. , ... tive advances. PI tses." Anybody who would I . . .. wholesalers thoy niu soldier of his comfort kit Hf., ~ tailers who are thu to be run over by a steam. S(>e ROnera, ru,e gey ^ Section 4 rends a! I licensee shall sell su don't know whether this town ' . / i than a reasonable n a municipal woodyard, but we' ;actual purchase prit there is going to be a fuel I , / jular goods sold, wi and the weather is now most i . i the market or repla ble for "getting in your A1 the time of such sa _ l?n Folletto ing passed successfully the, (St i?ouj8 pojj Ir Loan, the food-pledge cam- Prussian Colonelthe Y. M. C. A. war work do you keep your m Lancaster county is ready for spirits?" ct call. Captain?"I have ^ . method of keeping u ir. Lloyd George meant what Colonel?"What d Captain?I read I we don't no that an japolo- ap0Wh6, lo e In order. roII ca||." Ml J J$tl . aj. V -i ^ -g PER NEW 8 FRIDAY, NOV. 23, 1917. IM)I> NOW. * + * + + * LOC e wood for sale + THE BLOODHOUND. + I? ft A ?? <et in the towns .... . . x little later the . TEN 1 h condition that (Charlotte Observer.) ctically impossl- Raleigh is another town to give a u. vote of confidence in the blood- * rom 4 ouct of the fact , . _ Mnv.r hound. The suggestion has been to be a scarcity ,atlvanced that clty and town jotn Cotton 10 irolina this win-: buying and maintaining a brace of ?" m this shortage of (these fabled runners-down of crlm- anc* nnot be foretold.' ,nal?- Ry way ?f comment, The 18 ,,gh ..... . Statesville Landmark observes: The aa,iy utput ty that there Is ., .... . . of oil pro-bloodhound folks seem to think iderable scarcity tbe 8UCj, doKa were kept in stockl lly substitute Is Raleigh would very greatly dimln- and ** ide no survey ol': ish the commission of crime and new fln of wood here- that criminals bold enough to at- *?for? Z*'?" ! tempt to operate in a community y ariGrn?o any figures from ..... . . following bo j where these beasts were ready to K mlttee, but fore- pounce upon them, would opoedily e'r(,ted. L. rally considered ^ come to grief. Well, they'll learn by ^ **ennei irmed or words experience, but some other and fur- r>' ,*?,Mn8Cn> el that th? mat- jt,ler -'?"on U ? r?. R~mui some of them." For a fact. It is tensut ht to the atten- rerajje(j tj,at a couple of years ago, Thursday Rb ind the author!- |n a moment of unbalanced mental- "ft,t l>al?8 K' i ity, the authorities of Wilmington ftK compared took UP the notion that they would up to ,,1G Ral her begins there * ' The Rev i import bloodhounds for the running cutting wood in down of cr|mlnalB. The doRS wero the Itev. C. F muling, and the bought and much newspaper pub- tw.? Me,hodil vation and pre- liclty was given to Wilmington's de- sPe?tl\ely, w tniv 11 iinn the pendence upon these for the safe- 'OI ^affney n.j upon KUardlnR of that community from conference, ther. The scar- ^ Qbserver wnrned W?J In a recent 10 means a pre- niinRton that the very advertising of nominated f< reality, present, this fact was likely to result in an ors While to the increased epidemic of burglary, because crim- P"niGMt thus part of lmlua- ' rnln(5 that tho town dopended on bloodhounds for protecoductlon of ma- .. . . ? , ., . ... _ all suit me tc tion, would flock there as an inviting the government fleld for operations. Just what The rG8PonsIbilUi< f the war. The Observer predicted came to pass. nia>or- **G8 on is estimated Wilmington bad an epidemic of "'"Kham. . and increased burglaries and small crime such as _ ___ i it had never known, and this con- \ Southei ,000 tons, which until there ivna evMenne that .? 50.000.000 tons. the police had pot back on the Job. jt WRg the )f the situation When it comes to the protection of \iannjnK rep ir it is too late. a town there 18 nothing quite so ef- ,|nn -n hl8 oJ this time will fective afl an orR?n,zed h?,,ce force cept yesterda with an established reputation for . t. Q( , hardship in the efflciency y em ' Daughters of Hie time to be, commemorate id" is now, and sucrifice of a I bring it into * , , . . . I of the Conf her is favorable * * OlItTI*.' | widow? and uestion of price 'ir v "n|> / women of t! ieration and re- ?? 