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The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, 8.C. Published Every Wednesday by W. W. Bradley, W. B. Bradley, President. Vice-President Wednesday. April 3, 1914. CANAL TOLLS QUESTION. Elsewhere in this paper are copied two very strong editorials from the Washington Post, a leading Dem ocratic paper, eulogizing those members of the lower House of Con gress who fulfilled their party pledge and refused to reverse themsel ves on the canal tolls question, merely be cause the President requested it. Amongst those prominently men tioned as abiding in the Democratic faith were Speaker Clark and leader "Underwood, and It may be added that whatever >honor is theirs in. this respect is also due our own Congress man, who in this as ever, is first a Democrat, and only subscribes to the doctrine of expediency when that doctrine is Democratic. President Wilson stated to the Na tional Assembly that there were in ternational complications which made it imperative that foreign ships be given equal rights with American "vessels in crossing rne canai. xnen a9 Speaker Clark very aptly replied, Congress should know, in order to be able to weigh those complications. President Wilson never gave the In formation. If the Republican party through' its representative John Hay had not foolishly pledged this nation to give English ships equal rights with American ships in crossing the.canal, and if English, then the ships of all t)ther nations, as a corollaryvthe issue would never have been.raised in the present Congress. The question arises, then, is the Democratic party in -honor hound .to-carry out all the bad bargains .made by. the Republi cans. If party means anything in:a Republican formal government, it means-divergence of Qpinion-onputH l^c questions. It is <a well* known fact-that the Republican party, the old Republican party, tb? party of wealth and special privilege, the-par tytbat (negotiated this treaty giving England extraordinary and unwar ranted rights - in Panama, was ;it? large measure subservient to English capital. Can the Democratic party, whoee doCtrine has been and should continue to be "America for Araeri cans;" be expected "to continue thfe subserviency to England ? or should !t correct the errors of the Republi can party ? Should Representatives 1n>Congres8 keep faith with the Dem ocratic .party and the American peo ple or should they ignore their,party pledge to follow t*hePresident blind ly? Clark, Underwood, Aiken and some hundred and- .fifty-nine 'other Representativessaw .their duty with their-party rather than with the President's policies. If any Repre^ sentati ve's vote: needs-explanation it .is the rinan who ignored his party pledge. The President has the-confidenea of the people to such an extent, and he has proven himself to be a man of such surpassing character,-such won-i derfui taet and power, that people have eome -to accept his opinion as tight,-merely ^because it is his opin-| ion. The Supreme Court oT this .State* and even of the Vnited States,; .in-th? Wf .-ivmhjrlps rtf nrfioe dents, have reversed themselves,: "have torn down their own defective* edifices. What wonder then that loyal Democrats in Congress do' not feel bound to carry out Republican! agreements with England, that they had no part in making, against vrtiieh they have always protested and fbr Which they are in no sense responsible? Should they right an egregious error or perpetuate it? England needs no help from the American Congress to maintain her shipping supremacy. She and "Ger many do^practically all of our freight and passenger business now on the high seas. The shipping interests of the United States needs stimulating, and this little bone might 'have con tributed something indirectly to the npbuilding of our woefully defective merchant marine. Again, but of less importance, is the feet that free passage of Ameri can coastwise vessels will tend to build up coastal towns especially of the Southern States; and Will reduce rates now charged on fruits and oth er Western products, by competing with transcontinental railroads. Since the people of the United i States have spent their millions on the* Panama canal, millions taken in taxes, it is unreasonable to deny those people some of the advantages for which they have paid. If all na tions should have equal rights in the Panama canal, then they should have put up some of their money for its construction. THE PICKS EYE EXPER IMENT. It would be interesting to know what has become-of the experiment in a Baltimore hospital in which the cornea of a pig's eye was'grafted on the-sightless human eye. If this ex