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! 11 o I H v l * 1IU1 The Finest! t> o o o o Don't wait o % St o o o o 0 Dress Goo ^ SO in. Serge _ V 50 in. Panama ^ 36 in. Serge ^ 36 in. Black Serge a 36 in. Black Poplar 36 in. Colored Poplar __ 36 in. Plaids 1 Mill o <> cents worth oi o o most real vali o e <> t g O GOOD ROADS AND INNS. (By American Highway Association) There are a good many "Yankee notions" that are really worth while, and the most of them are of a very practical sort. For example, something over twenty-five years ago the United States Minister of Switzerland was a New Englander who was an enthusiastic believer in the out-ofdoor life. He thought that every man ought to go out into the fields and lanes and wash his lungs with pure air and lift up his soul with views of the open country with its marvelous variety of growing things and the vastness of its stretches of hills and valleys and forests and streams, all held under the unmeasurable bowl of the heavens as if it were in the hollow of the Almighty's hand. He had been a friend of Thoreau and practiced what he preached. The opportunity for out-r Jwas so &reat in Ui-UUVI ICCivavtvii ..Mw - _ 0 Switzerland that he asked a fellow- j townsman, a young engineering stu- j dent in that country, to make a walking tour of Switzerland and write his experiences for a number of New England newspapers. For three months the young man footed it over the roads from Appenzell down by j the Lakes of Zurich and Lucerne over into the St. Moritz valley, to Como and Lugano, back again to Lake Lucerne and then to Chamonix, through the valley of the Rhone, over to Grindelwald and Thun to Berne. Everywhere a comfortable inn, or tavern, made the evenings as pleasant as the days were delightful; everywhere men of distinction were encountered tramping along leisurelv and enjoying a kind of life that was a revelation to the young American. At times his walking companions were famous German professors, for several days a high officer of the Union Pacific Railroad journeyed over the same paths with him, two of the leading physicians of EXCURSIO VI SOUTHERN The Southern S< FROM ABBE $19.85 New Orleans, La. Tickets or 3, 1916. $19.85 New Orleans, La. Tickets < , April 30, 1916. $16.60 Washington, D. C. Tickets May 12, 1916. $ 5.15 Atlanta, Ga. Tickets on sa 1916. $ 9.55 Lytle, Ga. Tickets on sale 1 April 1; limited May 6. 0 sale April 3; limited May 8. 1916. For complete information call on tick* W. ldrec In The Land, Arc Great< m m m : until you are yles; you shoi just as gla ds Silks! Si __ ..$1.00 yd 36 in. Blk. Taffeta ... $1100 yd 36 in. Blk. Taffeta 50 yd 42 in. Crepe de Chine .50 yd 42 in. Georgette Crepi .25 yd 36 in. Striped Silk _ .25 yd We are sure to pie .25 yd will come and give ut inery f real value for eve iQ for the money, \ ILSC Boston kept company with him at I another time, and men well known in English professional and manufacturing life were with him on many stages of the tour. All this would not have been possible without good roads. The American would not have had any companions on the road otherwise. He would have found it impossible to "look up unto the heavens" or to view the entrancing landscapes had he found it necessary to pull his feet out of the mud at every weary step, and there would have been neither health nor enjoyment in the long tramp through mountain passes and sheltering forests and by the lolrnc Vi-isl/^an in flip OlUC VI ucautliui lUiWO luuuvt. ?it V..V heart of Alpine fastnesses to hospitable inns at the close of day. As Samuel Johnson wrote: "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn;" and it was in the inns of Switzerland that the pedestrian found his sweetest solace after his days in the open twenty-five years ago even as to-day they stand with open doors to welcome the passing stranger to hospitable fare. They were run then, as they are run now, to heighten the delights of tourists on the tramp or when journeying by other means. They were not only Duin to taKe care 01 creature gumforts but they were all, even the humblest of their kind, bureaus of intelligence for the information of their guests as to the best way of seeing the country with the least expenditure of effort. This little tour into the heart of the world was made quarter of a century ago and many thousands of other Americans have followed the same itinerary in all the years that have followed; and some of them at least have brought back to their "dear America" suggestions of how the unequalled beauty and resources of their own land might also be made an open book for the entertainment and profit of a teeming popuN FARES A RAILWAY srret The South. VILLE, S. C. i sale March 24-25-26; limited April >n sale April 11-12-15-16-17; limited ? on sale April 12-14-16; limited le April 23 to 28; limited May 2, tfarch 31; limited May 5. On sale n sale April 2; limited May 7. On On sale April 30; limited June 4, ?t agents or address: R. TABER, T. P. A., Greenville, S. C. IS U1 i Now Here at thi: ist Pleasure Is Sh ready to buy b lid see them i d to show you illrcll ...",,.00 7d Ready-Made . 