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J# * * PAGE FOUR TheLancasterNews (SKMI-WEEKLV.) Established 1832. handing seeming Published Tuesday and Friday BY THE warmer LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. out of , Lancaster, 8. C. . to the GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN Hig ,a(( Editor and Manager ? delegati SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: , One \ear $2.00 Si* Mouths 1.00 lina leg Entered as Second Class Matter P?ltirs October 7, 1005, at the Postotiice at recently Lancaster, S. C., under act ot Con- #ll gress of March 3, 1870. wun U1 ?? withdra The News is not responsible for the . views ot Correspondents. Short anu | as lUllUUtll til I Itlvo UU U'i'iv.) Ui 5UUCI tli I" MI it I U I interest will be gladly received. uses ra "My Country "Tia of Thee, Sweot Land principle o? Liberty." . _ somebod TUESDAY, FEB. 12, 1!>1X. 'sah' wl _ help vol !one of \ SENTKXCE SEHMON'S. jate, and ; 1 win ?c Nature gives to every time and No bod season some beauties of its own; no, | and from morning to night as from mood, b the cradle to the graves, is but a succession of changes so gentle and 1,1 ' easy that we can scarcely mark "<* begi their progress.?Dickens. at the 1 The Ne< Most of all the other beautiful nlng foi things in life come by twos and himself threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and uo/ an< cousins, but only one mother in all sessed o the wide world.? Kate Douglas his elec Wiggin. pendous inx-uovor It has been often said that truelnian woi honor is not touchy, hut generally 11imation indifferent about slander; neither . ity of h the coniuion sense nor common experience of mankind warrants thi-. sti"es S( theory, supposing: touchy to mean judging: sensitive. The most pure and deli- to be in cate, those who have labored most , earnestly to deserve the best repu<< . i . , yet, who tat ions, are apt to be tremulously alive to every kind of obloquy and ? injurious suspicion.?Hubert Walsh. Till: * When KIHTOIIIA LKTThi.s. your las x What has become of the old men- ' ace, Overproduction? | paper j ^ I that do Our idea of getting something for Ledger nothing is the salary of the legisla- *^n<' s like som t01'- The Led ? <%> he is at ? , does 1 i k? Funny how a man can grow in (>np public acquaintance to be called know w . ..n-. . i ,, sat dow merely "1 he Colonel. n(M. Rnd on the b It wouldn't be surprising if some dish me ger pre; of the editors got mad and refused t;irp<. ^ii to ride on the old trains. 'aw roni portion ^ Villi lt??i Good-bye, old Heatless Mondays; j about ii ... . . editor. il yon ever visit us again we liopc it's ninety-three in the shade. j + ' Til |1 The arrival of a shipment of b. v. d's. probably would do much to-! . . s ambular ward relieving the fuel shortage- , the dep * when li Luke McLuke must have been - was su ft here. He has discovered that "A. I depa i tei Chance lives in Lancaster, S. C." t shift fo Though there is nothing so funny i driver. about that because it's not the kind j i hospital of chance you take in most towns. ^ to the y The ger: 11 Greensboro -Daily woman (News vo,unfe says: spir,f 11 The person who raises his spi ~ . * cheerfu Own tender, young Spring onions. ,wo ni1 And artichokes; were oi Strawberries, spuds, ,'1' ir ' triotisn Pie-plant, oyster plant, played. Peas, snap-beans, cauliflower, vehicle lul,",""n' soldier Yea, rous'n'ears. cabbages (From which sour krout. the *phP Finest fruit that grows); iting tl Beets, parsnips, yams? South Can snap his finger at seme r> Famine and tell Doc. Oarfield where he gets off. To And in that gladsome season Thank There won't be any blackberryless Buslnei Or watermeloniess Or eantaloupeless If th Days. vertisir HK&/K?fw?l??Hr mm it wlm mmhob McIAlRIN?AGAIN. THE John L. McLurin is still We p ; out newspaper copy and, ed to f( :ly, it gets warmer and