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w rev--. - *. v~ ) PAGB FOUB TheLancasterNews (SKMI-WKKKLY.) Established 1HOJI. passage ol ? senate T Published Tuesday and Friday BY TKE whlch rep LANCASTFH NEWS COMPANY. from a gr Lancaster, H. C. voted agai QBOlUiB U I'LL A CRAVEN hHP8 1,1 Mui' Editor and Mummer 8on ^ ?????? by reason SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: the congr(, (lu Advance.) One Year $2.00 amendmeni Six Mouths 1.00 conception Entered as Second Class Matter constituent October 7, 1005. at the Postollice at we (jiSUKrc Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress of March 3, 18 70. eue. Sout ~ " evidently b The News is not responsible lor the views of Correspondents. Short and In favor o rational articles on topics of general s.ate as n interest will be gladly received. ? believe the does not p ^$3|h*> ./w* t be congrc WfwSW ??; V political i "My Country T s . t Tliee. Sweet Land voted agai lieve unfoi FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. 1918. fire88,nan * _ _ tion his ai scorn and i SENTENCE SEKMONS. have follov formance. Folks never understand the folks why any i they hate. Lowell. no^ sup| The secret of satisfaction in life <ir? "ie K is self-control.?Frank Crane. erned, if t demand fo Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. mission of Lest we forget, lest we forget. nient to ?Kipling. states tor What we get we must earn, if it o! 'ta i is to be truly ours.?David Starr erned a vc Jordan. Tjie thread of the nor And in like man the Spirit also heipeth our infirmity; for we know v Wlln not how to pray as we ought; but force it ut the Spirit itself maketh intercession which do t for us with groaning which cannot (hat lias b< be uttered.?Romans, 8:26. ory of mar Of all thoughts of Clod that are Oary in Borne inward into souls afar, those who Along the Psalmist's music deep, prejudice Now tell me if there any is. into opposi For gifts or grace surpassing this? ? "He giveth His beloved sleep." ?Mrs. Browning. under higli trage ante Meditation is the great storehouse senate. Ti of our spiritual dynamics, where di-inia(j0. ,|.e vine energies lie hid for an enter- , heard and prise and the hero is strengthened for his field.?J. Martineau. members o + up to ridi< to praise o EDITOR I ALETTES. probably w ? over their Am n Minn hppnnipc 4,nf ..co" Qiirinnilnf here of late he becomes of use to his country. OUGHT Liquor As a matter of fact if no one can up tjie be induced to testify against him, jjut no( or Dr. Johnson's stock may go up sev- they're sen oral points. pers. but tl " * unsigned ai And so the postwomen were not a ve|opft wjjj success in St. Louis. First thing vou . . ,, place in tl know somebo. us.ng that v. . the News 1 against suffrage. . cular po * Ohio,'' eont We suspect that a lot of people The Shelby have learned a lesson from this coal Florida Ti: shortage which will be quite notice? ham News able next summer. i ier-Journa + We have no doubts as to the mer- P?8M' to its of the case but fear it will be ''ona' ail>? hard to shoot that German spy re- Kroum' ",a cently arrested at Norfolk. ^on 1 ' Ihiu mnttn + It has boen our observation that ol|Kht to 1< the Torrens system of land registra- not Pr tion has generally been a failure be- cations, ar cause only of defects in the construe- Print them tion of the law. tempt for 1 The eirc ? The fact that Kentucky promptly black head latifled the prohibition amendment I>ry Force ought to cause some of the other Control in States to sit up and take notice, tors fear You've heard of Hreathitt county. we knew \ say it is a Says the State of Columbia: "If will cc skirts go any higher, as threatened. jng that it let us hope that the stockings at a few editi least will be treated with protective tutional a colorings." Camouflage, so to ^-ise oppos speak. or form, i * are not hi The North Carolina commissioner j)U( llu. m of Internal revenuo claims that two- nre in thirds of the Illicit liquor stills selz- favor ed In the United States last year ment ^n were seized In North Carolina, and It is assumed that this Is one claim Senator of North Carolina which no other lleves we State will dispute. to do it. 1?"