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o te-irV The Press and Bancei W W. A W. K. BRADLEY, KiJllorn ABBEVILLE, S. C. w Published every Wednesday at 52 n jn*r Id advance. Wednesday, April 17,1912 The Republican Nominee. Two weeks ajjo it seemed certain that Talt would have the Republican nomina tion. Roosevelt lost Nev\ York, his own state, though he claims that the delegates are uninstructed. Since then Roosevelt has carried Pennsylvania and Illinois, two very strong Republican states. It Is said that the committee that will seat or unseat the delegations from the several states favor Taft, ho having about thirty-eight out of about forty-four. The probability then is that Taft delegations from the South will be seated, unless Roosevelt ahows overwhelming strength in the northern states. From a Democratic standpoint the nom ination of Taft is desirable. Taft has shown himself hostile to tariff reform, while Rooseveit, contrary to his past con duct, has declared for radical tariff re form. He has swallowed every demand of the progressive wing of the Republican party. His disregard of fixed principles assures the progressives that he will riot hesitate to "about face" on the tariff, and become a reformer of the reformers. Should he secure the nomination, then he will certainly prove a dangerous opponent. Of course everybody knows that what-i ever strength progressive Republicanism has in the nation Is duo to the work of Senator LaFollette, but the Republicans have no qualms of conscience in sacrific ing LaFollette for What they conceive to be a more popular candidate. Whoever the Republicans may nominate, since Harmon's chances seem doubtful, it would seem the part of wisdom for the Democrats to nominate Underwood. Ho, more than any other man, is identified with 3ane and equitable tariff reforms. The sentiment of the nation is divided now, not so much on local sentiment as on honest tariff reforms, and Underwood is well in the limeiignt. uur motto snouiu be Harmon, if possible, and if not Hai mon then Underwood. The New S. A* L. Depot. The new depot of the Seaboard at Abbe ville has been finished and is in commis sion. The building is pretty, attractive, with all necessary conveniences, well heated and ventilated. As it stands it is an ornament to the city. In a way it i? the property of the city and county. It is put there for our convenience and for the convenience of those who travel this way/ If the public generally considered the depots as their own rather than belonging to a great corporation there would proba bly be less abuse of such property. A depot should be well kept, clean, sanitary, pleasant in every way to those who travel, and those who have to do with the up keep of such buildings should have the backing and encouragement of the author ities and of the public generally. In almost every community there are vanda's. There are individuals who seem to take a delight in tearing down rather than in building?at no place Is the work of such persons more in evidence than around public buildings and in a depot which is not policed. There should be some way to punish willful, malignant vandalism. When peo ple refuse to do right they should be made to do right. Abuse to public buildings should be made a misdemeanor and those guilty of such an offense should be made to suffer the consequences. Abbeville has two good depots now and railway authorities should leceive the en couragement and aid of the public in keeping them so. Look Out Fishes. The seining squad is about to get busy. Last week a new sein and new gill nets were rigged up preparatory to piscatorial adventures galore in the near future. Long Cane and Little River are proposed points of attack. Last summer Sheriff Lyon introduced a new fishing sport which for a better name, we will call fish bat tling. The Sheriff and others found ponds of unnumbered, unhonored'and unsung carp over on Savannah which they har vested with sticks instead of seines. Abbeville's seining squad is made up of artists in that line. They can catch more fish out of Little Elver in an hour than a rice pauuie auic can eaten out ui tne ree Dee In a day. They don't need seins, they catch them with their hands. This may sound astonishing, but we can prove it. The ordinary Individual is careful of where he puts his hands under muddy creek wa ter, not so with Abbeville's fishing squad, a water moccasin inspires no fears and creates no interest to them. They are at home in the water, sons of Neptune, all. Should you wish to really enjoy an outing of a day get into the good graces of the fishing squad and take a trip with them to the river. If you don't feel more cheerful after your trip take the next train to the nearest hospital and re port to the interne that you are suffering with something, but that it has not been named?tell him to make room, you want to spend a year. Big Fruit Crop. rTnloas Knmftt.hinc nnforoaMn hn.nn?nB Abbeville county will have enough fruit to do the State if it is all taken care of. Those who have fruit should inaugurate now some plan to save It and turn It into money. We are most prodigal peoDle with our resources of any people i the world. Year before last enough fruit rotted in this county to do the county's people for two yeai-rf. It looks as if the same thing will happen again this year. We pay no attention to our fruit