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" ~ ? * , A SENSIBLE VIEW. The public generally is more or less familiar , with the conditions which have existed at Abbeville during the past several weeks growing out of the lynching of a negro for cursing a white man and the exodus of negroes from that country which followed a demonstration against them following the lynching. In this connection the following article from Hon. William P. Greene, editor of The Abbeville tress ana Banner, is very timely and very sensible: "From all over the South we hear reports that the negroes are going away, and that the farms are being deserted. It is true all over this state that they are going. And they are going from Abbeville county too. And some of them are going, not because they want to go but because they are afraid to remain here, we very much fear. It has been only a few years since we went to Calhoun Falls on an v early train on which was a military company going to keep negroes from 1 leaving this county. It was claimed ' that they were under contract to labor for this or the other man, and that they were violating the contracts by leaving after having received advances, and the strong arm of law was invoked to keep them here. The people then wanted the negro to stay. And we believe that the people still want the negro to remain in the South?the well behaved, industrious negro, who dees no one any harm, and who is always ready to do a good turn to "hia white people." Some of these faithful old negroes, after being set free from slavery have labored here faithfully, and by their labors have accumulated a little property. Some of them own their homes here. We cannot thinV that there is anv man in Abbeville county ISO nearly a barbarian that he would I reizjEiznLraiiiJzrziiiJBJii^ 1 Cinnrlips 1^1 ^ Little 5* * / We have large contracts o: ii ana i\nis, ana want, 10 sen y< H* I Times are prosperous?m H[! We carry a full stock of ( l ] Fruit, Lettuce, Raisins, Cu l ] paragus, Salad Dressing, Ei | i in the canned^goods line fo: [ I Fine lot of Seed Oats in st Hi I to sell you, and we will do tt ] we do not want your money. I i IJlOp LOC AUCTION HOB I? . . AMcKinae & Jol DprpinK iSale starts pron by J. P. King, tf , man. Wa w/i 11 caII rat IT f V T T IIA WW1A TVW*. A Horses and Mar Every horse we just as represei be or money refi We sell rain er shine. rvr?^Riiinrn m UCVCIT1DDK I J. P. King T( I^P^lli?S3 '13111^ [giiifiJii ^ ,rf fr If] If see these people leave this section through fear, when they have molested no man, given offense to no man, and have only quietly filled their modest places in the world. If we are correct in this we would have every good citizen of this county give these harmless negroes assurances of safety and of the good will of our people to the end that they may enjoy the small amount oi property they have purchased from the white man, and that their property may not be confiscated on account of their deserting it. In times of disorders such as we have had there is always more * or less excitement, and a good amount of wild talk, which does a great deal of harm, but which in reality is not seriously spoken. And it is so now. There is no reason for any law-abiding negro to feel that he pay not live here just as he has always done. As long as he lives within the law, and attends to his own legitimate occupation, and does not meddle with other people's affairs, even those who are called lawless will have nothing against him. It is only the vicious among the negroes, as it is the violent among the whites,, who make trouble and cet into trouble."?Spartanburg Journal. A LEMON GROWER. Miss Mary Paschal, who was up from Mt. Carmel yesterday, brought a large sized lemon to the editor of this paper. She grew it on a fine lemon tree which she has planted at her home. Mis3 Mary is one of the bright and pretty girls at the Mt. Carmel school. She is an artist of rare talent as well. JUDGE GARY TO RETURN. Hon. Frank B. Gary, judge of the eighth circuit, has been holding the courts of the ninth circuit during the winter. He will finish his work there this week, and will be in Abbeville on Wednesday. imaniJiimjBJHjajEJZJgJHn m For ihe ij Ones !| 1 a Apples, Oranges, Caddies [ ! on your '1 Santa Clans." . | j ake the little ones happy. J j Celery, Cranberries, Grape J J rrants, Citron, Olives, As- j I lglish Peas and everything r ] p Christmas. - ? J ock. All we ask is a chance E * ie rest. We satisfy you, or j 1 1! Barksdale jj IM M M M *N M M M M tmm M ?lr I icfon I 'It UOIVU I SALE OF I ciTiyl loi?I bson's Stable i er 16th j iptly at 10 a. m. I le famous horse I of high-grade f es at auction. sell will be sold 1 nted, and must ( inded. 1 , Remember the date 1 i6th; io a. m. 1 n I ** >nn. dales Co. g i CERTAIN NORTHERN ERRORS. i The endeavors of Northern newsl papers to put an end to lynching the South?and in the North?are welcomed by that part of the Southern population that always has set itself against mob violence but these : endeavors of our friends would be more effective if they would denude their minds of two errors that they incessantly repeat. One is that opposition to mob outbreaks is new in the South. The Northern press insists upon discovering among us at brief intervals a fresh dawn of civilization. Beginning with 1877, so soon as the North gave the South the slightest opportunity to put its household in order, such men as the late F. W. Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Courier, the late N. G. Gonzales, correspondent under Mr. Dawson's direction, and subsequently one of the founders of this newspaper, together with practically every conspicuous South Carolinian leader of that time, earnestly set to work to put down lynchings. In every other Southern State were men of the same stamp and the files of the Southern newspapers prove i? fVi? orrnr nnrl it. in one ex tremely irritating, is the Northern habit of attributing the lynchings to the "poor whites." There is in the South no peculiar and sharply defined class of "poor whites." There are poor men, thousands of them, but they are not a distinct and separate class in this part of the country even to the degree that the poor are a separate class in New York city. Among the white people there is less distinction of caste in the South than elsewhere in the United States, for the obvious reason that there is less of difference in race and origin to base it upon. In particular localities classes may be widely separated but, generally, the man who is poor in the South is much nearer to the man of wealth than in the North. That there is a subordinate race here makes of every white -man in the South an aristocrat in a sense very real, even if it does not fulfill the common definition of that term. Moreover, the mobs that lynch are seldom confined to poor men. They may'seldom include men of education and'cultivation, but when the mob numbers hundreds a proportion of its members by no means neglible are likely to be property owners and persons of a certain influence. Nor should Northern men imagine that even the educated, cultivated people of the South are free or losine any Dart of what they choose to caU "race prejudice." The enlightened Southern man is willing and eager that the negro be accorded equal and exact justice under the law but he is unbending in his insistence that the social separation of the races shall be not only observed but emphasized. Consequently, when a negro manifests disposition to "tote a chip on' his shoulder," it becomes exceedingly difficult even for men of the best type to defend him against ruffians. The State is-not undertaking here to argue pros and cons; it is describing a condition. Right or wrong, the fact is that the well-to-do negro is required to maintain a demeanor of politeness and restraint towards a white man that is not punctiliously demanded by white men from one another and when the negro is indiscreet enough to transx gress, the mere fact that the severity and harshness that is sometimes met ed out to him is inexcusable does not always make it preventable by those persons whose wish is that no appeal from the orderly processes of law shall be taken. That there are and always have been men in the South who make no compromise with lawlessness creates no sequitur that they can in a day or in a generation bring to pass a social condition that is wholly desirable and desired by them.?The State. GOVERNMENT REPORT SETS MARKET WILD New York, Dec. 11.?One of the most widely excited selling movements in the history of the cotton market followed the publication of the government crop estimate her today. There had been heavy liquidation before the report was published and when the official figures of the yield were received the market was ruling around 18.90 for March, which represented a decline of nearly $12 a bale from the high record established just before Thanksgiving. Within less than twenty minutes after the report was published March contracts sold at 17.50, or approximately 162 points below the high level of the morning and nearly 4 ponfQ n nriiinrl unHpp Tpf?pnf. hicll record. BIRTHS. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Henry McNeil, Nov. 26, 1916, a son, Melvin Gottlob McNeil. EVER SALIVATED BY CALOMEL? HORRIBLE I Calomel is Quicksilver and Acts Like Dynamite On Your Liver. Calomel loses you a dayf You know what, rnlnmpl is. Tt'fl mereurv; nniek silver. Calomel is dangerous. < It crashes into sour bile like dynamit*, cramping and sickening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put into your system. When you feel bilious, sluggish, constipated and all knocked out and believe you need a dose of dangerous calomel just remember that your druggist sells for 50 cents a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which is entirely vegetable and pleasant to take and is a perfect substitute for T4> in wl coiuuici! 