? *" ? rr-flrf r i . - - IB LANCASTER NEWS, LANCA DOGS AND 8HKKP. News is indebted to the CoRecord for the information * iccording to the tax books for (F? :he value of all the sheep in Invests Carolina was $32,732; hogs. th!rteen < 57 and 'dogs, $633,703." Carolina ecord gets matters a little eon are 1 " when it says: "the statls- cent&K? c to dogs are seen in the high- *^an *kis sembly, ) id by-ways and not on the tax jc8?. jaw ' Wh irh Kpama t r* cnn T1 AGE IN THE KENATE. >e Interesting to watch the The f woman suffrage in the lumbia he near solidarity with that "a resentatives in the house 1916, 1 oup of southern states South nst the measure will per- $612,71 (nee no one, but compari- The R< e the more readily made "mixed of it. We doubt not that tics as ssmen who oppose *he ways ai 1 were influenced by their books,' of what is beet for their the sta y and the nation, while Record se with them on the is- made 1 h Carolina's delegation the leg] ooked upon the sentiment enactin f woman suffrage in the a few > egligible, and in this we Vest, a y were mistaken, but this sen." N revent our believing that as fain >8smen were impelled by ol the T motives. Intimation of the pat inishment in the loss of Senator prestige for those who but fac nst the measure we be- The Linded and had any con- has bee liven way to such intinra- larmert ction would have invited sheep s ridicule that would surely made f red such weak-kneed per- farm. There is no Just reason sheep h matter of reform should to brin m it ted to the people, who dogs is overnment and the gov- cuse all here be any considerable The r It. Likewise the sub- The Re a constitutional amend- Shee] the legislatures of the ratification should not sheep. 1 made t purpose to allow the gov- a(jditloi >ice in their government, average u . ., net pre bare argument that some Pheep v them and wastern states With _ Lespedc t universal suffrage may hardy >on some southern states sustain . , much c lot is the same argument . ? . t. Rut sen used since the memignoran 1 runneth not to the con..... there w prohibition campaigns by . . . , would* I sought to arouse sectional ... . .. that's a which would crystalize . , _ . we hav ition of the movement. l>|o." 5 i senators will he placed , of the ] i pressure when the suf. , , dogs th ndment goes before the ? . t renoliei he same fight will be plies to same arguments will be Istantly. the action of southern f the house will be held ' ?a' great si jule on the one side and . , .. tlefields n the other. Kxpediency ill be held as a cudgel heads, but they will not The i their convictions. conserv 4> number TO K\mv lU'TTI-'ll ? that a internals have not given fU(>1 an t. They're still at it. ,hat wh ily the nature of the stuff a ful, , dins out to the newspa- j^ere v in fact that the matter ts either ( n<l sent out in a plain en- prders gain for it a nice, waini which a he editorial wasteliasket. ,%t.ry pp las received a printed cii- arp ma( at marked "Cincinnati. ,,xjrenip aining articles credited to turn l)0 , N. Highlander. The jzed mes-l'nion, The llirming-j ry and The Louisville ^ou"|just its< 1. All of them are op- j the exj the prohibition oonstitu- man(je{j ndment ostensibly on the iJOf|jjy t it destroys State rights. mjn) know who is sending out (^e r. but whoever he is he weat|,el mow better. Newspapers w{|j int anonymous communi?d they not only do not ij^ i but have an utter con- The :hem. with tl ular referred to has a big, commie I: "Dixie Kditors Fear Hossed Bill Will Dead to Negro value; South." The Dixie edi- sion to nothing of the kind. If and ast vho wrote that, we might the sen lie, but since we do not, the cor intent ourselves with say erty at is untrue. There may be "where ors wno oppose the eonstt- be too mendment and who like- equnlit e prohibition in any shape values ind we will not say they great 1 onest In their convictions, rected, ajorlty of the newspapers coinraii ror of prohibition and in equaliz the constitutional amend- properi d they fear no bugaboo. be as * McCumber evidently be- May went in to fight and ought that h richly ?