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f*r PAGE FOUR The Lancaster N ews 1 ( SEMI* W EEKLl.) E-slabiyinl 1 hoi!. -1 - ? at Published Tuesday and Friday BY TELE cou LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. i.<0( ijuiicastci' S. C. hin (jEOItGE HUL.LA CRAVEN Uer Editor and Manager _______ rep The News is not responsible for the ce, views of Correspondents. Short ami rational articles on topics of general interest will be gladly received. the SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: ,s c Casli in Advance. A is One Year $2.00 *3tx Months 1.00 |new _____ tior Entered as Second Class Matter October 7, 1006, at the PostoBice at sa_% Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- to tress of March 3, 1873. igen 1= Uly Country 'Tio of TSoo, 8woot Land je^S! of Lihorty." j q FRIDAY. JULY 26. 1918. lic p hop Rh( SENTENCE SERMONS. tl)e. Am Virtue is choked with foul anibi- .j lion.?Shakespeare. ed? The bee enclosed and through the ^ amber shown, ten Seetns buried in the juice which was tha his own. ml, ?Mart ial. the We always like those who admire 8tn t us; we do not always like those It i whom we admire.?La Rouchefou- jnip cauld. f Ger 1 . There is a time for some things and a time for all things, a time for sa>' \JJj- ?roat thinus and a time for small <l?'i .* ChlnfJV?Cervantes. nia pla Not to know me argues yourselves J . con ft unknown, 'The lowest of your throng. ?Milton. nev cor "They that on glorious ancestors en- . _ large, , see Produce their debt, instead of their discharge. * anf ?Young, ier v. .1 prl Distance sometimes endears. | friendship, and absence sweeteneth It.?Nowell. A > > :*>ur wanton accidents take root, and j,e(l " - grOW ' firs To vaunt themselves God's laws. ?Charles Kingsley. t,m s u t 1 myself must mix with action lest of 1 wither by despair.?Tennyson. |jj|( < Men's words are ever bolder than|SM \L Cheir deeds.?Coleridge. i4'011 ' "nd t TilK K\|> OF A PKKFECT 11KAV. "f [,, ? put I .v By operating on a mule scientists, |j,p 9 *bave succeeded in making him voiceI '^fesg.?'News Item. I * f ! moi f jtv rew can touch tne magic string, | ( [ And noisy Fame is proud to win t them,. -Alas for those who never sing, tBut die with all their niusie in il,MI them. dot ?Oliver Wendell Holmes olIt, How often, as the dusk grew near And vagrant breezes stirred the Am pool. | We've paused beside the path to ^ hear The evening carol of the mule. A simple and unstudied strain. l'(>l As from a heart that overflowed, to - It rose and fell and rose again, And died in echoes down the road. ^ win It lacked the robin's silver trill, to The melody was often bad, an{ ? "The nuances, ill-spaced, but still, - * the ; It was the only song he had. "ft had a certain zip and zest. , A quality that seemed to soar? fiut The artless singer did his best, And nightingales could do no (.or more! ^ thf fli Hut soiencffr^wlth \<s ruthless knife. frji ]' ^ These vtbran^^Hl^g,'has learned * i" to sever.'* i #r0 Tha^-I^ng t^at s|Voke tfgtojojc of life ' - zigzag bars Is stliWB^^'ever. *? ..A kijtdly and impulsive hrutljV - ht | I* silepde must jyursue his w^jrs, of 4 "The son if upon his \ips Is mute^J^j|^0f 1 % And atl his days are brayless ? Wow, science may be right, of c<j^ir.se; dol Perhaps the mule is no musi?tftn,* ^ iXrd merely brayed till he was hoarse; Tt^ gratify a false ambition. tV,/, mknOA/l Vilr.. V.,, I ll * VIIIn|/n mr uown u iiiui 117, Caruso's genius may have missed we him! , |fa And yet It's sad that he must die ' . With all that?music in his system! 1 ?James J. Montague, in New. "York Arfterlcarf. . ?^( -.> * ' * 4 ? ? 9 THE 1 HK HANDWIUTlNCi OX THE liness or the fa WALL. of this paper kt Cot only the admission of surprise the one single v the advance of the allied armies the paper. Bee tes from Germany, but fear that not agree with t :h"s army of reserves may enable ticular person d< 1 to wrest the offensive from the son a hearing in -mans is frankly expressed. The responsible man ort comes from Switzerland that court of public man newspapers express fear for paper, provided safety of their armies and that and his article strategical plan of Hindeuburg matters. No pe ompromised by the attack on the be tolerated an ne-Marne front. "Something tack" will be . appears