wearine as each statement is ground tigation his typewriter and passed on stands s newspaper composing room, a long < ?st is an "open letter" to a the cou on of Anderson county gen- sion of members of the South C'aro- of sent islature and former sup- tor, but of ex-Governor Blease, who ment ci acquainted the ex-senator j the acci e fact that they wished to ! trial an w their names from a peti-jglad. king him to become a can- In th 'or governor. Mr. McLaurin finds m flier strong language to il-W'iseons his position, and telling th 1J indicted n gentlemen (hat lie infers the moi eir letter that "what you brought not a 'bold, outspoken, lion- has bee truthful man to advocate the the peoi bs of the reform party,' but people? Iv with brain and the gift of details ( 10 will prostitute himself to i'ollette, l elect tlio hrnther-in-l i ? cousin ; 'on to the t'niteil States sen j b'ollette cheerfully inform you that ! senate 'o you in hell first." ' people o ly will accuse the ex-senator fidencc. icing possessed of a fighting dangers, ut he seems to have unleash- sntisfact jiggost puns before the bat- people < lis. In fact he's "shooting him, bu 110011." Mr. McLaurin is. if! refuse ti rts' memory fails not, run- QUittal, 1 no ofllce; he elminate?l a reflect from the gubernatorial rare state of ifement a couple of weeks verdict, 1 though he may be pos- l|I><>" tin f the qualifications wherein event, tl noii woum noi no a "stu- 1,1111 WUI blunder," though that of unprovei nor Illeuse or Senator 'Till- Ooveri ild be. there has been no in- senate s of even a remote possibility and b? is running for the United He very mate. The Honorable John, that if i from recent events is going United ! i whatever polities there is by the V be he'll run for something should e i knows? hand, if + senate s I 1)11'KKIIKNT TASTKS. him. T] you go to a hotel you eat fiove >se things that appeal to '1'" or'e v to. The (jaliney Hedge; should 1 t's the same with a news- against iust cast aside the r rtieb-s | Hie sena not appeal to you. The< dispose says: l'!p V to Mr. ? - doesn't by their ie of the things he reads in ' t|ie aena Iger? Neither do we. But liberty to pick out what he. the part * and leave the rest for some I rannot o ? is less fastidious. Does he hat they call the man who,'nK peat n at a first-class hotel din-|state UI1 beginning at the first item ill of fare, tried to eat every i drawn, a ntioned thereon? The I^ed-! would hi sents a varied bill of fare' lies a week, but there is no''"K ipellng you to devour every of it. Just put aside what ii't lelish and say nothing And n Antl don't swear at the iuformat It's both wicked and foolnewspap ernment IKK BK.WK PATItlOTM. "press e related that the driver of an tlvities < ice in Chester drove up to Informal ot to receive a patient, hut to send ie learned that the puticnu ering with meningitis hastily li [1, leaving the sick man to |)e dean r himself. So much for the jn the Two nurses from a Chester' this si volunteered their services patch, oung man in the face of dan-J being considered inexpedient! ? | him to the hospital, a noble! who has sons in the armyJ'TIs but ercd lier home. There is the tV< aat is going to win the war? "ut lit of sacrifice, the spirit of That In lly facing danger. Those slR rsos and that godly mother And i i the firing line in defense of dei ountry, and there is pa- e ' 1 no greater than they dis- sor Though tlie driver of the ^?r ' of who deserted the suffering ' Qr is nearly a slacker. sw; Of hi senate killed the hill prohib- art lie shipment of liquor into \t*| Carolina, thereby avoiding I Of w eaily worth-while legislation. + f would Doe. Garfield: Dear Dor.? That you. (Signed) American *o ,8 If 'twe + he . , , Id e ie government can get its adroi ig free, who blames It? . THE LANCASTER NEWS, LANC. CASK OF IAFOL1JCTTK. eople of America are Inclln- C arget and condone after a 8? of legal tangle and luvea- Vsd th A murderer generally (Gi i better chance at trial after Now that delay in bringing him before are drying, 1 township coi rt. At the time of commis- , , . eral u^e of I a crime there is usually a lot jn our op|t iment against the perpetra- implement \ as time wears on the sent!