|lfl f , (| , ? ), tement of valueR given. The Ti also says: "Senator Vest . The at .he yaller dog famous, but ^ capta Islator who now will force the grabbing g of an anti-dog law will in contracts, rears be as famous as Senator rial" are nd for a more sensible rea- Petent- s' to the fac lo legislator will ever become from prp ous as Senator Vest's eulogy thing doe dog by reason of his being ron of an anti-dog law. And Vest's eulogy was not fiction roni A Sprii *8' self-told s truth is that sheep-raising Ava the in on the decline because the v. hat the > didn't care to raise more him. Hi , - , . paling th ind found more money to be . hunting s rom other products of the even <joz It is quite true that some turkeys. lave been killed by dogs, but der the tn g the accusation against all *n va'n... . , , tails of t hardly more just than to ac- ... .. did the sp I men for a single murder. sat a ,jej News heartily agrees with locality f cord in this paragraph: evidence p should be found profitable (>u* so' 'tically every upland farm in Carolina. A small flock of Where " lot to exceed 50 ewes, can be ( i source of revenue and of lal food supply but every e farm. This will be largely State's rij; ?fit, although, of course, the of entren (ill require some watching. r j our hillsides abounding in f .. . '7.a and native clovers and ? ' r grasses, there is enough to Carolina i a flock of sheep without this descr ORt' the white The Record exhibits woeful lina, the ce in the statement that "if political : ere no dogs to bite, there ( '"s'on o' ,, , , , by the mi and resolves that the tax people ai ision "use every means of pftfhy wj lng the assessed values of the salon ty," and recommends that It Hut to t sessed at 33 1-3 per cent. "*ht wli ^ small pei be Spoermann had a suspicion Oallfornl ie wouldn't get what he so our TQte deserves. tlon of t i f | | en in "?t jp no need for the hair, and |renctimei bout all the service of which governine e heard that dogs are capa- supplartei Purely The Record lias heard Pe?P'e ?f . ,, . . . white Dei Red ( ross dogs and real war ,, Carolina 1 at aid the lighters in the jjun>1 jn j s. They carry men and sup- knows wl the trenches, under fire conand are often killed. Dogs Peru lahle of and often perform *ron Lloyd i'vice. not alone on the hat- . , shocked t , but at home. mous Par * "yea" in SERIOUS SITUATION, "yes." A Irastic measures taken to to our * e fuel perhaps will bring stated 1,1,1 "yep." I s of people to the realization remarjt 0 necessity exists to conserve siang has d food. The News Insists King's El en the people are brought to have been 'ealization of the situation (,,P,oniat'< "we will i nil be no further waste of reported , ood or fuel. The restrictive the <i*i of the fuel administration of Knglan ire in force today will afTect Aaquith f 11# i. i t ? . Parliameti arly. if not all business, but ed: "I k le necessary by reason of the l.v cold weather, which in |>out>ta " ttled up an already disorgan- (From ansportat ion system. The hornier ..... .. . . fornia, is is given little time to ad- A! tional pr elf to the new conditions but j,ut j)e js gencies of the situation de- saloon hi prompt uction that actual oul the na suffering from the cold may , . . . . legislatinj Imized. The real remedy for .. said (?ov< 1 shortage is the summer iar(j. "\\ r and until that arrives, we of the ge ig along the best we can. n?t tell * what thej HI8LATIVK WltANGIiKS. drink, or . , , Sumptuar legislature Is having it out upon Rnj le State tax commission. The blue lawi ision wants all property as- many of at 50 per cent of its actual that are the house wants the commls- be en*on' now if bj rescind its order to auditors .. the prev* less property "as heretofore;" an(j 9a|e ate wants to compromise with feet, the amission and assess the prop- law-, if th 33 1-3 per cent. The senate be a dea< laifrs are. ars that the change would ,.T. . , "But I violent, but admits "gross in- |oon js ,. ies in the assessment of in my ot of property, which causes winter to niustice which shnilM ho fnr- This mo1 STER, 8. C ISSOR8 AND PASTE. I Perhaps V?t. luntain Inn Tribune.) ^WVI gators have learned that LJ I >f each one thousand South selectmen at Camp Jack oeble minded. If the per>f half-wits was no higher > Q u ius avriage general asthere would be a "eugen- *?