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PAGE POUR TtfELANCASTERNEWsj ..A c (SEMI-WEEKLY.) Established 1852. j Maxton, - had >8, 1'ublUhed Tui'Mlay and Fridnj BY THUS seems, LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. reason. lauicaster, S. C. man wa OKOIU.K BULLA CRAVEN U Uttle Editor and Manager time hl about $ SUBSCRIPTION PltlCK: .... . cimrge (iu Advance.) One Year $2.00 is a foo Six Months 1.00 whatno( Entered as Second Class Matter around October 7, 1005, at the Tostollice at ,f Eaucaster, S. C., under act of Con-1' gress of March 3, 1370. j with hii if tl6 Cfl The News is not responsible for the views of Correspondents. Short and j there tc rational articles on topics of general . ., interest will be gladly received. ' ? caused la citemenl the othc "My Country 'T .s of The#. Sweat Land ; waa 8UP ? ? : 1 .?r* " " . was pla TUESDAY, FED. 5, 1918. the "loc ?? which e the elect SENTENCE SERMONS. thftre v j sought t To live for others, to suffer for t|,p moa others, is the inevitable condition ?f f f our being. To accept the situation ' gladly is to find it crowned with its ?' ^hicl" own joy.?Westcott. ken posi services There is no harm in being stupid. I (lred doj so long as a man does not think himself clever; no good in being clever a^'un" ' ' if a man thinks himself so. for that cou'dn t is a short way to the worst stupid- die ti.en ity.?MacDonald. lawyer seemed I It is not work that kills men; it . * nusinpsH is worry. Work is healthful; you can hardly put more on a man than ,none>' a he can bear. It is not the revolution was. T1 that destroys the machinery, hut the about hi friction. Beecher. it was th ? , * . 7 .. . lars he h Head not to contradict; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to of ke<?Pli find talk and discourse; but to "harmlei weigh and consider. Some hooks are and told to be tasted, others to be swallowed. ? ?),. and some few to be chewed and di. , . . . . newspap< posted; that is. some books are to be read only in parts; others to be * f read, but not curiously: and some cious. few to be read wholly and with dill- the cop pence and attention.?Bacon. there to ? kept um EDITORIALFTTKN. da>'a an( United ! One might have assumed that P'a'n hi Spain would know better. leased ai + eight tin At that the heatless Mondays But w could have been worse. , money. 1 + late, rea It really will he interesting how j he oughl history will treat Bill Hohenzollern. I four per * I will, unl Congratulations to the' weather-1 rarryj works, and may we have always 1 with us the Hon. G. Hog. + It is j This thing of eating corn bread prectjon instead Oi wn*-;.t is not bad but|j anpn8je when it comes to potato skins, count ,iefinitel> us out. ready ex * tcr of i While the sand-clay roads are bevoice c ing regaled for their lack of stabil- , , stated b Ity, thev are, even at that, eminently i. letter to better than roads of red clav without printed sand. ; too pate; While Henry Ford Is making fMun,IN cute the "sea-flivers" it is to be taken for granted he will also turn out a few lj necpssi t \ of the kind that "rattle right along" interests on the ground. ^ , postpone .lllat ntuillf tha tima (lia nnuat'n- stHtOS. ment was to put on the motor-post un,e8R e lines the bottom fell out of the raref roads. Which is to say that the said wit'1 motor-post lines are yet in the mak-j Kreat inR jgovernm + undertal There are certain industries in history < North Carolina, according to inter- Hal tha nal revenue authorities, using a diture h large amount of corn, which should States be restricted in consumption if this private country is to go on a corn bread ,,a'a diet. ! progress ^ ' The s A North Carolina editor reports there is receipt "on subscription" of load af- is not w ter load of good wood and "five icnees to pecks of good waterground meal sure th? and a bushel and a half of fine when th sweet potatoes the same day." And more th there are those to say the newspa- structlor per business is not profitable. deferred THE Li "DR." FISHER. orn doctor" was arrested at LOOP , N. C.. the other day who 000 in a valise. In fact, it ___________ he was arrested for that TEN 1 KAILS A year or so ago the same ts arrested and locked up in (From