periment is successiul, then it would seem that the limit of surgical skill haaabout been reached. At the time the news item ap peared in the papers, the Columbia State raised the question: "Would 1 the man who sees with a pig's eye see as a pig sees and think as a pig thinks." He then proceeded to an swer his own question by saying that the impression is from the mind and not from the eye. That the eye is ' only the medium of communication. This looks reasonable, but unfortu nately science does not bear it out. Newspaper men know all things, in cluding surgery and phychology; and The State is usually so oorrect in its editorial utterances that the Plress and Banner would be afraid to take issue with it, but for a concrete illus tration of its error. While the case here cited does -not appear in the medical Journals, it is accepted hereabouts, without ques tion, because it is so consistent. A young man had his eye knockea out, and as the story goes, a rabbit's eye was put in the place of the lost member, and sight was restored. Later the young man was strollifig with his sweetheart along the batiks of a shaded brook, when suddenly a small dog ran out of the bushes and barked at the couple. The yotfng man looked back at him, with his rabbit eye, and dashed away at breakneck speed, leaving his best girl to battle it out with the dog. He explained to her afterward that though he loved her better than fife itself, and if he had thought tocldse h is rabbit eye, would have fought a cattle pen full of bull dogs, but that he nor any other living man could look at a dog with a rabbit eye and stand his ground. The girl forgave him : and as "The State" was not in possession of thdBe surgical and psychological facts, We excuse its error. REFLECTIONS ON SPRBWxi . Editors are human, though thqy never grow old. When the "voice of the turtle is j j- i-t- - ? ...i ikA nearu mime jhuu ; wiieu iuc gtean leaves adorn .all-nature with a fresh ness symbolic of the dawn of time; when the plowman turns the sod to receive the planting; when lasy eat tlb browse on the new grass ; whetv nature is a medly-full of sights anti sou ana pleasing, to the senses-; thje editor renews his-youth, revives thtej sentimental in his nature, and inflicts prose poetry on his readers. Hark ing back to that period in life?when all men feel the wooing of thi? uMuse4,reven -if they can not flt-their thoughts rythmically iiito the chan nels of written expression, the man beeomes achild again. Spring is youths season. "In tht Spring the young man's fancy lights ly turns to thoughts of love." Then who will hold the editor to an ac counting if those little recesses of his heart, that have been under cover of the cares and responsibilities of life; break forth as a bud in the Spring time. He lives again with his littld friends of bygone days. He wacM the stream again chasing the min4 now from haunt to haunt. He Wan-i ders again through meadow and'oveil rugged Jiills picking the first wild flowers.- And perhaps he recalls'how timidly he slipped his floral glean-l fogs to -an even more timid 'littlq companion, who in turn concealed! them to escape the ? ridicule of the older despots of Jthe school. Who! would not revert to those daysof in-j nocent chiidhood-^-the Spring tiine dfl life? Btrt natnre hasa more serioual mission 'for this recurring season] Out of the cold bleak winter season! vegetation emerges as if from the grave. It'is a renewal of life, that' makes man forget his failures, and' turn with hope invigorated to the pi-ospects of the new year. It is the bow of promise to the farmer, and to1 men of the varied industries and professions that are dependent on the fruits of his labor. It is the anchor to which, by . analogy, the mind clines to explain the mysteries of res-. urrection. ANTREVILLE'S ATHLETICS. To our way of thinking, the ath letic show given as Antreville High Sehooi^s special, in the opera-house performances last week, was not only the best show of that night but one Of the most entertaining features of the entire two day's exhibition. The Antreville boys were trained almost as professionals, and young Erwin added the clown feature so well that the'onlooker felt"he was in a real circus. Athletics are no longer looked-on as a mere amusement <in schools. They have their double mission of popularizing school work, and de veloping the pupil physically, while his mind is being especially devel oped. Where this feature of school training is not overdone it proves a <- - -at 4. i.u? 4U^ grtfuinujuiicl iu me iiniuiug ui uic minds of young people. The Antre ville school seems to have caught the true intent and to be using it to the best