*] in this State. ' * mes Have Chnngod. Cj (Anderson Mall.) ' tentlon of those enterpris- or of Ins of Industry who are big profits on government M when they find that oftinot looking, or are incom- VOIltl lould once more be called _ "t that this war Is different Qf QC vious wars. That sort of sn't go any more. 1 Oc Weel iuhlime Ignorance. F or 5Q Wee the Kansas City Star.) ^OU WIL [lgfleld man, the hero of a HAVE itory at a dinner table near AA other night, is wondering ? W near future has in store for e Springfield man was ree others with an October * flltli tory; how he had killed an en quail and three wild CffOTl Friends kicked at him unible, but their attacks were > Not until the fullest de- vOIIM he story had been related eaker learn that at his side tdkCS >uty game wurden in that or the purpose of getting . against persons hunting ison. 'Privilege" Is Kntrcnclied. (Columbia State.) "You'll is the old argument of jf y0u :hts, which is the last gasp died privilege nowadays." ? K. Breedin, superintendent " iti-saloon League of South c???? is not wholly inaccurate in I ip'.ion. The privilege that race enjoys in South C'aro privilege of directing its 1 (fairs to the practical ex- TRN \ the negroes, is entrench ate rights." Once the enit shall he destroyed and * **rom l'ie nt by the States shall be Jam 1 by government by the Dr. S. 11. fc the United States the Jn town Wed mocratlc party of South Kfnial doctoi will in fact lind Itself strug- J0>'s a Joke e ts Inst gasp. Mr. Breedin Pense, relate* iat he is talking about. while here. Lancaster wa I*tration of the Slana unexpected. i The New York Post.) i ^an ^ George is said to have aakfi(I him 81 he British public in his fa- "le alleged is speech by the use of there 30,1 br stead of the more sober a susP'?'on ; comic paper, with an eye ni'n<* ,llat lb< o-operation in the war, a con'0,'e it perhaps he meant to say So when he t seems to be a matter of sald 8tran8er n the other side that our < aRter> the d' been interpenatrating the a,onR to?* nglish. English statesmen when on arrl reported as pounding the that the 811 : table and stating that than a 8k,,,e put it across," generals are 1 W8tofflce Ins 0 have concluded an order tor' " w'" ^ f with the words. "Soldiers ?f tlie lea(*er d, it's up to you!" When roum'e(* and ell. a staid old member of p,'c,s near ^ it is said to have remark- ?f thft ta,kin new he would get in bad." t( able looking l>ry" Amendment Success. '"K ocoa8,on 1 the Washington Post.) ,Ie had p,en< Governor fiillotta o/ enn_ etS, but in "til i not so certain that na- menl he forg ohitbition will bo carried. KUn' sure the death knell of the Mr" Samuc is been sounded through- ,n* bride> wl ltion the recent h Illy for us to talk about inR hoU9e < for another generation," rottaKe8 on ?rnor Gillette, at the Wil- extenslonre can not make the habits A bri,!lan iterations to come; we can lh'8 w them what they shall do. Wedne?day ' r shall eat. what they shall "e,,e Mayer what they shall wear. done8 and y laws can not be forced Lanca8ter' a r free people. There are prom,nent P ' on the statute books of Ch,ef Hov the New England States f?ur KaMon8 not enforced and can not 8e'zed ^ b'' ed. and fifty years from nu"Jber ?f ( ' constitutional amendment ' r> mtlon of the manufacture v,8itlng her of alcoholic drinks is In ?f- ,n Char,esto people will not observe the ey do not desire to. It will ment In the A letter Just as the blue Kress. Real mlse in this beiieve the day of the sa- nient; where apidly passing. California, permitted t linion, will pass a law this their light w i do away with the saloon, reinent has been promoted W'l alters of light wines and the (From the re evidently in entire sym- We are at th It. San Jose abolished as to goveri ?n and so did Los Angeles, ory as to th< ake away from the family for democra aes and beer containing a for the one rentage of alcohol will not the womanh approval of the people of nation, and 1 a. I do not believe thatl We are at r? will permit the ratifies- ty from belr he constitutional amend- civilization I iMbmr. ISmilliiWMll III MEMBER R1STMAS me in and as tere is no cos ngle women, i d can join. arried men, \s can join. ',e. tly 25c Weekly 50c ks For 50 Weeks For rt YOU W 1 L 1, YO HAVK .