crop. If it makes all right, if it dces'nt all right. W e never spray or do any thing to take care of our fruit trees. If we did we would produce finer fruit. Many Planting Cotton. Notwithstanding the short time the far mers have had to prepare their lands many are planting cotton. Those who plant corn on bottom land are planting their cotton first; those who plant corn on the uplands are planting corn first. My alfalfa mule feed for your mules, cheaper than com and better too. See the analysis. W. D. Barksdale. -/-.v.; COLONEL SWEEPS KEY STONE STATE. Roosevelt and Wilson Clean Up in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, April 13.?The primary election in Pennsylvania resulted in a landslide for Col. Roosevelt. As the re turns continue to eouie in the victory for Roosevelt adherers becomes more com plete. Of tho GO delegates elected in the 32 dis tricts. fully 50 are pledged to vote for Roosevelt. Added to this is the probabili ty tliat the Republican State convention, which will choose 12 delegates at large.to the national convention, will be controlled by the anti-Taft element, Insuring at least 02 delegates for Roosevelt froin this State. The Republican organization leaders are stunned by the overwhelming defeat of the Taft candidates and have nothing to rhv mirn rrlimr Mk> insult. United States Senator Penrose, the recognized leader of the Republican organization and the lead ing Taft iJoomer in this State left the city eurly in the afternoon and boarded his yacht at Atlantic City where he is safe from interviewers. COLONEL'S FORCES CELEBRATE. Tonight the Roosevelt campaign mang ers are celebrating their victories to the fullest extent. They are claiming more than 02 'delegates for the returns so far given them. With the exception of one or two dis tricts, Woodrow Wilson will have a solid delegation .from Pennsylvation to the Democratic national convention. In this city Taft got seven of the 12 na tional_delegates. Reuben 0. Moon, who has been a leader on the Republican side in congress for sev eral sessions, was decisively beaten for renomlnation. His successful oponent is George kW. Edmonds, Republican Key stone candidate. NOMINATED BY EVERYBODY. Congressman Michael Donohue, Demo crat, accomplished the remarkable j feat ftof winning the Republican as wen us uie ueiuuurauu nuu neysLuno noml nations in the Fifth district. This district is largely peepled;by workingmen Returns received up to 2 a. m. indicate that the Roosevelt delegate in Allegheny county, including Pittsburgh, to the Chi cago convention had been elected with the possible exception of one. State Highway Commissioner Bigelow is leading his op ponent. In Philadelphia the Republican organi zations were earlv in the field with the claims that they elected 12 Taft delegates from the six congressional districts in the city. United States Senator, the head of the organization, surprised his party asso ciates by leaving the city at 4 o'clock in the .afternoon, going to Atlantic City, where he boarded hi6 yacht for a cruise until Monday. Before leaving he said: "I can speak only of the city, for it is too early to get reports from the entire State. I am satisfied thut every Itapubii can delegate selected iu this city will be for President Taft. Roosevelt may got 12 or 14 delegates in the State." From other quarters the claim of unfair treatment of Keystone party voters was made and it was apparent that the Roose velt leaders felt that the exclusion of Key-{ stone voters from the ballot box had an unfavorable Influence upon the chances of delegates pledged to their favorite. The Keystone party is a third party made up largely of. citizens of reform tendency who are opposed to the regular Republican or ganization. Its main strencrth is in Phila delghia, where it bas polled a heavy vote in the past few years. Regular Republi cans claims that members of the Key stone party have no right to ask for a Republican ballot because they did not vote the Republican ticket at the last elec tion. The Keystone party, being only a State organization and having no national alliance has (no national delegates on its /ticket. Raining Rocks. We print in this issue of the Press and Brnner, a thoroughly trustworthy state ment from Mr. J. M. Craft, who has rela tives in this eounty, to the effect that a shower of stones fell on his plantation, in Elbert county, Ga., near the Savannah River. While this is an unusual phenomenon, it is not at all unnatural. Many persons liv ing have witnessed at night what is com monly known as meteoric showers. Seen at night, they seem to be so many small starB falling on the earth. The stones are heated by friction with the air. in their de scent to the earth, which gives them a glow when seen at night. Meteoric stores are fragmentary par ticles thrown off from some planet. They assume an .orbit of their own, and float around in space until they |come near enoughto;some larger body like the earth, Jupiter, or Mars, when they are attracted by gravity to the larger body. This was the case in the shower of stones in Elber county Georgia. The fragmentary stones came near enough to the earth's orbit to be attracted by gravity and they were drawn to the earth. In the planitary system, there is a dis integrated planet, and the fragments .have a regular orbit about the sun just as Mer cury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus etc. For I many centuries astronomers calcu lated that to complete the planitary system there should ,be an undiscovered planet within a certain area of the heavens, but no telescope could reveal the planet. Fi nally, in the last century, when more pow erful telescopes were discovered an as tronomer,possibly in Gei-many, discovered a largejfragment of a planot in the very area that astronomers had calculated they should find it. The fact was reported and then astronomers in California discovered other large fragments, and from time to time these were discovered in such num ber as to account Ifor the missing planet. These planets are known as asteroins, and they have a regular orbit about the sun just as the other planets have. The missing planet or asteroids were discovered betweeen the planets Mars and Jupiter. Who knows but that the fate of that planet will one day be the fate of the the world, and that .the destruction of the earth by fire as predicted in the good book will be literally fulfilled. There is wisdom In the Bible that the finite mind cannot comprehend. EGGS?Thorough bred Indian Runner Duck eggs for sale. Price $1.50 for 11. C. J. Hearst, City Barber Shop. f\' in inrn Yifoi'iiM i Interesting Letter from Mrs. R. E. Hill. Abbeville, S. C. 4-16-'12. To the Abbeville Chapter of the U. D. C.s. Ladies: It was ray pleasure to be present on the occasion of the unveiling of the Monument to the Women of the Con federacy erected in Columbia, S. C.? by the gallant men of this State,which event occurred on the 12th inst. I While I am not a native South Car olinian it has been my adopted home for the last twenty-five years and no doubt will 'be for the remainder of my life?I therefore feel as if I were to the manor, born a South Carolinian. That being the case I take as great pride in the fact that South Carolina | was the first of the Southern States to give substantial expression to her annreciatidn of the noble heroism i and self-sacrifices on the part of her women iij support of the cause so dear to all true Southerners, as it is poslsb'.e for any native born South Carolina woman to feel. My home during the war, was in that part of Virginia where some of the bloodiest battles were fought and where the country for the greater part of that memorable struggle was over run by either one or the other of the contending armies, and I there fore became familiar with much of the hardships and sufferings of the wives and mothers of those gallant men, who were away from their fam ily, fighting the battles of their coun try, and i; have often thought especial ly of late years, that these women and the thousands of others who were ex posed to similar hardships should not be overlooked and forgotten; it there fore did my heart good to look upon that beautiful monument erected at the capitol of the State by the men of South Carolina, commemorative of the sublime devotion of the women of this State in their Country's Cause. But ladies, the prime object had in view in this communication, was not to give expression to matters in con nection with the "monument" but to endeavor to correct an erroneous im pression which seems to have found lodgment in the minds of i-ome of your number. You will doubtless recall the fact that at the last meetlag of our Society 'it was stated by a member thereof, that she had been informed that the condition of the inmates of the "Old Soldiers Home" established and main tained at -the expense of the State was anything but satistaotory. At the suggestion of our worthy President, .1, in company with Mrs. W. A. Calvert, visited the Home while in Columbia, for the purpose of seeing whether the conditions ihere were as reported, as having a number of Old Soldiers from Abbeville county as inmates thereof, we naturally felt a lively imeieoi. iu iuc uiumi. I am pleased to be able to report that we found everything In a most satisfactory condition. The rooms and in fact every thing about the premises were as clean and as neat as the average private home. We learned, from conversations had with those inmates from Abbe ville county and others, that the fare and their treatment generally were all that they could expect or desire. Each of the inmates was neatly clad in a suit of grey recently furn ished by the State, and all of them presented-the appearance of being well provided for and as happy and contented as it is possible for them to be situated as they are. We met and naa consiaeraoie tain, with Mr. John B. Wilson from this county, who it is said was one among the beBt soldiers in Geril. Lee's army, and who is now past 80 years of age, and we were delighted to see him looking so well and so satisfied with his treatment?he really looks young er than he did the first time I ever saw him, which is more than 25 years ago. . . As these Old Soldiers are, as it wore, the wards of the daughters, I think it might be well for any of them when visiting the city of Columbia to make it a point to go out to the Home and see whether these old men are getting 6uch treatment as they should and as the liberal provision made by the State for them would warrant and demand. Yours sincerely, Mrs. R.E. Hill. Why bend over a hot stove all summer when for a small cost you can buy from us an Oil Stove and make your cooking a pleasure during the heated sea son. The Drrgan-King Co. PRETTY