1 (Columbia State.) Cl e and has not arisen. I of the United The driver of an automobile how much coal. . .. . . . . ... dearer lover c whether he be rich or poor, should ie may be), can i)aVe the instincts of a gentleman? r e ?Ufi' I get it?" This and the first instinct of a gentleman < P,,MS onon S t fl t OS II 'IS k. n ing. but it is Is to remember always the rights of 'Mrg M A others. No gent If man heedlessly ' *' endangers the life and limb of an- UH other person, no gentleman forgets >t l.l> T.\KK .that the motor-driven car is a pow- Why will y< \(j. erfui machine and that it imposes a dreaded disea constant responsibility on the hand j proven the g and eye that guide the wheel. No (.H8| 25 years [ration will not nne who is not bad at heart heed- testify to its ng of food pro- lessly exposes others to hazard. If i famous pre?c al profit. The drivers of motorcars will think a your home. ] articles chieflv t,,tt,e' and lf they wl11 remember tbat feel that first speeding is cruel, accidents will de-(to show you d some mer" | crease rapidly. If they forget that: antee. For s ce too high and to endanger life and limb is a dis- Drug Co., Lai orth a protest honorable and unmanly thing to do. I administration ?he most efficient policing in the , world will not reduce them to a *v* W< State food ad- ! . . minimum. *i a: i ' y forbids con- .\t Kvhihltioiu 1 lse of any food (Florida Times-Union.) > of purchaser's "Now this 's a lime tree." said V nts. This is to tbe obliging professor as he was y showing Mrs. Parvenu through theil*. rung u> custom . .... ? II*. building. , 1 general prac- ,try . , . ? . . "Dear me, how interesting. she is similarly sit- Bnj^t "a jime tree. Iiut tell me one uld not sell to thing, professor." * buying beyond "Well, what is it, my dear mad- J requirements, am'" ! J o much for re-' "However do they extract the mor r sugar. Their!""' ,rom U?" i { era ' ^ ~ lolation of sec- ................. + + + + + . )m itey are licensed .4. tlx ten cents or * BACK-FlItKS. + y (lit erins of figures, i ^ * ' / , 1+ + + + *+ + + + * Hll, lid obtain more 1 ormaliy enjoyed. We hnve been told that Camp' a 1>1*( benefit specula- (,,r?enr 's to have vaudeville cm Sun-1 , . ,,'day# and yet Columbia turned down, lease warn all A, , . T, T even motion pictures. From which 1 st not sell to re- ^ would seem that Charlotte has y n violating law. heat Columbia or Columbia has beat * cntnen." j Charlotte --depending largely OAiKf * ,J which way you look at It.?Laneas- W1 t follows: "The,, ter News. Mr .1 not m.r? That's a case of going .way from 1 to dvance over the ; home to hear the news. We didn't j J e of the partic-jknow that Charlotte had "boat Co thout regard to lumbla and this Is the first time, ? V)l*t . that we have ever been willing to ?< eement value at . . i admit that Charlotte had done any- , *e" thing better than Columbia. ' ~~j * Lei's see--how many Presbyte-| ^ rian churches nre there In Charlotte? * ^ t-Dispatch.) Something like 32 we have boon' J ?"Captain, how an lively. healthy churches. I > raw en in such good And the Presbyterians are the ones 1 who are regarded as most strict on ^ J a very simple Sunday observance matters. We^are p their morale." not leading up to any religious dis io you do?" cusslona, merely pointing out some J one of La Fol- Interesting, though anomalous facts. > them at every ?Columbia Record. V This Is yonr argument. We quit. * " v ' I I * DKING BACKWARD I BARS AGO THIS I TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO MONTH THIS MONTH. 1 ?! Files of this Paper (From the Files of this Paper nber 23, 1907.) November 23. 1892.) 