the pUefi town in Virginia, but at that February Is "roll" only amounted to There are bills A,000. There wasn't any lalure on almo: against him except that he imaK,nab'e* I 8UF of them will be 1. Any man, corn doctor or wa8tebasket ere t . who will carry money aa many of them that way is a fool. It seems that fate. I think mcthing ought to be done troduced providing , . ., ... . . . of the birthplace c tn, but if it s his money and . Jackson will pass me by it honestly, who is there ,8 Rome Qpp interfere? In the Virginia Pressley Robinson lere was a hit r> f u - * *? & VAVIVOU1VUI ? uc uuusr IIclH by the arrest of the doctor. Pr?bihition bill bj 52 with four or live thousand At a meeting is calculated to create ex- !mard Qf dlrectors I and the incident at llanilet Publishing comp, r day was not unlike that in Clark was elected ginia town. The "doctor" middle, Jr., as ...... . Mr. Clark will tak ipected ot being a spy; he The advertiseiru ced behind the iron bars of rpcently of 8ome k-up" in the Virginia town, the streets of Lai hanced to be in.the rear of C. Carpenter was ric plant, and "he was in"? recovery of the sa .. . ? who proved to b( vas no denying that. He , _A, named Stinson froi he advice of a lawyer and In Th(. amount was 1 ntime the lawyer li;wl heard Miss Clara B. our or five thousand dollars Carolina, daughter i the chief-of-police had ta- ?' I^uncaster, has . . _ . , . of the first water session, and he offered his , , gaged in painting i to the "doctor" for a hun- ator B R Tlllman lars. There was no charge nearly complete am llm, but he was in jail, and throp college to ti get out. He said he would 1,10 one ,liere now . r . , , .. w hich is very poor. 3 before he would pay the . _ J. Mr. J. F. Thorn a hundied dollars. He telephone manager, o think that it was his with grip for some if he wanted to carry his Miss Hope Greg round in a valise, and it ^ inthrop college I Miss Catherine F lere was something funny ,, .. ,,, Graniteville to teac 111 this "nr." VMohor nrwl ie four or five thousand dol1A, , .. money which wou ad with him and his manner .. , , put into it, may he ng it. He was released as ,, . . . and clothing and is, given his money back . , ? A the gallant sons o go his way. He went. . .. . and other States w Fisher, according to a .... , . to tight and perhafl er story, hit Laurinburg, N. ... . , . . . country." In whi ither day and looked suspiIr . . . . ,, . . Adoo is entirely ri He started to Maxton and , . . ... 1*1 of Lancaster regre s phoned the authorities look out for him. He was ?on?t'u^ion of th< iler surveilance for several "lu ,<>r su<an ' 1 finally taken before a bUt do 80 w,th *ot States commissioner to ex- ,,f thP <^?mstan< mself. He was finally "reld went in his way with tin? WAS NOT A msand dollars in his valise. ^elless Monday hen "Dr." Fisher loses his The reHU,t was a le will (hen, only when too "on business in lize that for all these years 'n sav'ng qualit t to've had it in a hank at num,>roU8 protests rent Interest, and lose it he oountry affected b; ess he adopts another way 'ias *)eon found ng it along. have ?"ff?red grea ^ of business than THE I'OSTOFFK'K. while the fuel act i matter of regret that the negligible quantity of a public building in trator Garfield has r must be postponed in-1 ferences with Dire r, after so many delays al- McAdoo and has perienced. but it is a mat- nouncement that " vhich no good citizen will der consideration omplaint. The reasons as suspending after y Secretary McAdoo in a (yesterday), the M congressman Stevenson, I der. We have no in The News last week, are conclusion about it nt to permit of protest. Th' another conferenci needs the money to prose- (today), when th war and the erection of all Monday closings ai uildings "except where the embargoes up to ' is so urgent that the public fully considered, t would suffer," has been to make an an d. Secretary McAdoo week as to wheth "We cannot win this war pension of the M very resource of the nation dcr may be made, ully husbanded and used tlcipates that the s utntost intelligence. The scinded and that tiancial operations of the more fuelless Mo ent, greater than any ever ruption of businesi ten by a government in the ience