The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 05, 1918, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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"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.