1-4 cents; seed 18 cents. Cotton brought 9 1-4 here yester111 is running both day day. For night work the Col. Leroy Springs and Mr. P. O. ted by electricity. The McCorkle attended the state ball is about 2,000 gallons last week. Mr. Johnnie R. Wajker will preach toklers of the Farmers his first sermon next Sunday morn'rust company, Lancas- ing Ailing the pulpit of Rev. E. Q. uncial enterprise, here- Price both morning and night, ed to. met here Tues- John T. Green. Esq., of the Sumn and organized. The ter bar, has decided to return to his ard of directors was native county. He will move here B. Lingle, J. F. Nisbet, early In the year for the practice of tt, T. W. McMurray. W. his profession. W. M. Moore and A. It. The crop of sweet potatoes in this county is a large one. They are i buerau's report issued selling at 30 cents a bushel. The ows a total of 7,311,- hand who picks 150 pounds of cotnned to November 14, ton a day can buy two bushels of with 8,562,242 bales potatoes with his day's work, ne date last year. The first of the season cotton t. E. Turnlpseed and brought about 6 1-4 cents; during \ Carter, pastors of the the past week considerable was sold d churches here, re- for 9 cents. This Is exceedingly ill leave next Tuesday gratifying to our farmers, who to attend the annual planted and cultivated their crops, expecting to realize only about what issue of The News 1 am the season opened at. ir mayor hv "Taxpay- Hon. Ira R. Jones went to ColumI appreciate the com- bla last week to attend to matters paid me, 1 must, with preliminary to the convening of the ysclf. decline to accept legislature. Senator Strait went on. as it would not at down Sunday and Representative J. ? assume the duties and N. Estridge went down Monday a.i?s of the office of ternoon. Sergeant-at-arms Elliott pectfully, W. J. Cun- has been there since last week. Solicitor Hough is also there. ' I n Woman's Service. never was love more- completely 11 trt hi a Qtoto \ j j - t ? ununitticu 1UIU UUt?U3 itir <1 ( uUJJO privilege of Richard I. than was hers, yet a generation pasresenting South Oaro- sea and a stone to her memory stands flee as governor, to ac- to guide the women of South Caroy a monument ejected (Una in their duty in this new deand by the United tense of the country's liberties and the Confederacy, to the world's. To reconcile the cause > the service and the that our people fought for half a JL. woman for the soldiers century ago with the cause that ederate States, their their young men go forward to dechildren. and to point tend now might baffle a stranger le as inspiration to the hut to men and women of Southern lis later generation to nurture and feeling it is a natural crlflce for the soldiers simple thing. It is well for , States of America. No these United States that there were >f a republic that for its great hearts and understanding glorious life was the minds in the South of the Sixties ly that the United and after, for all that the South ow 11 lias lived than was gives now of courage and valor and marintlia Snowden and . - .. . .. ? ... sacrifice is of the heritage of those lEl'MATIKM. years. 3u sufTer from this most MARKETING HOGS. se when 1.,-Rhenmo has Heals hnrvini? them. <?tev? TToo reatest remedy for the ver, Mt. Pleasant. Iowa, writes, ? Thousands of people "Commenced feeding my herd of wonderful cures. This about 100 hogs n. A. Thomas' Hog riptlon should be In Power over two months ago. Fifty Have it ready when you were sick and ofr feed. Nearby pain. Ask our dealer herds had cholera. I did not lose our money back guar- one?they are well and growing ale by The Standard fast/'?Adv. icaster, S. C. 11-tf. Lancaster Mercantile. Co. V foil Have a Direct : V Interest I ! 'i : V the growth and development of the Fed 11 Keserve {System because its object is to ! : prove banking, currency and credit con ions; and to lessen the likelihood of those ancial disasters' which in the past have )ught ubtold losses to the business and oriiig men of the country. J Vou can contribute directly to its devel ment as part of every dollar you deposit I # th us goes directly into the new system protect our depositors. I Don't delay any longer to get under its > Section. ! / * [=5] : he First National Bank I I i ? LANCASTER, S. C. I : . , . > t t