in the strategical situa- what we call f i," this newspaper is quoted as why we have fri ing. "General Foch has been able form an important army of re- TAKING OV1 fes. Focli's attack aims to deal fhe taking o low in the back of Hoem's army and telephone 1 should it be successful it might ment W|ll hardlv ipel his army to retreat under standpoint of st unfavorable conditions. railroads were 'Foch's attack threaten? the sue- ference to the i of Hindenburgs plans." and now few 'he Strassburg Post says the pub- that the governi In general attached too great railroads merei ios to the German offensive j^t perhaps there ?ims. and asks: "From where do nrovement in I se troops come? Have the jeS3 de|av in s erican transports really brought than likely, go in more quickly than was expect- have been mar spatch than at "he Muenchner Xeueste Nachrich- war when the i says Frame is still very strong: ,,rlvate operatio t America has more than half a greater import! lion soldiers in France, and that shipments Th< English army has been recon- crnment In mov tcted and put into a perfect state. pjjes js r,.aj|V idds that it will take weeks, per- taking over the ?s, to wrest the initiative from [xisiucsii can ws teral Foch. It win doubt Phe Koelniache Volks Zietung telegraph and tl s the fact must not longer bo hid- wjjj j,0 no did 1 that German deserters have sprvico> OXcept t de use of their know ledge of the government con ns of operations to betray their 1)e wjder Conner mtry. practicable the The wonder is that these German home" movemen vspapers admit their surprise and <p|,e nation's in ifess their fears. The hand writ - j takPn care Qf( on the wall may be more cle&iiy ^ wires will pro n by them than by their rulers aervP the goverr 1 the people generally, but anoth- 0f tj,e war jn a wonder is that they were permitt- Pver before, to express their views. Perhaps the I lines may servi FIUEXDLV 1,1'ITLK FAMILY, small exchanges >Ve get an idea of how well the a part of one gi pie appreciate The News as a tor all, doubtlos t-class county newspaper every tual advantage e we send out a lot of notices of and local subsi iscription expirations. All kinds ?f operation urn messages come in answer to the trol will not be le notices. Not infrequently sub- railroads. P< ibers write: "Keep the paper Hurleson will h ting; we can't get on without it." ?f the telegraph I the real lest of the appreciation J,,st as Secretary the efforts of the management to railroads, out a tlrst-class newspaper is in number who so cheerfully "pay I*I..\XT < I ' and feel that they get their "Soil-wasting uey's worth. south s groat ec< )f course, out of several hundred Progressive Far Ices sent to subscribers whose we see evidence iscriptions have expired or ate streams are fr? nit to expire, a lew come back en foods, leaving I sed: "Stop the paper you fields, poor farn ;ht to have stopped it when our ers." Probably e was out." All of which is true, casioned by Ian I couid we have known the mind, perhaps, as that these subscribers we should hav" cation, and the e so. Hut there are many who is quite right i a little behind in their subscrip "upon the solut is, who are just as much entitled depends our wt credit from us as from the store ture; for there ere they buy supplies, and who ous agriculture ih the "paper Continued expecting The News adhf settle the accouat a little later, theory that in 1 we cannot separate these from more profitable ise who want the paper stopped ing. The man < ess they come forward and re- gle acre yield m ist us to continue the paper. ly yielded, is l rhe responses to these notices re- This, however, it I V UPnt All t lindoe InateiiAHnnu 9 Ait# o b i n <> * ,l1/ w?