experienced 1 >f civilization, make it essen- close has been pu t every unnecessary expen- clals in such a tv y the government, by the but realize that t nd municipalities, and by ineffect Is practiei corporations and Individ The order, ho' avoided while the war is in tailing great incor in some instances ecretary says "I am certain without good effeci not a patriotic citizen who material loosenin illlng to submit to inconven- congestion in sor ? help win this war. and I am speeded ud the hi it the people of Lancaster, two of the points iey know the facta, will be promulgation of an willing to have the con- baaed. The lack i of their public building of the order and a short time bo that the elastic interpretati LNCASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. < vING BACKWAI A<K> THIS TWENTY-FIVE YKAI - THIS MONTH. i of This Paper (From the Files of T r 1, 1908.) February 1. 189 before this legis- The troubles between ?t every . subject borers, especially Italiar ipose a good many Phosphate fields with the consigned to tho who bring them down, he session closeH, yearly occurrence. Ther deserve to share ('oubt but the poor lello a bill whlcli 1 In- humanly treated at times 5 for the marking ernor Tillman is going tc >f General Andrew his P?wer to brin* al the house, though gainst these people to Ju losltion to it.?W. W. H. llurns, Jr.. ant Baltimore, are visiting th killed the state parents at this place. r a vate of 61 to Hon. Ira II. Jones wen leston Sunday to attend i this week of the States circuit court. of the Lancaster Frank Mackey and ^ any, Mr. A. J. Qre(in went to Rock Hill to succeed Mr. J. en^er Presbyterian hi business manager. Cards are out annoi e charge today. {marriage, on the 14th of ?nt in I he News ()( Miss Kate Hough, of money found on one nf t^e teachers in t icaster by Mr. J-lH(.hool here last year, t the means of the Marsh, a substantial and me by the owner, citizen of Union county, > e a colored man ceremony will take plat n another county, residence of the bride's lit all in bills. Hon. and Mrs. J. M. Hon Strait, of South , , , , The municipal election of T. J. Strait, 0 ,. on.*. < Springs on the 30th ult., t become an artist .. ... # . r, the election of A. Cauthe and is now en- . . .. arm ant; and Dr. S. J. Hins i portrait of Sen- T, ,, . . ... Bruce, C. L. Ingram and \\ The portrait is . . cash, wardens. d will go to Winake the place of Mr' R' S' Hm- Ande r of the senator, yesterday appointed chief penser. This appointmen asson, the genial a surprise to the public, has hi>?n ni^ir name bad never been mer connection with the place ory returned to Monday. be et>ually as surprising to oster has gone to who was an applican h school. j place. ild otherwise be sen the value of the move used to buy food were probably contributor ammunition for j which prevented the resu f South Carolina up to expectations. ho are going out is to die for their GIVE A HVSHBL OF V ch Secretary Mc- A subscriber to The Nev ght. The peoplo N. Crenshaw, living on 1 I to forestall the It. F. D. 8, suggests that ? postofllce build- era who raise wheat in tl n definite period.. contribute a bushel to th >d graces in view (at the front througn the 1 es. I or some organization whlcl ward the wheat or the i SUCCESS. from its sale in such mann s was a mistake, be most effective. Mr. C neral demoraliza- suaeestinn ?triu?D vt e. army already overseas. It wou dmlnistra- extraordinary If sobriety and dom from vice, so essential to tary efficiency, were being n rve bank, enforced among those riiv r the Pre- thousands of miles from the line and were being disreg > Commls- among the troops which are ck th? firing line, which will bt lation of first to go Into battle, and th< cfency of which Is. therefore, o A. C. A. highest Importance, trance. _____ , . . Tillman's Kar Attuned. asked for an to two (Greensboro Dally News.) i"*together A" ?' ua ar? familiar wltl wlce over man who consents to become a ew people d'date 'or public office only a urgent and continued solicitatii t of more a vast " mulltude of friends, e to our can h? fall to respond to po i who sent clamor that he allow his name tut the In- UB?d on the official ballot? Ha ly in the h'8 been trained these 111 