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Y . . : " --i. r PAGE FOUR ~ .. THELANrASTERNEWS (SKMl-WKKKEY.) f Established 1?32. motor mail ro burg and Augu Published Tuesday and r rlday BY THE tions at ouce. LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. ieave Augu^a Luumter, 8. C. , and arrive at CKOUGK Bl LLA CRAY UN connecting the Editor and Manager . mail line to ( 1 he New s is not responsible for the and Courier of views of Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics of general not to Charl Interest will be gladly received. that city is sin SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: in ,h* scheme Cash iu Advance. that shuts us r One Year S2.00 . . Six Mouths 1.00 ; a ro,,te bet . [Charleston is Entered as Second--Class Matter, , , .. October 7. 1005. atUho Postofflce at |road ,e"d,n* Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- Orangeburg. T1 gross of March 3. Is7?. I. . _ inignways 01 ! principal road ' Before now tli V^Vi0$V&S !"'?*<>?* w*?y if a renll-v nrst c jean be no sa ?*y Country 'T,.' of Thee. Sweet Lend continuing to of ' ihert*/" pecially if, as t FRIDAY, AUGUST 1C>. 1918. vs' 'the pri i '? seems to be tl ????^?? j,lt. into charlo , ^pJNTEN'f'R SKKMON'S, ^lie Charlesto " blocks, which Alas! the breast that inly bleeds 'government tru Hath naught to dread from outward nM .. I ho? News w blow; AVho falls from all he knows of bliss '<>11M "" Cares little into what abyss. was to be esta ?Byron. men, Lancaster our memory sc He mourns the dead who lives as .. . , , < .... .. tive schedules vS they desire.?\oung. and bids asked The had man's death Is horror; but tain that it re; the Just I we can imagine Keeps something of his glory in thOfa(e as tji0 ( dust. ? Habington. ,. _. * line. The roa Who nfc'er his bread fn sorrow ate. North Car Who ne'er the mournful midnight\tinte in tine coi hours lotte end Is an Weeping upon his bed has sate winter, howeve He knows you not, ye Heavenlv ,,, , * .... *t harlotte end Powers. ?Longfellow. | than our end. r "Dp well and right, and let the world the reason the * ' ^sink. ?Herbert. imotor mail lim be traced to t Lord of the iiving, when mv race is , run. /oad' Will that I pass beneatl\ the risjen sun^p*-/ko f - ' I HOW Mil. k Qn ffor nr.. -1 ~?.T ~ 9 b&kiii iir-Atiiu upon some I President Wi v. ? - ? ' go en o ^ rti .. . letter to Thoin - Of they good green. ?Eden Phillpotts, in London 'n^'on correspoi ?" Spectator. burp llerald. w ^ * on the South The primal duties shine aloft, like race This lett . stars; ! . The charities that soothe, and heal, ,>nntc n ' 11 and bless, for the Americ Art scattered at the feet of men. like stories recently flowers. ?Wordsw orth. j {'.lease is going .+ S* , dent about his If the street sprinkler should fall comes senator. to pieces this hot and dry weather, From the I it probably could be used for fuel t "UBs^ Wilson, how eve ^ ^-JinK t1ie ori*ir that he does n ?, las to everyf ~ . . jIL. ' . . . i , tell him any ' \ If t.lw^o-okerag government should .'u , knows that Hie become an isshc in the compaign we [ 5 , , , . , . . the administral ,? look for an abnormal demand for *H ii lows: h v soft collars. # "Let me say ' The candidates who are willing to confidence that campaign in the middle of the day * h during weather like this evidently senatorial cent jm , want the office. ",e 'cast fear i l t'. + that Mr. Hlease The Rock Hill llecord has an edi- of '',f* ndminb jr * torial article entitled; "The Hum- *''s ?l,',,'("1 ' "? ** ln'gfQuestion." We hope the Record '* 's a f. ^wgifis until next winter to spring e * 4tucl> things. KTOH1 tf + The storv. "'1 / Pershing's army in France con- Him for Fourte sists of a million and a quarter News intended \ 1 sturdy- Americans, and there are been delayed a many times ^tbat number in Persh- before next we ing's army in America. week following casioned by tin The trouble about Germany agree- from whom we ing to a conference as to the ex- not yet steren change and treatment of prisoners is have been noti that nobody will believe Germany will be made j !