$12.50 $ k, how easy it I is required. ; in and ask i a moment THEE Be Happy Save." DKING E BAILS AGO THIS MONTH Files of This Pa| lary is. i:?08.) Izzell, of Van Wyok, v Inesday afternoon. T . by the way, who < ven when at his own < i one or two on hims It seems that his visit s altogether sudden a lie met a stranger Wednesday morning w ) many questions alx safe-erackers captui ought to Lancaster tl arose in the docto i stranger himself mif rate of the men in ji learned that the afo was coming on to Lj ?ctor concluded to co Imagine his surpr Iving here he found < anger was none otl d government detect! ipeetor Bulla. The d e remembered, was c s of the party that s captured the five s /an Wyck, doing mt g to the men. He n ells it that his form weapon on that ex< was an empty shot gi ty of shells in his po* le excitement of the 11 ;ot all about loading 1 Harper and his char ho were married durl lolidays, are now ke They occupy one of 1 Main street's south* t social event in Ch 'eek was the rnarrii nominK of Mis? Sa , niece of Mrs. Fan Miss Mariah Mayer, ,nd Dr. B. C. Nalle, hysiclan of Charlotte iKn yesterday destro; of contraband liqu n and held the requl lays.?Kershaw Kra. ' Barron, who has bi father. Sheriff Ilunl n, has returned. form it passed the c ly, I look for a corap whole prohibition mo by the people will o have their beer i lines." oil i* at HLakc. Manufacturers' Kecor war noi lor any trie intent, not for any t e world being made h icy, but we are at 1 i final struggle to s ood and children of t to save civilization its ; war to save Christie ig destroyed by athei !roni being dostroyed ftfci HI?.. ?>?i. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1818. 5HIP IN OUR SAVINIX fl IIR I/1I f AilVIU VliW k about it I to join. married women, young single men, boys and Everybody, irrespective I Weekly *1.00 Weekly *2.BO Weekly 50 Weeks Fop 5? Weeks For BO Weeks U WILL "YOU wTTTT YOU W I L L? HAVE HAVE HAVE 25.00 $50.00 $125.00 t is. Think, how'Jlittle Think, of the reward. ibout the plans, it only SANK OF LANCASTER BACKWARD J TWENTY-FIVE YEA 118 AGO THIS MONTH. >er (From the Files of This I'apor January 18. 1893.) ras Governor Tillman, Comptroller 'he General Fllerbe and Chairman Hraten ton, the special committee in charge ex- of distribution of the $5,000 approelf priated by the general assemblv for to | the purchase of artificial limbs for ml Confederate soldiers, are ready to in receive applications. The money is ho available to those who receive any jut portion of the fund appropriated in ed 1881. lat The spinning maeninery for the r's new cotton mill at Fort Mill is being ;ht rapidly placed. It Is said to be one til- of the handsomest mills in the re- south. in- The ice on Welsh's mill pond me about a mile south of town is 3 1-2 tee inches thick, and the skaters of town >ut have been enjoying the tine sport " ler afforded thereby. ve, We have been having the coldest oc- weather for some time past that we me have had in several years. Monday ur- morning last the mercury stood at us- seven, which is the lowest point ich reached during this "snap." Yes lurnay morning It stood at eight, id- Several t?1885 or '86? :lt- the mercury reached zero. That, an. which was seven degrees colder than nk- Monday morning, is about as cold ao- as It ever gets in South Carolina, his I The postofflce and branch store of M. F. Jones & Company, at Liberty 'in- Hill, were burned on Wednesday Ingj morning last. Both were in the ep- same building. Mr. Barber, who the J had the management of Jones & ern Company's business, was sleeping in a small room cut off In one corner ar- of the store, and awoke only in time age to escape death. He threw his die trunk out at a window and Jumped nie out in his night clothes. He had of pulled his trunk scarcely twenty , a yards from the building before an explosion of powder occurred which yed biew the building to atoms, ors Miss Sallie Bandy, of Alabama, red who taught in the graded school here for about a month, resigning at the Ben end of that time on account of 111 ler, health, has returned to resume | teaching in that institution. on- barbarism. iro- are war jn or(|er that we ve- - ui?> noi forever be slaves to Ger*)0 ninny, and slaves we shall be unless :in(l we win the war, and worse infinitely than slaves, for slaves have always been protected and their women and children protected; but thin would '" ) not be the cane if Germany was our ory maHter. ^ he- *1 All that la in use, and all that we >H TG have, and all that civilization has known, is at stake, ave .his elf. Greatest Joy In Life. inj_ Life would not be worth the living, am worth PH,n anrt struggle, were It b I .?r joy, me joy of loving and Ueltt* loved.?F. L. Otfden. 1