In such years to hear such delightful 1 lent. lings? Soon he fancies tha gone Into warbllngs have become a might) t propei'.y irresistible chorus ever widenii % ?.w wv. ...vo t lie A"* id it wan lacking most worthy one and tire ies. There were doubtless would be glad from all over the such a contribution from y the ruling and mer in the county, and that industries Cross may be counted up ter by suspension the proceeds in the mosl was anticipated, way toward the comfort at ually saved is in of the men "over there." Fuel Adminis- ahaw would like to hear f been holding con- farmers on the subject ctor of Railroads ( rectly or through The Now i made the an- columns of the paper ma; We have had un- -ty the farmers in the disi the question of the movement, whether fa Monday next, unfavorable to it. londay closing or t r..a,h,d a Anal SOISHORS ASI> ,.v. t. We shall have 1 p Tuesday next, ,, b roe Space. e results of the (Yorkville Enquire id of the railroad During this week we ha that time can be ***' applications for free a .... . . the following: ind shall be able _ State highway departm nouncement next Co-operative demonstral ier or not a bus- Local charity committe onday closing or- United Statos food a " The News an- t,on . ... . United States treasury, order will be re- . . _ . , I Richmond Federal rese there will be no National Association foi ndays. The dis- . vention of Tuberculosis, s and inconven- I^esslle Woman 8uffrag< tiy those forced to 8ion? Inc> _ Manufacturers' Assoc it before the ofll- . New Jersey. ay that they can War Work Council Y. B he saving of fuel Bureau of war risk lnsi illy nil. several others. wever, while en- In moBt raae8 lhG 9pare ranged from half n cninn ivenienre anci loss I coiurnns and all of then , wan not wholly would fill The Enquirer t ta. It did cause a with stuff that very f K-up of freight wou,rt care to rftad Where we considered 1 ne sections an jntere?t and Importance inkerlngtuf ships, readers than to the people upon which the ! the copy, we have given c the order was formation. If not exactl # . . | shape that It came to us. st of understanding v _ I shape as we deemed sumc the complex and Much of the stuff has ons served to las- the waste basket, where I / * v/v Ui ; BBSS RP ll MEMBEI 13 CHR1STMA 'his Paper foreign la- Come in and * is, in the 1 contractors There is no C( . sfinmn nf e is little]I o* a ws are in- I dingle 1007716/1 , but Gov- | |J > do all in or old can join. 1 offenders _ ",,c" Married men, e former's youths can join. of age. t to Char- ? the United ~j ? H>c Weekly , 2rtc Weekly i Viiiiam H. For 50 Weeks For BO Weeks ] Monday to YOU W 1 L L YOU \V l h L ' Kb school. HAVK HAVE "XZX $500 .$12.50 Old Store, ~ " Think, how easy well-to-do tC . i i.e. The ettort is required :e at thel ^ pnre?.?. Come in and ask na.nued"n taftes a moment. n, Intend- . 'on, R. A. r. J. Over- ______ THE rson. was state dls? ... mi . 'ou I' oe Happu 1 wl" b" If You Saoo." for his itioned in It will helnn pa Mr. Hill, ^,e have no complaint ag t for the any of the people who have sei this stuff. We recognize that ________ have a right to send it. W thankful, however, to be able t rnent ami Berve j^at they have no pow ig factors make us print it. The reason w It coming thankful Is that if we had to all this stuff. the present II support of The Knquirer would drop off. and we would hai HKAT. means to continue the publical vs. Mr. Ii. Lancaster, A Clean Army, all farm- (Charleston News and Cour lis county General Pershing's messag . .. Secretarv Maker concerning i e soldiersi ' , conditions among the Ann ited ( ioss (roops in France should put ai 1 will for- once and for all to the false ai proceeds responsible statements which er as will recently been flying about. were shameful reflection upoi Irenshaw s . . expeditionary force and its ews as a man(jer f^e secretary of wa Red Cross done well In procuring and pu to receive Ing a statement from General each far- regarding the matter. . That rumors of this sort s the Red . , . gain credence anywhere in on to use COuntry is not a very flattering t effective mentary upon our common sen id content ought to he perfectly plain to t Mr Cren- body t*ie precautions tak< safeguard the moral