1.25 yd 1.00 yd We have them in In e ___ 1.50 yd __ , in all the leading colo ./D ya a.e you if you price# ffom 0( a trial. A splendid display stylishly dressed y will see in this dep ry dollar you spend 1 ve^wil prove to you c COME IN . I " ! i latior that would like to live out of if doors. It is only within the last thj few years, however, that any effort jn has been made to develop the scenic en glories of the United States, and the more the subject has been studied an the greater the enthusiasm with frj which it has been received. During ^hi the present year committees and promoters of one sort and another have ? been tiocking to Washington with gl stories of the wonderful lands of jC promise lying within a few days' Jj! journey of all parts of our great do- nj main, mountains of majestic height, jO forests of illimitable reach, waterfalls of exquisite beauty, canyons of Sj almost unfathomable depths, fields of ffl everlasting snow, slow-moving gey- aft sers, miles of flowers and herds of 1JC well-night forgotten creatures of the S wild, all inviting the world, weary of 9 the artificial ways of men, to the U| open spaces where Nature revels in W her wildest moods. At the White ZQ House, for the entertainment of the % .President; in tne tneatres, - to me ||great delight of packed audiences; 31 in the clubs, for the enlightenment of the scientists who do not know jjj how it was all done because there is jS nothing in their theories by which it Jf] can be measured, and to the newspaper folk with the hope that they ffl might be able to intermit "Mutt and Jeff" for one day at least for the UZ people who take an intelligent inter- n est in substantial things, and before jnh committees of Congress that they Uj might appreciate the importance of S opening the wilderness to the obser- -71 vation, if not the occupation, of men, US these missionaries have been proving |?j their speech by their pictures of jTI what the eye could see if only good Jji roads were opened to the wonder i|j lands beyond the further hills of the i 3 impatient East. I "f| Secretary Lane, of the Department | of the Interior, under whose pro- > 9 gressive management the wild re- > UZ gions of the Linited States has been , S placed, has been doing his part to 31 make them available for the improve- IC ment of the people. It has taken twenty-five years for even a few pro- j gressive communities lying near by | to appreciate the economic possibili-1 ? ties of highway tourists as distin-1 3 guished from railroad tourists, and Jfi to make provision for them in the p; out-of-the-way places in the great parks and reservations of the Nation- "fi al Government. It has come to QJ pass that in some of these great n parks roads have been built over Zh which almost any sort of traffic can Ua be conducted and inns have been Q" built for the entertainment of man Sy anH hpnst. so that in these places it IC is possible for stage or automobile jV or horse or footman to penetrate in- j to the very heart of things in our j Alps that lie beyond Italy. There ( ; is "money in it" for the forehanded s 2 who will do their part, but the build- 1 ing up of the wilderness is not pos- | f sible without the building of good r 1 roads. I 1 It is only necessary to look through l the pages of an automobile guide to | see how thoroughly many of the lar- ? J ger hotels of the country have recog- J nized the importance of the tourists | J as an aid to business. And the day r ] is coming in the districts which have 2 I good roads where the smaller inns, BT o ? <9> New s Store Awaitin; owing Them To efore you cor right away. 1 as you are to 'WiMs I Skirtl " ' Wl# We cannot dw skirts in an adver wns and silks will conrinca * ye >rs and styles. place to get yc Prices skirts 5 to $3.50 each _ . Prices Suits nf nmv cncStior Mil U1 I1VTT tfJIti ou will be interest artment. It is our tvith us. That we < inclusively if you AND SEE NDl they be provided with the things 1 fvatrAlorc mncf liovo Will rO(T5fln e *t, ? * -O ? i a measure the popularity they < joyed in the stage coach days, j ier. gentlemen traveled in coach t d four, and when mine host was ^ end as well as host to many men I ough many fruitful years. Al- t BBflgfigBfigBBfifi / The Bu Associa Paying | i $1 to the she I # In tli J snriatinn stock ovei I Wei and July. You: time: See i G. A. N Pres uaiaiaigiiuiiiaiBfafitfiUiL; Th g Your Inspect! ma TOU. tie here to s You'll find i see them. id Ufaists Read uHm ??r suits and New A liiiunt, but a look Wo han >u tkat hero is the 25 more 1 . are the pri iur suit or -skirt. jt ? ?$3.50 to $7.00 show you ? $10.00 to $25.00 prices are llinery. If you w orl in flip i bVM HIV lU^il desire to give do give you, at will give us the HEIS > eady in some of the States whc ?ood roads have been built a numb )f years, the old inns have been ] uvenated by transient business, a he charm of travel over the hig vays, as compared with the dus leat of stuffy cars, has been learn >y the people who live an out-of-do RRRftRRRRRRRR tiding and Loot Hon of Abbevil Out / 0 ()( ire-holders of serie ie past two year has paid out in ? AAA r ?pou,uuu. ssue a series every may take out sta us now. EUFFER J. S. rident Sec. a iziEiifiiizBizrajaiEinn! < ^ ! ings | 5' ^PBrion, and Our I t I ; : i ee the new J i JS ; . * 3 ______ [ ! iy-Made Dresses l rrivaU in Silk DreMe*. V e received Monday about A ilk dresses and think thejr ^ ettiest ever ihown in Abbe> ^ v U indeed a pleasure to ! ^ these new dresses. Our a from $6.00 to $25.00 . ^ ould like to be | f class hats you <? every possible ^ 5 ' this store the ' 1 opportunity. i I ' ^ i <> I IRY[| \ + ;re life. Good roads and good Boiii ier have an inter-relation that will Jxmc .e_ prosperity to the latter as quiriEfcr c*o iiiaiiogcio XCaiUC IAJ LIU? JlUt .J,, the extent and desirability of fancwfc travel. ed or Send us your job work.. BrardrafniEiEiaiiiiaiiiziBm le Is 1 ' )0. I ;s No. 2. p s this as- ij| matured *5 ' January ig :k at any & MORSE 1 ind Treas. H