advantage. Easter Egg Hunt. -Th9 ladies of the Methodist Church want every child In Abbeville to meet them at Klugh'a Park on Friday afternoon/April 10th, to hunt Easter eggs, beginning at three o'clock. Admission 10 cents. . Five attractive prizes will be given to the girls and boys respectively who find the greatest numtar of egge. Underwood Probably Elected. Unofficial returns indicator that Under* wood has been elected to thcUniHed Stated Senate from Alabama, over his competitor Richard P. Hobs on. Comer is leading Kolb for Governor of that State. ; iVi MI IIII If iiru'ili i"'afini I ifi I 111 II mir mmairn ' VILLA'S GAME CHICKENS, , A correspondent to the Columbia State, Sunday's issue, says that Villa gets his game chickens from Mr. S. J. Hester, who lives just below An derson. Yes, just below; in the sense J that Mexico, too, is just below An , derson. Mr. Hester is one of the best men i to be found in a day's journey, and he raises the finest game cocks in the world, more than a thousand a year, and he lives in Abbeville county, some twenty-five miles below the Anderson line. If Anderson and Greenwood keep up their policy of claiming things in Abbeville, past and present, a com mission will have to be appointed to determine which of them is to get our court house?perhaps. Congressman Ajken js strong With the Postoffice Depart ment. ' Wyatt Aiken, congressman from this distriet, seems to be in strong with the postoffice department at Washington. Several d^ys ago when The Daily Mail carried a story to the effect that the car rier system in Anderson would be curtail ed, according to orders from Washington Mr. Aiken hurried over to the postoffice department building and secured a recall to the order. A day or so later The Daily Mail carried a story that the inspectors had recommehded that the clerical force in the Andereon postoffice be trimmed down some; that the number of clerks is excessive for the amount of work to be dispatched. Yesterday afternoon, just as this newspaper was going to press, a tele gram was received from Wasington stat ing that Mr. Aiken had called on the post office crowd again, and that he had secur ed their promises not to put in effect the recommendation of the inspectors. The carrier service and the present force in the postoffice will continue just as former ly, and will give the same satisfactory ser vice to the patrons of the office.?Wash-1 ington Post. CIVIC CLUB. ' The Civic Club will hold its regular meeting Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the club rooms over Philson & HeDry's store. This meeting will be devoted to Health, and Mrs. E A. Andrews, of Green-, wood, will be our guest and talk on the '"Care^and Maintenance of a Hospital by Club Women." Mrs. Andrews is president! of-the-Hospital association of her town and has been nyost scccessful. The doc tors Qf the city ' and those interested in Health are moat cordially invited to at tend. Mrs. W. P. Greene, President. Mrs. A. M. Stone, Secretary. Examination of Teachers The Teachers Examination for Abbeville County will take plaee in the Court House on Friday, May 1st, 1914. JAS. M. LAWSON, Co. Supt. Education. ' 'A&beviHe.'S. C., Apr. 8,1914. For you young j entered into Mr. I grain contest It dress your oats. **? ? ?? J ?J /i xiunasuuitji^y tu ul If you will p away our 8-4 . is as cheap good you can put on. 10-3-3 an are capital goods late cotton with it -open earlier otherwise. "You stand no cl of getting a prize dress." The Anderson & Oil Cc Anderso iimmi.nmmrftr'i'fV a gjaBSM Importance of Healthy Kidneys Abbeville Eeaders Should Learn to Keep the Kidney8 WelJ. The kidneys bave a big work to do. All the blood in the body is courning through the kidneys constantly to be freed of poisonous matter. It is a heavy enough task when the kidneys, are well, but a cold, chill, fever or; some thoughtless exposure is likely to irritate, inflame and congest the kid neys and interrupt the purifying work.* Then the aching frequently begins and is often accompanied bysomeir-l regularity of the urine?too frequent passages, sediment or retention.) Thosands testify to the wonderful merit of Doan's Kidney Pills, a rem-] edy for the kidneys only, that has been used in Sidney troubles 50 years. You will make no mistake in follow ing this Abbeville citizen's advice. J. L. Clark, Fort Pickens, Abbeville,, R. f\. savs: "We have uaed Doan's Kidney Pills, getting them at P. B.tipeed's Drug Store, and they have brought such satisfactory results that we can recommend tbem. They were taken for backaches and other symptoms of weak kidneys. Prompt relief was had." 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