welfare o rom other . , . armies in this war have bet either di- elaborate that nothing even re s, and the ly approximating them has ? hppn ullnooopJ i? ,l- 1 ' , ? UOci. ? ' I"* worm 1)1 russlon of Anybody who m?y feel a doubt how these precautions are wo vorable or QUt jn pract|ce ^aH only to around him. With army c scattered all over the country with soldiers everywhere. a *TK. any citizen is in position to te his own observation the effectiv of the measures that have r.) taken against drinking and ive receiv- There is no part of the count pace from which these measures have fa That being the case, cot ent. sense ought to tell us that the ion work, thing is true of the portion o TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 1918. 1 *SHIP IN OUR S SAVINGS CLUB ask about it. ost to join. , married women, young , single men, boys and Everybody, irrespective V)r Weekly $1.00 Weekly $2.50 Weekly For 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks VOU W I U I- YOU W 1 Ii l< YOU W I U L HAVE HAVE HAVE $25.00 $50.00 $125.00 it is. Think, how little '. Think, of the reward. : about the plans, it only BANK OF LANCASTER scope. Under such circumstances ;ainst js quite the natural thing that he nt us should sacrifice his personal interthey e are eats and enter the lists, fully 0 ob- equipped with noisome trumpet and er to sharpened lance. e are jn jate eighties Benjamin print n Tillman, of Trenton. S. C., Iberal soon 'ieai'd such pleasing muBic in the ^e no good old Palmetto State. Having tion. heard, it was not for him to ques' tion the call to duty; like all other I astute politicians and public ser;or | I ; vants, he acted; and he permitted e to moral'peop'e ?' ^is State to elect him M-ican governor. In those days he earned 1 end i the title. "Pitchfork ? * i auccu, id ir-jbe earned this characterization have' many times over, for the redoubtaThcy 0,e Edgefield farmer fought his ene\ the niies with unabated fury. From the com- governor's chair to the senatorial r has toga waB but a short step and in blish- that great legislative body he has por_ remained continuously for more than two decades, hould Meanwhile the passing of the this years has left a deep Impress upon com- the senior South Carolina senator. se Much of the fiery ardor with which >verv- he was wont to champion causes en to that be favored has disappeared, f our Perhaps enfeebled health was a porn so tent influence In transforming him mote- ,n,? ? '"spa.islonate thinker. At ever any rate Senator Tillman la a much efore. b'gger and broader man than when as to he went to Washington twenty rking y?ar? a*?- Petty and acrimonious look 'deas have been displaced by level .<.rr.no neaoed and constructive views. Toa 111 P" i , and day Ren Tillman has a stronger 1 most 'u>ld upon the affections?and votes 8t l)y ?of South Carolinians than at any eness Prevl?us time in his career. Many been ?' *1'8 'ormer enemies now support v,oe him vigorously. ry in ^ ls now 8a'd upon high authority that Senator Tillman will not retire nmon from political life soon, although It same *la(* 'cequently been reported that f the' wou'd- He will be a candidate to Id be HUCCeed himself during the present free- yoar' appears certain. And many ( South Carolinians will assert with Igidly efiual certainty that he will succeed isions h'mself. That seems to be an easy, firing 'eat 'or Tillman now. albeit in the arded *oort 0,(1 days he had to fight every >se to ,nch the wray" In thfi meantime s the other gentlemen in the Palmetto ? effl- Rtate who hftve been hearing the f the vo'ce ?' il,e P??Pl? and were willing to yield to pressure and represent I the State in the senate will now exI t.erienr.. ?*- - .wi.>.umauit) aimoulty In I recognizing those voices. For few men desire to oppose Benjamin j the ltyan Tillman for office in South can- Carolina. The voice of the people t the will fade away into a whlsDer ?nd 1'n 01 nnally become no indistinct that How moat of these politicians, although pular they have eara to hear, cannot to be hear. a not many Dr. Johnson Indicted, warb- Richmond. Va., Feb. 4.?Dr. L. J. t the Johnaon, of Middlesex, N. C., was r and Indicted by the grand Jury here toig In day for the murder of his bride.