^ will live up to any agreement. 'stereotyping ha .?? "The Kaiser Just what are the "issues" of the Fourteen Years county campaign has not been made thur X I?avi plain, but the candidates had as well Kai ,^Tneri b0 prepared to answer as to how returned to thi they stand on woman suffrage. one ot intiin the German em Ludendorff nays two elements aro insight into tie essential td the future conduct of the Dr. I?avi-,,wh^ war: "to maintain everywhere our eount y. irnVe < fighting strength ami the spirit o! Knowledge gate offensive," hut the "spirit nC offon- household, peri alve" didn't show Itsolf around the he Interviewed Boinme and the Maine rivers, and a and the story i good deal of his fighting strength newspaper read / was butled and burned. ^^In,n ,n the lead ? V i"-' 'f ' ** ? / P "* THE LANCASTER ?? t It MAIL ROUTE. and The News is indeed fortunat nt is made that the being able to secure exclusive r iute between Orange- of publication here. ista is to begin opera- The story will appear in eacl The motor mail will sue of The News, Tuesdays and at six o'clock a. m.. days, and there will be about tw Orangeburg at noon. Instalments. This story will ir re with the motor way interfere with the serial ?olumbia. The News running in the comic section. Charleston says it Is . ? I PADDING THK FIGURES. eston s interest that , The Charleston American m it out of participating . plies the actual number of peopl 'The only thing ? , . attendance at the Hlease meeting >ut of liaving a motor .10, or some convenient nunibe ween Orangeburg and .... , .. make the crowd look large, the condition of the , . Greenwood Daily Journal savs troni Charleston to . . - .. people of Greenwood got a g us is one of the main .. . deal of amusement Sunday ou tlie state. It is the , the Charleston American's repor out of Charleston ' L..I.I 4t ' .4 .. . inc nivi.-iiiiK iit-ui HUM t- r>uiui ere have been urgent The Columbia Hecorcl says the 1 should he made into vote of Greenwood county is lass highway. I here about 3,000. "Mr. lllease,'' the tisfaetory excuse for cord savs, "has never carried leave it as it is; escountv at all. In 1010 lie lost lie Orangeburg paper 195 votes; in 1912 he lost it bv lieipal trouble now , , . , , , votes. In 1914 lie lost it by ie belgtnn blocks go, votes, and in 1910 he lost it bv ston ami a portion of votes." n road above the Vet. and at a time when 11 lea: has been cut up by charged with disloyalty, the re icks. i in the Charleston American s onders vhat has be"It is predicted that lllease dor mail route which , ,, . , , carrv Greenwood county by bltslied between Camwards of 1,000 majority, jud| and Charlotte. If . , . from the signs of the times and >rves us right, tenta, , constantly growing enthusiasm were prepared for it, ; , his candidacy." for. \\ e are not cer- 1 , , , I "At Camden," says the ltec ached this stage, but , , "the American said that there > that it met the same ,, , ~ , between 1,500 and 1,800 people harleston-Orangebu rg , , , to bear lllease. Four citizeni d from Lancaster to . .. . Camden were asked by the Can olina line is at this .... , . Chronicle to estimate the cr< ldition, but the Char. . , _ Most of them said it was aro ytliing but good. In 300. One said It was 500." r, we suspect the , , The American said the crowc is nearer passable . , . .. . Greenwood was 2.800. At the