- dirt roads. ystalizes into sympathy for pels t,li8 stl . , . one man wl ised and if he is brought to . in one day d acquitted, most people are , roads pass ^smooth that ie case of LaFollette one!*urfc to trav uch to think about. The ! pleu3ure" !roads at thi in senator has been gravely . .... drag will da by the senate, charges of j an{j one ,|r >t serious nature have been ; roads now against him, but his "trial" many hands .. i i -i-? j . ... 1 Therefore, v i ucia;cu unu iieiU.VLHI UIII 11 I slilp oommis ?le?the rank and file of the1. . . , . ' implement ii -are beginning to forget the js possible t jf the crimes charged to La, Now, the governor of Wis- flie advances the idea that La- (Spar should resign hts scat in the n js easy and ask re-election by the of those whc if his state as a vote of con- j oVer *be roa . . , . . ... tv when the The plan is frought with i i her the road; though it might work outjHhape (hoy , orily. Suppose that his easy to i endorse him and re-elect ( conditions h t the United States senate.over "1C CC1 ... ? . . weather of t 0 accept their verdict of ac| to dry the r? would not that, in a way. be ( fQr ,ho, ion upon the people of the dition. The Wisconsin? or accepting the daily coping would it not he Ii reflection ",c " . _ . , . ... is simply toe 1 senate? And in either complisli mu le charges against the sen- J|m.p ls Riveil aid remain unanswered and Spartanburg i. log drag, or nor runups says that the ?miuui see ic hould lace the Issue frank- "" ro'1*' once. Wit hi wily and take action upon it. in Spartnnln rightfully takes the position | good shape ; i grave offense against the snows came States has been committed a I,u'dic roac Wisconsin senator, the senate xpel him, i>ut on the other the senator is innocent, the ** ISSt hould as fiankly acquit tiat position of the Wiscon(lroni the rnor is rightfully taken and q-j,,, jn p,.,, rill deny that his suggestion painful insis >e carried out. Charges j that the we; I.aFollette were bi'QUght in i ora ma>" ',p . i .1 .1 . . ' cultured to and the senate should tind plenty o of them. Should the poo- w?h |h|l ph, ,'isconsin endorse LaFollette tendencies ol votes, and the charges in seldom gets te stand without action on|wnr neW8- ^ , . , ... ?f women v of the senate, The News tendencies in onceive of the senate tnak- freshly hi us e with the people of that(tory and the less the charges are with-, talk on any ind in that event, somebody I we'*'lpd witl , . , . 'a frequent o ive blundered by ever point- ? , cannot find accusing finger. ! ?al furbish I surely, he is iow the committee on public loc' on "ie r< ion, not satisfied with free a*e . ., . , . hut househol er advertising for the govage man in t , sends the newspapers a Wrtmen dition" entitled: "The Ac- j talk about ?< :>f the Committee on Public '> know* abr tion." George Creel ought out cuts of himself. _ ^ ' (From the i .u . .< Prof. Geoi tw reunites the sidewalks to of the Ag ed of snow. Nothing is said station at ' ordinance about ice. Why | been invited lip? -Richmond Times-Dig-1 Agriculture Easy! Because of the Ice. 'here and mi sweet potaU * tion. This ItOHK OF YKSTKHDAY. worked ou,t processes fo a red rose that she wore one sweet potato jht, more possib it hath touched her snowy, been though inded throat to be the le my dreams I see as if by potato, a pr< ht: ed the part so to me this bud doth moie government, lote take an imi ?n a fresh and fragrant bios- tion's war n may. omy. The t hath marker! the throbbing I rounty. the her heart, mous sweel k or alow its pulsing jn the probably h ay sweet potatr r?r e:norlo~s. Oh. had It the worked Into varieties of me v hut hath cubkned *> probable th throb. profit In th< 'horn Hho thought that gave have been r cheek Its flush. product. 