*v uu\i< i iiinii ui^iiwun wi *'ui lanuifs IUU i W;ir Industries board show the and cover-crops andllness of our little family, soli and preveni ere are many . yet to be heard Good soil Is >ni?hundreds?hut In time we farming, just as pe to hear from them all. It may good sense is said, coincidental with the ruling farming. ^ The the War Industrie^ board, that it continues: ita a lot of money fn these days of thousands o& on Ehf^rlces to publish a newspaper? ready learning ' nlilfMfed perhaps tjjree times as very first essen crti. aFWr cnst^ fatyjr the war,_ and be made, and ar real^f. of the fact that we_brieve their soils am^^l e Lan< - btows^i th'e best semi- "In thf^tTwfor ekly ori \ ?er In South soil-building co rollna, ww / y in ask- solute necessity r the suhV for It. cover croos are But above f -orei the J not only coyi^eT^ frelnd-Jfood# aw* " { I LANCASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. wily. Every reader and leaching away, but at the same lows that fairness Is time they are taking nitrogen, our I ratchword in making most needed plant food element,' ause the editor does from the air and storing it for tho ? lie views of any par- crops that are to follow. And of all ues not bar that per- the legumes that may be used for I i these columns. Any soil-saving and soil-building during i can appeal to the the full, winter and spring months. opinion through this we place crimson clover iirst. The he signs his name seed required to piant an acre will bears upon public usually cost less than the seed of rsonal prejudice will other winter legumes, and the crop id 110 personal "at- is ready to plow under in April for \ permitted. That is crop of corn to follow. Hut clover] airness, and that is f'nds its host use as a part of a per-j ends. manent pasture combination, though ? some farmers are using it very sucKll THE WIKKS. ' cessfully in cultivated jflelds as a ver of the telegraph cov,>r crop to be Pl?w?d under in the ines by the govern- sPrlnP? while the 'site maturity of be noticed from the vetch makea it most ' \luable as a service. When the bay cr?Ptaken over no dif-' "Rye and oats. while they of course! individual was seen are not leKunias and add P?ant people would know food to the ,and- are very valuable nent is operating the cover croPs and should be used in all y from observation. oases where the legumes are not has been some im- URed- They of course need no in-1 ho service, perhaps oculation. and getting good stands o? hipments. and more them is comparatively easy, vernment shipments The point we would emphasize| lo with greater de- hprp is that any K?nd winter covet the beginning of the ,r?P- >?*?> ??? or non-legume, win . ailroads were under pay handsomely. They are so badly j n. and this is of needed? in fact, that we simply cat.,j nice rtian private no* aff?rd to he without them. Evj needs of the gov- ery farn,Pr should aim to have his _ ing troops and sup- who,e farm covered with a winter the justification for C{n'PPt of fireen. The rewards will bo 1 railroads. Private sure to con,c. the form of richer 1 v ! .....1 4* j iinun, fiuya uuu uiuic prui- ? less be so with the '<s* (i le telephone. There , TO THK VOTKltS OF UXNTASTFU erenee in the local COl'XTY hat eventually under Several months ago 1 concluded trol there will likely temporarily to retire from politics, tions, and as far as but at the insistence of a great many r, "telephone-ln-every- of >'ou 1 was persuaded to give the tfl matter further consideration. Now, t), t may be carried out. , . . 1 however, after very long and earn- 0j terests first will be ps( thought. I find that the demand however. and the of other duties Is so great that f ai bably be made to must rorego the privilege of offering ^ unent in the conduct for re-election as your State senator. e( My voluntary retirement from this ? i broader sense than m , . ... office is in accordance with my ni statement to the people during the Rl aking over of the last campaign that, that if elected. ^ s to strengthen the I would not become a chronic office a , which then will be sef ?*?r- : sr It is a matter of pride and gratifi- m reat system, and, af- , , , . ... cation to me to feel, indeed to know, s will prove of mii- that my term of office has been mark- I to the government ed by efficiency and real progress in! cribers. The detail the administration of the county's d' rler government con- affairs and that my offlr,al rGcord [!, has met the approval and endorse? unlike that of the # ? ,, vi ment of a vast majority of my fellow. istmaster General citizens. 1 desire to extend my e the directing head warmest thanks to my people for so and telephone lines, signally honoring me with the office. n , .... . ... and still more for their practically sv f McAdoo directs the P. universal sympathy and support in my efforts to worthily represent the . county. I). Recce Williams. r* ItF.FN CIUII'S. July 22. 