s; And we suspect that , . . , ,, , .. ratio at which the Camden tig' plan to establish the were padded, there were at Gn ; was abandoned can . .... , .. . wood 4 00 people, he condition of this | "You can fool all the people s< I of the time, and some of the pe WIIjSOX kkki s a" of ^10 tlnie" but you cant f?? I the people all of the time," lson has addressed a j as H. Daniel, Wash ndenl of the Spartan- SCISSOIW AND PASTE. hich Rives his views ? ,, ,, . . . Tlie I'-ltoats OtT Our Slmres, t arolina senatorial (Charleston News and Courier er will not likely ho A? |hp varj?t|os ()( frlghtful < harleston American, which the submarines have pract an has been printing in European waters will he pract about what Mi 'n our wa,Prs also if the Huns ,, ? , the opportunity. Now they are s to say to the Presiing our llshing boats. Some hari loyalty when he be- Jng a(orjes hay0 beon (o|(, st? that were certainly true, conceri etter from President the barbarity of the Co-man raidi r, it would appear ^ri,i?h Ashing craft and the en will seek to employ the same m ot care for Please to , ...... ods on this side of the ocean. thing. lie alieady js ono af things we have to ase is antagonistic to pect. lion. The letter fol-! Submarine operations in Amer I waters seem to have become an . , . - tablished part of the German un r that I have perfect sea campaign. The enemy seem the people of South j)e maintaining a number of sul judge rightly in the vines, probably a small nun est and I have not constantly olT the Atlantic coast, that they will believe are d,;a,il'K\ 'herefore. not sporadic rams witn long interval is or can he a friend .... . . ... inactivity, hut with a sustained nation. I lie record continuous effort. Obviously s alreadv written and necessitates an elaborate and e> to expunge it." sive offensive and defensive camp - on our part against the U-boat American waters. IS |)MI,.\VKD. . .. , - .. Anti-submarine operations on 'he Kaiser as I Knew side of the ocean will be planned en Years," which The f,aried out, it to be ho . , , , . without withdrawing anv of the to begin today, has val forces which we have sent to nd will not be begun wa|(.rs ,,robably one ok and probably the 0f the enemy in sending U-boats This delay is oc- is to bring about the withdrawn fact that the people POmP a? of the war vessels w .. , . . we have sent to tlie other side, buy the plates have must, if possible. disappoint dyped them and we bope af (be German Admiralty. tied that shipment problem created by the contii ust as soon as the presence of U-boats in these wa s been done must be dealt with but it shouh . ... handled without weakening as I Knew Him for , , .. forces In the more important n s written bj^ Ar- Ptrategic areas. is. 0. I). S.. the ? '* can dentist, who has SEVERAL VILLAGES s country The story ARE ALSO ( APTl H ' '' r (Continued From Page 1.) pire and gives one an ? e^kiy' of man he ig. sltions JflJhe other theaters none -1 c. , .1 . ( 11 I ? f n -iifil to his m - dally growing more Intense nr. >i^| ^ l>a'' ?r 1^ r 11r- Ilolshevlk ami (h rirwnK iod in ' th<' Kaiser's and with the sprtcfor ' ihe r (latently refusing to than a million AuierlcHnJv by nfrwapaper njpn, ^ ' , i,n''0 :i ri\ ol t , . soon lo bo to -Stir^pw for (jfrer therefore is now to , ~m. * rliiiv. import ant ' o*.it'nw* an ers. It is now heing pr((^rf.sH at fJo^ruitO boad?|tiar lng daily newspapers Th^Uefman and Austrian ? ??e y ' * NEWS, LANCASTER, 8. C. e in I and their suites and Field Marshal ight'von Hindenburg and General Ludenjdortf are the main conferees. 