11 is ^uoxauvccu \aj oiait your liver without stirring you up inside, and can not salivate. Don't take calomel 1 It makes you sick the next day; it loses you a day's work. Dodson's Liver Tone straightens you right up and you feel great. Give it to the children because it is I perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe. 1 ?Adv. ONLY ONCE. Through this toilsome world, alas! Once, and only once, I pass. ? ' xi a Kinaness i may snow, Or a good deed I may do To my suffering fellow-man, Let me do it while I can; Nor delay it: for 'tis plain I shall not pass this way again. Father in heaven, who lovest all, 0 help Thy children, when they call; That they may build from age to age An undefiled heritage. Teach us to rule ourselves alway, Controlled and cleanly night and day; That we may bring, if need arise, No maimed or worthless sacrifice. Teach us to look, in all our ends, On Thee for judge, and not our friends; That we, with Thee, may walk uncowed By fear or favor of the-crowd. ' Teach us the strength that can not seek By deed or thought to (hurt the weak; That, under Thee, we may possess Man's strength to comfort man's distress. Teach us delight in simple things, And mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to all men 'neath the sun! ?Rudyard Kipling. Open air exercise cures colds? : Colds sometimes get well in spite of the excessive use of alcoholic beverages? # DON'T Hudle, Your Candle-Lifkted Cfoiftmu Trees Recklessly -V x that all Qiristmas^elebrants will do well to observe: Use electric lights instead of candleswherwer possible. Never leave the children alone with lighted candles. Remove the curtains when canfllesare used in windows. Use asbestos fiber instead of cotton to represent snow. Use metallic tinsel and not paper on your trees. Fasten your tree securely, so it will not tip over. Remove the tree from the house when the needles become dry. I I A CHRISTMAS CAROL In the stillness of the midnight, In the silence of the Star, In the slumber of the Tyhite lamb#, On the hillsides, near and far, ; Came the Christ Child to his mother; To the humble oxen's stall; He, the Babe of Paradise, sweet; I T - ? Vln. nf all [ . UUlU U1 vmwwiiao, imij v* ?>M? i / Hush, let not a word be spoken Of his sacrifice for men, Stooping from his world of glory. To be woman-born; a pen Of sweet straw to be his cradle, He Is ours. Just ours, today, Mark that mortal smile, that shining Of the halo In the hay! While the palm trees rustle softly, While his lullaby, the breeze, Croons amid the angels' anthem Which the star-lit heaven cleave*. We will claim him ours, our treasure, Christmas Babe, and Babe divine. Hall, thrice hall, O mystic stranger, Nestling in thy straw-filled shrine! ?Helen Chase, In Brooklyn Eagle. : g Remember that he who re- < S celves sparingly Is oftentimes ? ifi compensated by enjoying donbly. & COMING TO UNITED DOCTORS SPECIALIST WILL AGAIN BE AT Elberton, Georgia, TUESDAY, Jan. 2, 1917. HOTEL GHOLSTON, Parlor Suit One Day Only Hours, 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. Remarkable Success of These Talented Physicians in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases Office Services Free of Charge The United Doctors, licensed by the State of Georgia, established 1884 are experts in the treatment I nf diseases of the blood, liver, lungs, stoniach, intestines, skin, nerves, heart, spleen, kidney or bladder, bed-wetting, rheumatism, sciatica tape worm, leg ulcers, appendicitis, gall stones, goitre, piles, etc., without operation, and are too well known in this locality to. need further mention. Call and see them, it costs you nothing. Laboratories, Cleveland, Ohio. Christmas Sh> ?- ' We have a very pretty li mas cards, boxes and otl You will need them whe your presents. ' * Bowden-Simpson .r. . , _ I Christmas Holidai Via Seaboi Air L,ine Railw "The Progresiiv Railway c Ask nearest Ticket Agenl tion, or write, FRED GEISLEF ,Asst. Gen. Pi S. A. L. I AT mnBrarannnniMiMfimnra I Are You Going t I j If you are, let us figurue on the < I j sash, doors, blinds, moldings, mante J a need We have recently furnished m [ ] ber of nice houses in Abbeville, the I ] Cheatham's and W. A. Harris', anc j nishing material for D. H. Hill's ne II amine the material in these and see i Ij BUILDERS' SUPI !j GREENWOOD, S. I raniaizizniziaii!^^ Make your family proud of their home Your wife and children cannot take a pride in their home if the house is faded and weather-beaten. That means no. paint. And, for mansion or cottage, the nnot riiint 1C L/VJL <W fiwb fiJHJ/W - WUM IdOWO?L / We guarantee Devoe Lead and Zinc Pain absolutely pure. When you paint with you save paint-money?fewer gallons to bu save labor-money?fewer gallons to spreai get a better looking paint-job?pure paint; will be a longer time before you need 2 paiui-juu* Why have a shabby house when it will cc so little to make it attractive with Devoe i in to-day and let us give you a color ca show you several harmonious combinations. P. B. SPE1 A'Bbeville. drugs HRRS/^IOfe A |l 9i^/i]3l! ^ ^SULU^jJdBfcdUwMJ^AMgL ;< . . . - . r '. ; *n '. . - - .wv ? Cv <?t ? r-~-/Z .;> . 'Mr'. -,v : : 1 .: ;J& '.-. ' A ,vt': ?,' 'V: .L' w ? oppers! ne of Christler novelties, in you send * ? Drug Co. j Fares I ara ay Co. ! _ a? >f the South" f tforinforma- j utenger Ageqt, iv- I ' LANTA, GA. 1 X | rararaizraraiaram 0 Build? I dressed material, ? Ls, etc., you will 11 , aterial for a num- 11 last being J. E. | J 1 we are now fur- | J w residence. Ex- I J f it suits you. I? j! >LY CO. i! 5- j aiaiaiaianiiiiiiffl i_ / to be Devoe |R ; and it mother JzEfb . >st you 1 Stop rd and ID SOUTHCAROLINA /' ' \ ,? ( . \r .