1918. al m Is the agricultural Who Is To Illume? inomic sin.- says the (Ro(.k Recor(l ) ti nier. "Everywhere most shocking state of affairs Is ('( s of It. Our muddy divulged In the report of the State 15 lighted with plant of Charities and Corrections , , ,, ii?i on the condition of the York county I 01 behind them gullied almshouse. This report states that! is and poorei farm-1{j,ere nro thirteen children there and, a great loss is oc- tliat live of the tliirteen are either-! I<] d-washing. as great, teehie-mlnded or idiots. That is a | a of lack of diversifl- frightful situation for a public insti-! 1111ion. It seems to us the almshouse!111 Progressive farmer m presents a fruitful field for missionn its statement that ary work pi ion of this problem We hope the people of this county ?' lole agricultural fu- will road the reports published in fu'l <( can he no prosper- "''s 'S9ue on the almshouse, the 01 ....... . ,, jail and the chaingang. They ought!1' without rich lands. . , , " , hi to be the subject of very serious 'i es strictly to the f|JOUgh( by our people. ?' tensive farming is than extensive farm- ALLIES STILL DRIVE th tvlio can make a sin-. AGAINST THE GERMANS ore than It previous- ! . , (Continued From Page 1.) P' the modern farmer. I r( must be done with- pressure against the Austrlans. In Q uiui'fi i rom m6 soil ioicot i cj?ui m iii#iu rv?#mo iinu pi i must enrich the P*rls- considerable gains are cred-jle k ited to the allied troops and also the w t i s Mashing away, capture of Important positions and gi necessary to good prisoners and guns, good machinery and An enemy submarine has sunk an c< necessary to good American fishing schooner off the y< ' Progr^slvef Farmer Malne coa8t- 1 n 'Happily,, ?. however, | ROW'S Thl? f jo r best farmers are al-| w# offer 0ne Hun<Jre<1 Dollars Reward -I H hat fertile soil is the j 'or *nL.cV^..?f ?a!arrt! wai.Stnftot bo A 0 cured by Hall s Catarrh Medicine, tiak if profits are' -eJlall's Catarrh Madlclne has been taksn ei 7? *ify catarrh sufferers for the paat thirty- , i^JTi kiux steps to save five years, and has become known as the r~, moat reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall's ss :dd to?thelr fartility. catarrh Medicine acta thru the Blood on hl , tha Mucous surfaces, expelling the Potk of soil-saving and gon front lt? Blood and heallna the die- sr veri-cropa are an ah- portk na. ?* . J>k ' *>.T#r rou h*Y* u*?n Hall's Catarrh ? tlC T)R8t of all medicine for a short tlmo rou will are a 4. Sr. . . ! irreat Improvement In your fteneral . 9 *U'|ieH. for they, health Stf.rt taking Hall'a Catarrh Med!- h; - anH ,ai011, 0,ne ut onc? *n'l K*l rid of catarrh. Sand tl ana plant for testimonials frsa. m Waahlno I .I CHENEY A CO.. Toledo. Ohio. ol wa^nini, , gold tgr ail L>ruc*tats. 7ic. n. ' * " FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918. THIRD LIBERTY BONDS NOW ON HAND Subscribers who have paid or who wish to pay cash will please call for the bonds. Subscribers who have made no payments will kindly do so at ONCE. THE BANK OF LANCASTER _ LANCASTER, S. C. 1 ~ IZZZZZZZIZZIIIIZZZZZZI^ZZZZ i 001) FEELING ON j exemption board of his county. He P\RT OF EVERYONE sa"' 1,6 vvas K,ad to oon,e to '-ancas _ * ter so that the people could look into (Continued from Page 1.) ,hft face of the next raliroad com missioner. ^ f maligning and tearing down tho Mr. Arnold was followed by J. T. laracter of his opponents. "I want McLaughlin, of St. Matthews, who le office on my merits and not on pledged, if elected, to support Direcie demerits of my opponents." de- tor-(Jeneral McAdoo and the Wilson ared Mr. Sapp. I administration, and said that while Mr. Soarson said he wouldn't make Mr. Vowell spoke of 2 5 years expe- , ay special appeal to the people of Hence, "I could teach him railroad- J ancaster county because he believ- ing." J i their minds already made up. i Alfred A. Richardson, former chief If you hold Sapp as the people of game warden, was the next speaker. ly home county hold me, you will He said he was running on his own ipport him heartily, and I don't merits, and that while the railroad JXv lame you." Mr. Searson said he was commissioner doesn't cut much Ice staunch believer in Wood row Wil- now, the war will soon be ove?