1 ,8" * (Wednesday.) Frl- North and south of the Somme elve the Germans have lost futher imi no portent ground. In the former region they have evacuated their posinow tions over a five-mile front to the Itritish north of Albert, while in the latter they have been beaten back in tlie hill and wooded district just lu 1 ti- north of the Oise river by the le in French. s jjV German front line trenches at Itca ii mnti t llimi'l Sfirrfi I'n 11 r to ' Mont and Bucquoy have been found The i untenable by the enemy in the face the | of the recent activity by the British ;reat a" along the line from Albeit to ( Arras, while the French have perj severed in their violent attacks ' "^against the CJermanB on the sector, day. which dominates the lower portion otal ot the I'icardy plain and the Oise only valley, and have encroached further upon the laissignv massif anil the Thiescourt plateau and further south 11|,! have captured the important town t hy of Kibecourt. 210 I Unofficial reports have announced the capture of Lassigny by the French and of all the German postu i J tions between the western outskirts of Bray-Sur-Somme and Etineliem ?e is by the Australians. There is; howport ever, no otticial continuation of j vs. them. Germans Hold ("liaulncs. will From the Somme to the Oise, ex "P- cept in the latter region, where tlie ging French have made further gains, the the Germans seemingly have had furover <',er success in holding back the allied troops and still are in posses| sion of Chaulnes and Hoye, upon the ord, capture of which the efforts of the vere British and French have been cenout tered. On this central part of the ~ e battle front the enemy continues to 'h'8 Rood I 011 | j deliver violent counter-attacks, and cnarge a si K'en j also has further reinforced his linejP'a'n drinl >wd-1 with men and guns, and is using j und 'them without stint to retain his p ( ''There 'sitions, realizing that their captu; charlotte, j would spell disaster. esting," lli; ! The giving up of front line to Ket bett< a,nc jtrenehes north of Albert possibly diamond-st II roc ? i??* ?? ? - - - - ? may mean mat hip German high one of thoi een- command foresees the ultimate sur-istr,.et jn cess of the American and British op- bathin' sui orations along; the Somme, and is re-|8be Wa.s rat ome ... . i a s j adjusting the German positions to busy thoro "|)'e meet any eventuality. In any event, 8Uit and ca 1 all the retrograde movement seeniing-| nfiw things 1 ly indicates that the 10-mrle salient| spins 'roun | between Beaumont Hamel and Bray.ltional are i 1 on the Somme, with Albert its apex, j Mr. Editor, now must give way in order that in*'down the f ) German front hero may cotno into would hav alignment with that in the south things ain' .1 across the Somme. In fact it seems neither are nessjnot improbable that the Germans!how many iced propose to readjust their front from j Editor; I 1< iced the Somme to Arras, and possibly seem to cr get further northward. than the pi ink i Marks Important Epoch, row-! The capture of Ribecourt by the "Well, I tries | French marks an important epoch _ nlng in the offensive, which has for ti.-> ________ s on immediate purpose the freeing of the emy region between the Somme and the eth-'Olse of the enem5\ As a gain from That the strategic standpoint It ranks ex (Continued or. Page 8.) j dir. BUD BIGGS SAYS? /; ' | "Say what you please about the big, / ) 111 ft" ' . .. ; m . ,))Pr towns. Mr. Editor. I'll take the small t Wo . town for mine." said With Hud Biggs as he came. "i L Into our gold-lined Banc W f jft I Jr. turn and stretched out | tn" louKth on the ;ten- solid-leather daven-j ? s In Charlotte the other Ihls | If things I never knew ' and before. O'course, I ped, was aware of the nd- na-! vanee In price of nearly everything. ^.