BRIDE. Lovely Abbeville Young Lady to Marry in Aiken. * 1? _t? no rvvotfv n hi'irlf" ilk J1IW iUtti.lt> V1UU4V1, p?vwv; w ever made glad a lover's heart, will enter on the great sea of matrimony, as may be learned from the reading of tho ticket of invitation, as follows: Mr. and Mrs. William Oscar Cromer will give in marriage their daughter, Marie Samuella to Mr. Cecil Hodges Seigler, on Wednesday evening, April tho twenty fourth, at half after eight o'clock, First Baptist Church, Aiken, S. C. Frohman Knew. It was reported to Charles Froh man that one of hlB most prosperous male stars was in a fair way of get ting married. "I don't believe It," answered the manager, who Is him self a confirmed single man; "he will escape; he was always a good fight er." An Index. A man Is known by the importance of the things which he gets angry aboutr-Puak. -saw PRAYER By Rev. WilKam Evana, Director Bible Coune, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago TEXT.?Lord, teach us to pray.?And He sold unto them, When yo pray, say, Oflir Father.?Luke II: 1, 1 No subject can be of greater Im portance to the Christian .than that of prayer. It is the Christian's vi tal breath. ' Hl8 spiritual nature cau 110 more live without prayer than his physical nature can live without breath ing. "Let me breathe or I die," says' man; "let me pray or I die," says the Chris tian. Prayer is tbe native air of the child of God. Prayer has been defined ae "An of fering up of our desires unto God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with the confession of our sins and thankful acknowledg ment of his mercies." Yet prayer is more than this; it is a dialogue, not a monologue; It la a vision as well a* a voice; ft Is a revelation as well aa a supplication. Prayer is not a mere venture and a voice of mine, but a vision and a voice divine. In the heart of every one prayer is a sense of need, but a sense of need (s not prayer. Player is asking for a felt need and asking God, not the uni verse, for it Prayer is more than an asking, it Is a receiving, a hearing, a learning of God, a converse and com munlbn in whioh he has much to say and we have muoh to hear and learn. The day in which we live Is so full of possibilities that &n Intelligent man will not consider anything impossible. Tears ago Morse was considered a fool because he asserted the possibili ty o( communication between Wash ington and New York. Likewise Mar coni was laughed at when he first ad vocated the- idea of wireless teleg What Is Prayer? raphy. Time and experience, how ever, have proven that these men were wise and not foolish. , Prayer la made possible to the Christian because of the revelation Christ has brought to the world, of the Father. It Is only when we un derstand the true nature of Qod that prayer becomes possible. This reve lation is brought to us only through Christ's interpretation of God. The god of science and philosophy does not furnish any Incentive to pray. Bain, the scientist describes the god of science as a double-faced some thing?mind and foroe?which lie be hind all natural phenomena. God Is Called Father. It Is a remarkable thing to notice In almost every instance In the New Testament that when Qod Is referred to In connection with prayer be Is called Father. This In Itself is an encouragement to prayer, as well as Indicating that prayer Is a possibility. It is expected that a child will ask Its father for things It Youl(* not a stranger for. The fatherhood of God la not only a motive to prayer, but at the same time a thought which makes prayer both desirable and possible. Do I And it hard to do as some peo ple tell me?namely, "to pray all night"?let me hoc oe aiacuuiugcu, but remember that "like as a father" God deals with his children. I do not ask of my own child that he agonize all night when presenting to me a request But you may say, "I am not Bure that I obey properly." I reply, "Like as a father." Does an earthly parent not grant his child any peti tion until he properly obeys? "Like as a father." But, you say, "I do not understand God." Who does? Shall a father not grant a child's request until he Is understood by the child? Then the child's request will never be granted. "Like as a father pitleth his children, so the Lord pltletto them that fear htm." But the Father to whom we are to pray Is an almighty Father, one who Is absolutely sovereign and om nipotent There are no difficulties with God, and we must always re member that "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Whatever may be our opinion of the unchangeablenees of God? laws, we must never forget that every promise made to the pray erful soul 'shall be fulfilled by a sovereign God, even though ten thou sand of what we call unchangeable laws need to be (so called) broken. Is It not true that we ourselves break laws to supply the needs of our own children? If my little child Is dying of a burning fever In the middle of August and calls for ice when the temperature registers 100 degree, If I know enough I can make Ice, even though the temperature stands at 100, and answer the prayer of my child. If zny boy Is falling from a third story window, and hearing his affrighted call I rush to his help and catch him ere he touches the ground I not only save his life, but I break what may be called an unchangeable law? namely, the law or graviiauon. ?o may we believe all things are possible with God. Sounds Reasonable. "If you want to communicate with the BpirltB," remarked Jocular Jim, "I suppose the first thing to do Is to learn the dead languages."