* and >n and the administration and that the readjustment period will be on 0 was not a Rleaseite. and he will have plenty to do. HQ a Commissioner of Agriculture. criticized the newspapers and said The next speakers were the can- Jh?y (,i(,n', R,ve h,m n 8quare deal dates for commissioner of agrlcul- m ?>rintin? <>r ^e racket with .re, H. I) Morrison, of McClellan- Govornor Manning over the office of He; W D. Garrison, of Summer- <'hief *ame warden "? advocated lie. and H. Harris, of Anderson. th? aho,,tion ,ho Rvade crossing g i r. Morrison was the first speaker S a nialtor safety. ( id he mentioned the part he took 1 establishing the state warehouse "ERMAN ARMY TRAPPER stem and the efforts of ttie farm- IS WASHINGTON RUMOR s union toward bringing up the rice of cotton. He talked of the re- (Continued From Page 1.) instruction period after the war ?. nd said we ought to prepare for it sitl,ation. we have a superior oppor )W i uiiiiy n?r onservauon. Mr. Garrison said ho was a prac- ral farmer, a graduate of Clemson (.KNMtAI*S I>HI\ ING rllege. and now in charge of the THMR MK\ Mkltt ILhSSI.Y. tperiment station at Summervillc. W,th ,ho American Army on e ndvocated diversification of Aisne-Marne Front, July 25. With rops. "A farmer who raises his 'h(> ai('PS ?' 'he Soissons-Rheims J itables," said the speaker, "is a sark ro,n'ng steadily closer together, pod farmer, but the man who the Qerman <rown prince', generals M ,i , cotton alone will never make driving their men merciles ly in success" an offor' '? hold them off long Mr Harris said he was the first enouuh '? extricate the armies | an in South Carolina to call a threatened at the bottom, north of eetlng to start a fight on low- 'he Marne. ice cotton, in 1 ! 02 and 1903. The Thn American arul French troops lice of commissioner of agriculture, arp never far behind the retreating ^ tmmerce and industries, he said, is '"r a. a"'? ?h? vicious rear guard ic of the most important offices in actions are not sufficiently resistant .e state because it touches every enable the Germans to proceed in msehold. He spoke of the neglect 'hft orderly manner planned. [ the commercial side of agricul- I)n,n,ana. north of the Marne, # ire and said this was the feature nnf* paat ?f * hateau-Thlerry, the tat needs attention. uermans counter- attacked, taking ? . _ . . the position, but were promptly,'J Railroad Commissioner. , . ' L driven out. They occupied Treloup,-> J The next forty minutes was occu- west of Dormans and have held ,t ^ led by the five candidates for rail- M|nor advanoe8 have been made >ad commissioner The first was 5y the aM)es |n the woodg ,n thftt . L. Smith of Walterhoro, who ,part of the sector, while further to laced his case on his record in the (hft east south of Rhelms, there J ,glslature during several sessions were addU(onal all(ed successes. ( here he said his mistakes and the Thft Amer|cans have occupied V aod he has done was recorded. Courpoll on the road to Fere-Kn- L J T. Voweli. of Columbia, follow- Tardonois. and the French positions i Mr. Smith. He spoke of his 25 havfi htM.n advanced until Oulchy-^V Bars experience In building and De-Chateau is dominated by the^^^^ talntenanc? of railroads and tald MA n the only candidate for the Nearer Soissons the Germans fall- flH fllce who had practical experience. od j0 bo|d ajj their positions, not-^^w; e said he was a full-blooded withstanding reinforcements andajjff I jnerlcan and 100 per cent Demo- their * At. Ho advocated the elimination n in estimated uuofhciallv tonighj^^F r grade crossings as a matter of that the enemy losses are more Jl ifety and would substitute over- 200,000, of which 80.000 were lnBt j Bad bridges or underpaaaoa. He i#l- n feted try the Americana. The prls-jfcfe 1 > advocated better sanitary condi- oners alone number over SO.uoo, and ' ons In depots and on trains. the losses in doad and wounded are mjT H. H. Arnold, of Woodruff. said ho appalling. ' ^ | ad served Spartanburg county In '1 ? le state legislature, wWlfji member Miss Kat^leeg Oienroe. of. the 1 f the board of directors of the state eight week Y. Ks f A. club, was la M % yiifentlary and a member of thettown ya^erdafr. J .-40& jl, . ' -C <