(Mr. Editor, because In the very re- ^I >jert cent pas? * have had occasion to hnv MR heroiaome roas'n ears, beans, shoes and f(f other vegetables, but It was the first hlch'time ln n>V aweet young life that I We evftr pa,d KOO(1 n,oney a drink of does 'i <jiia 1 water. It was like this, Mr. Editor: a . i Thn I went into one place and bought a Avoids mod > f ora"co'a a,u' aRked the boy for a iters K'ass ?' Wflter; he didn't even know H*m I he 1 Wa8 in ,he worl,l So. I dropped n|ir into another pla e where a sweet aval y?"ne thing was a ehewln' gum be- ishiny, hind the fountain I wanted a dritii; of water. Mi Editor, and when \ >i A want .t drink of wafer, nothing sh?v i ?F() of a '1 link of water will satisfy \o* not even the host of whiskey; i | made it a point to l*?t tills i\v..*! tWi/iS? . taeed little thing soe ^he money in \tr i too l my hand before I asked for^U. and issfa 'hen 1 laid a perfectly good lit ?yn >WHlt \ iirte 1 ih? counter. She et| f?r |t. \ji. rf,\. _ ItH'I'it. . ..r,.'ifor Mni ri111u ,i in /?n ?n notn j h i "> ft of This villi W ||Pl. nTfti<- :ot iin? w. t/jr, and, i QV hr*in I If 1' Nad rosl a dollar, it'ok 1mm! 1 ? rtP;i? ,vi>r1Wt It. llul, Mr. Kdllor, d\ y?m ; t lnj?ui>poj?o M.irjt (. unnlrKham, or IVfo)-i lor* ti'i or !?o?t?*r> o> Maoltoy, or ai.. ror-. of ih* >i?b / " fllnc nob**' ' Jr wr *- * . " ' I * - ' rV"; ?> , ' fcv; 4 . . % . FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918. ? i i ii H z _ THIRD &ERTY BONDS NOW ON HAND , J* 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. * r old town o ours would have gone at it in earnest,'' remark- S tranger to the town for a ed Bud as he reached for the telei ot plain water?"' phone and tipped It over Into the Ink * barrel, "and my prediction Is that ?are lots of things about' somebody's goin' to be elected Just Mr. Editor, that are inter- aa 8Ure as the Germans are going'tO id continued turning over be over ttj^o Man a Land. t \ ir within the breeze of the don t know it s ?oin to JO udded fan. "and I saw Mollis Morton, tCunningham or se coinin' down Trade !Prar,k Clyburn or Halloa for an automobile and a ,bo House; Lawyer rfohgh. t. It's a fact. Mr. Editor. Ha,ry H,nes or Dr Potta tiln* right along down the for ,,1H senate; I don't know who's ughfare in that hathin', *olnS to be ,he magistrates and con.p. 1 am reminded by the stables In the different townships or I see as the busy world | probate 4udge or superintendent of \ d that the things conven-| education; but Bon^hody's goin* to^* , passing. A few years ago, ibe elected, Mr.^J^ditot;, you can mark^ if a pretty girl had come that. An^I hope, as I always hope, y itreet in a bathln' suit, it that the beat tuan wlna.^ They re all Q precipitated a riot, but i simon-pure, 1?0 por cent, Woodrow^KHk t like they used to bo? Wilson Democrats, and hate the the girls. I don't know K*ta?r like they the devil, and people saw the sight, Mr. that a sayln a good deal for out, loked around and It didn't j^r Editor, a good deal. eate any more excitement' * W issing of an airplane." I * a-d Mad went out to Inquire of jthe mayor if any trace had ever been see the county candidates found of the street sprinkler. ?t Slops all sh .fier / ' - i - 7 / when v Sani-lirY-5Hail*e FOR SALT and way with adultenitecv, tasteless hiph-prieed salt, i vexation and wastey/ Insures sanitation. Beautifies ble. X dsome stone enprawd* crystal pi ass cellar. Top of >stly Areo Metal. jtVon^t corrode. Requires no pol Always bright, Jean, teady for use. 1 Useful, Practical Table Necessity <3 L serve anothei/ meal without the Sani-Dry-Sfcake --for salt and p?|por. me have the sale of this wonderful v*'w shaker which we J H ,'ou to see. A demonstration will convince you of its icaster, Department Storesfl THE BfiSTTPLACE TO Mt^OP AT^TER ALfi. 7 Jfe 1 -