?Browning's Magazine. 8tatosrreo and Politicians. A statesman Is merely a politician with whom we agree. Neither Is nec essarily a leader of progress. Both are flies on the wheel, and we honor them In direct proportion to their rid tfM ability.?Life. Here Is \ = Bi You can feel sur t?ennv's value t>oss into your Shoes?t] tie detail necessai shoe making has b considered. BmnssHB Every Eff to make a store a tho made here. We want be or our snoes. Parke tamEoaEsraniaEXJKsmaaGaaBGBKranBsaBK] 65 dozen Towels at special prices. Cash Bargain Store. CANDIDATES County Supervisor. We are authorized to announce W. A. Stevenson as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Supervisor, subject to! the action of the Democratic Primary. Auditor. m We are authorized to announce Richard Sondiey as a candidate for re-election to the Auditor's office, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. v We are hereby authorized to announce J. E. Jones as a candidate for Auditor, sub ject to the action of the Democratic pri mary. For Coroner. We are authorized to announce W. L. Darracot as a candidate for the office of Coroner, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary. We are hereby authorized to announce R. H. Armstrong as a candidate for Coro ner, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary. * We are requested to announce Mr. M. J. Link as a candidate for Coroner, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. We are authorized to announce H. W. Bowie (better known as "Dock") as a can didate for re-election to the office of Coro ner, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary. I hereby announce myself a candidate to the office of Coroner of Abbeville County, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. R. W. Smith. We are authorized to announce P. H. Williams as a candidate for the office of Coroner of Abbeville County, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. We are authorized to announce W. A. Gallagher as a candidate for Coroner of Abbeville County, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. Superintendent of Education. We are hereby authorized to announce 15. M. Cheatham as a candidate for the of fice of County Superintendent of Educa tion, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary. We are authorized to announce John P. Gibert as a candidate for Superintendent * tn thr> notitm of the ?>1 ?iUUUailUU, ou?.'j?.vv WW v..^ __ Democratic primary. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of County Superintend ent of Education, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. C. E. William son. * ?i-...- I Bassett China for your tabic is mightly good cliina. We have; it in lull Dinner Sets and open, stock. Open stock means that you can buy one piece or a dozen at any time and so make up your set gradually. The Dargan-King Co. Gety our muslin underwear1 at Cash Bargain Store. My alfalfa mule feed for your mules, cheaper than corn and better too. See the i analysis. \V. D. Bai ksdale. J Get your Millinery at Cash Bargain Store. Shoe your feet with Oxfords from Cash Bargain Store. > the PI iy Sho Whether you g W. L. Dor at $2.50, i or a i Walk O at $3.50 or a Boyden at $5.3 e that every ible has gone aat every lit ry in perfect een carefully ort That Can roughly satisfactory i ; your Shoe thoughts 1 r <v i HARRIS & Funeral Directors and TELEPHOP Our equipment will give our pat] polite attention e day and night. NIGHT FHO w. w. G, CORN IS HIG H I G I The best informed peop] Cash Corn this year, whic price for mule feed for ye tracted in October for 2,5C which is corn, oats, alfalf. out as an even balanced r? or any other feed. We o; ton or $2.00 per 100 lbs. We will be glad to 'shov cheapness, also analysis. W. D. BA1 Your doctor will tell you that . the common liou.se lly is danger ous, because of the disease it brings. You can keep him out 1 by screening your doors and windows, and we can sell you these articles at a low cost. Come in and let us show you. The Drrgaiu-King Co. Beet Trunks and Suit Cases cheaper at Cash Bargain Store. es - ;et a pair of our Lglas Shoes 53 or $3.50 'm pair of vers Shoes , $4 or $5 pair of 's Shoes 0 or $G . . n C: Be Made >lace to deal is being to be pleasant and to Practical Embalmers JE No. 149 is new and we ons prompt and >very hour in the NBS A. Harris No. 96 A. Calvert No. 105 C. Gambrell No. 185 ' H and GOING IER! e say we will have $1.25 :h will make the highest ;ars. Seeing this I con )0 Sacks of Alfalfa Feed, a hay ground up and put ation?cheaper than corn ffer this at $jS.uu Dy tne 7 it and its advantages, iKSDALE Moving Stairways. The advantages of moving stair ways include the following: (a) There Is no waiting, (b) The service is con tinuous throughout traffic hours, (c) Passengers are carried practically to the point of their destination, and the necessity for long connecting pas sageways is thus avoided, (d) Mov ing stairways can deliver the same numbor of people for a short or long riatr, wuciciw ?? ?.? ?t??? Is dependent on ;hf number of lifts and the depths of tho shafts, (e) In case of breakdown passengers can walk up a moving stairway aa up an ordinary staircase.