1 this blossom of Its spcret roh which has 1 in its fragrant heart it doth Tuskegee hush. "some one re of me she thought, then possible to aven knows In drying ver bless thee, withering red toes." In I ;e. of this nun A. H. Taylor. product to ...J..,.!.**.. I... ...... ?i ASTER, S. C. XX)D ROADS. 1 MI ie Road Drag Now. ifTney Ledger.) m||\|r the roads in the county I HKI^ ve wish to urge upon the tnmissioners to make lib- ??? the spltt-log drag. It is, don, the most valuable A#UffIC vhlch can be used upon *?*1 One reason which im- / JlCYC itement is the fact that th a team of mules cau render many miles of t/lllglt: able, make* them so < aM / / instead of it being a torsi over them it will be a i nyr '1M... ^e .i?I 1 Wit ing himself. Steadily. WaH required to i being distanced, pass- thro,,Kh 11 snowfall ad by those whom a feetl and occa8?om believed fit for nothing d<'pp*r ,han ,h,s ' Id drudgery. The aver- This remarkable he avernge gathering of ',y an<1 ent*?rance uncomfortable. They "S truc^? comes at > maffy things he ought <ountr>' ifJ looking ut and does not. the prob,em of fi w'hich is menacing . .. ,ut>l supplies of i <ro and the I'otato. ! ..... I our country, ilov Charlotte Observer.) much in the tonna ge W. Graver, director' ricultural Experiment Tuskegee Institute, has by the Department rf at Washington to call | ike demonstration of his fl M > products experimenta-j 1 K colored professor has % W as many as eighty-eight r the utilization ot the >, finding in It vastly llities than had ever t possible. What seems I 110?( lader is the dried sweet aduct which has attractdcular attention of the ^ ^ find this article may >ortant place in the na- 2SSSSSSSSZ program of food econpeople of Catawba w "" home of the most fa- I ^ t potnto produced, will " e surprised that the :> is possible of being j|e is a 8 as many as eighty-eight r (. . food products, and it Is npoem at they will find more xve * kKSOI ? dried potato than they The weatl securing from the raw (late rain or rhe Rural New Yorker, jecome Interested In the w results, believes that I i? ?t.A a ii. ?? ^Mmmm 1 inr ouum win nnn it liuiu develop a great business I and selling sweet pota- I bringing the possibilities I L'h neglected 8outhern I the attention of the 1 tUIIUIllUIl Ui I ut' | I 8 time is such that thc| v/ilfffc? n ' its most effective work JrUUlllO II ag operated over the! of aae. will do the work ofl ? and do it better. j re urge upon the town- *<>c Weekly 2.">< isioners to see that this *'or ^ Weefca I'01 s liberally used while it YOU WILL VCI 0 do the most good. | HAVE $5.00 .$ Split Log Drug. tanburg Journal. ryy . to believe the statement ' lli > have occasion to travel _ # ds of Spartanburg' coun-j ?TlOYt IS 1 y say that since Decom* have been in the worst. /"? lave ever seen them. It Lome in understand that similar ave been existing alli lQ.k S O V mntry, but since the' he last few days begun i ???? >nds out. there is no ex-J n to remain in that con-! county road forces a re I with the situation to leir ability, but the task "You'll He 11 ? great Tor them to acj jf yQU ^ ch unless some assist1 t hem. Every farmer in ???????? county owning a split able to borrow one. | s. ?i . .. I world, this negro i i it that some portion of ... . . .. . mg the country i dragged and that at ? . , . , 1 he negro seems n a few days the roads I I more about the s h k can ur oa?'K III as i . ? '\\o ever knew, is they were before the I if every man living on! I will do his bit. OiH'ning u * (II. W. Slausor The country hi )|(S AND PASTK. | what heretofore II possible ran be d ... , .. thirty-tlme gov < nltured Sex. ... .1 v- . I fresh from the f;i i Indianapolis News.) | ... ... completed the 51 salon forces itself with Baltimore under tli tenre on sensitive man . . ., . less than two wee! iker sex of the present . . . Th ire is not! known to posterity as ... . 1 startling in the sex. Women seem toi , , . , , avera e maintaine f leisure for keeping up . . . . ... trucks were not fc llosophic and literarv , not the intention i the day. while man . . .. the quartermaster' much farther than the n. . , ... .. any records. The I he apparent familiarity ... .. ture, howover, lies nth new writers, new ...? . . . . this schedule was 1 art and thought, their . . . . . , . , dead of winter, d bed knowledge of his. , most severe bliz classics, their ability to ... . . . , .. snaps that certain subject is. for tne man ,. country have expc i the cares of business, . . Temperatures of 1 ccasion for wonder. He , , . ,, . zero were encounte time for mirn i . . 5J1 "jT ' "r' 11 i i '? v>"J ? i TUESDAY, FER 12, 1?18. < LMBERSHIP IN OUR iTMAS SAVINGS CLUB in and ask about it. a is no cost to join. I women, marrxea women, young in join. y ed men, single men, boys and in join. Everybody, irrespective ; Weekly! 50c Weekly $1.00 Weekly $2.50 Weekly 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks U W I L Ii YOU W I l< Ii YOU W I U I- YOU W I U L HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE 112.50 $25.00 $50.00 $125.00 iw easy it is. Think, how little required. Think, of the reward. ? 1 end ask about the plans, it only noment. * THE BANK OF LANCASTER appy institution Is serv- trucks themselves that we will find n great purpose, the saving in freight cars used, as to be telling us in the number of tlat cars which weet potato than (lie trucks will release through their ability to reach their destination un der their own power. If the govXew Krn eminent requires 30,000 trucks, I most of which will be built at a i, in Leslies.) . ,, . , great distance from the Atlantic is learned that seaboard at least 15,000 freight cars seemed the im- wjjj j)G rt>qUired for the transportaone. A train ol tractors will be employed to force eminent trucks, tlon to their destination, 1 ictory at Detroit, , . , It is not difficult to foresee the 10 miles run to . , , ... time when powerful engine-driven leir own power in . . . ... , plows througli snow drifts and thus is actual time. . . , _ keep country roads open to traffic nng particularly twelve months in the year. tifty-mlles-a-day d, although the ? ?rced, and it was PRESIDENT WILSON of the officials of TALKS TO CONGRESS s corps to break remarkable fea- Implies to lleeent Speeches of <Jerin the fact that man Chancellor and Austrian maintained In the Foreign Minister. uring one of the z aids and cold Washington, Feb. 11.?President portions of the Wilson, addressing a joint session of irienced in years, congress today at 12:30, replied to 5 degrees below recent speeches of (lei-man ired and the train Chancellor von Hertling and Aus train Vnrnhm \f iuh c us way I v.v.d.? *uiuifi?i vaciiiiu. v/ii from one to four' Hertling's statement is vague and illy drifts even confusing and leads to practically no were encountered.' conclusion, the President said, and test of the abil- ' is very different in tone from of driver, as well Uzernip's. a time when the The President reiterated that the for a solution to United States had no desire to inreight congestion terfere In European affairs and t the food and would disdain to take advantage of many soctions of, any international weakness or dissever, it is not so order to impose her will upon ange carried on the J other people. Tin AnTin i it i unurutiAiN WILL BE WITH US Jay and Wednesday, binary 19 and 20 to Days Only pecial representative of Brown-Sloan Optical ille. S. C. . He is an expert, a specialist, and MALLY GUARANTEE HIS SERVICES. her does not affect his work, see him on above ~ *1 :aster Drug Company ij LANCASTER, S. C. % I II