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OFFICIAL ENGLISH. (President Wilson's Messages and Speeches.) President Wilson is known to be a student of Chatham, Burke, Broug-, ham and Macaulay, especially ofj Burke. In the seventies he followed ( closely the oratorical battles in Eng-j land of Disraeli, Gladstone, Lowe,: Bright and Lord John Russell. In early life he read much of Scott and ! Dickens. In after life his chief fav-j ourite was Walter Bagehot. Burke; and Bagehot were his chief literary pleasures. His devotion to Burke is surprising, j because it seems to have had little effect on his own style?at least, Burke's richness of imagery, his j wealth of simile and metaphor, his glowing and excessive poetry of prose is not in Wilson's style. Political breadth and wisdom may have come from Burke, but the style of the man has come from other sources or may be is just his own. It is plain, simple, concise, vigorous,t contains j but few metaphors or similes, fewj faults of any kind, and none of ex-i cess; and shows only one mannerism, j Let us examine first this manner-' ism. It is a persistent dualism of idea or of words or of phrases. This was Swinburne's chief fault as a prose writer, and many other writers have found it could not be avoided even with effort. President Wilson! shows not a sign of attempt to mas-| ' ter it, and not a sign of consciousness | of it. His address on the Lincoln Cente-, nary, 1909, is an example of the weakness: "We are confused by a war of interests, a clash of classes, a competition of powers, an effort at conquest and restraint, and the great forces which war and toil amongst us J can be guided and reconciled only byj some man who is truly a man of the people." It is in his still earlier Inaugural 'Address as President of Princeton,! 19?2: . .servants of a trade or skilled practioners of a profession . >. . elasticity of faculty and breadth of vision . . . liberalization and ; enlargement . . advance the race || in Farm ; * One eight-room house Every room well-fmishe 93 Acres of land within house. One 10-rooi two wells, barns, etc. 95 acres of land 10 mile railroad stations, now anno inct IUVI J UkJU < We have 244 acres of I hustler can make it 1 I We have the Evans pla Martin's mill on the Lowndesville. This i neighborhood with pl< easily sub-divided?fi and prices. Mr. D. A. Wardlaw has of 140 acres. Place , the Snake road. Thi the county. Three i houses, water, etc. ( fact, this is one of the market. One six-room two-story We Have the Best Farm 1 town. Splendid hous Cheap at Plenty of Timber?We . We have otl IW.\.CAL\ Presiden Scene From "BRINGING UP FATHI ^ . . ' ' ' ' .V':' ] and help all men. It shows again and again. In his Message to the Senate, 22nd January, 1917: "These are American principle*, American policies. We can stand for no others. And they are also the principles and policies of forward-looking j men and women everywhere, of ev^ ery modern nation, of every enlight-: ened community. They are the prinr?inlp<? of mankind, and must prevail." I Four sentences: three cf them dualistic. In his great and famous Messages to Congress, 2nd April,; 1917: "While we do these things, these | deeply momentous things, let us be | Very clear and make very clear to all the world what our motives and, objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not; believe that he thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them." AE Bi Lands an< M? just off South Main Street. d. 4% acres land . . .$3*250 . one mile of Campbell school n house, two tenant houses, $75.00 per acre is from city, 5 miles from two r making bale of cotton to the $55.00 per acre and, but unimproved land , a worth $100 in one year. $35.00 per acre ce containing 323 acres near main road irom ADDeviiie to s one of the best farms in that snty of tenant houses. Can be ne timber. See us for terms empowered us to sell his home just four miles below town on s is one of the best homes in big barns, plenty of tenant 31ose to school and church. In ! most desirable homes on the house close in for. . . . $2,250 within a radius of 2% miles of ;e on place; zou acres oi lana. $25,000 are offering 122 acres on Abtier desirable ho 'ERT DIET ll JL :R IN SOCIETY," The Stage Play at i . /^^E v^ * ' ^1 tfekk^^^^E' ... / :1V': * 'T ' ' ,' ? ' ' ' , M ;,i'"i : / Prices: $1.50, $1.00, 75c. and 50c. This is not a terrible fault, t}ut it; becomes wearisome, breaks the atten- j tion, and takes away some of the j virtues of a style that is otherwise' excellent. The chief characteristic of the I President's official style is a compact simplicity that is a form of vigour. Here is an example that will represent scores of similar passages: "I am speaking as an individual, and yet I am speaking also, of course, | as the responsive head of a great | Government, and I feel confident that ' I I have said what the people of the! United States would wish me to say.; May I not add that I hope and be-! lieve that I am in effect speaking for liberals and friends of humanity in every nation ^nd of every program of' liberty?" Could the thoughts be put plainer,1 briefer, closer? His usage of words is nearly al-l ways perfect. Once he speaks of "universal liability to service," thus' abusing a valuable word for which he \K(j7 d City Pre Com] beville-Galhoun Falls ro< N There is enough timber offer this at. . Wear Good School?Within we can sell you one gooa / house, barn and other 01 of land for only 40,000 Feet of Timber?A we offer you 52 acres of is 40,000 feet of saw timl acres can be cultivated, near the city. Terms ct 59 ACRES LAND, just thre the Graded School of Doi dwelling in first-class c grove. There are about this farm, the remainder If you want a good home town, investigate this imi Price, per acre JUST ONE BLOCK OFF M/ ' from Square on Pincknej house and two desirable $71 Let us show you the most di City, 50 acres well impro house, two good tenant 1 and all necessary out-bi closed with hog wire* wit the place. Now making. Ppi'PP * tvv? mes and farms whether you wis! )MONT the Opera House, Monday, Oct. 13.il . ! *'T I. \ j ought to have used general, and in the same Message to Congress (2nd April 1917), he uses the doubtful phrase "distressing instance after instance," and on the next page, "by painful stage after stage"; but if these are trifles, yet they suggest a general freedom from gross error that is found to be a permanent character- [ istic. President Wilson displays not once, so far "as I can see, any special feeling of rolling eloquence, yet sometimes he gives us a touch of moderate rhythm that gives pleasure: "We are accepting this challenge, of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, follow- j ing such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in ( wait to accomplish we know not what purpose," there can be no as-1 sured security for the democratic Governments of the world." The vigor that comes of simplicity he uses often like a succession of{ MNS >perty Offe pany ijd near Wardlaw's bridge, to pay for the place. We $3,000 one mile of Sharon school 5-room dwelling, 1 tenant itbuildings, and 174 acres , $35.00 per acre bout six miles 'from town good land on which there Der and plenty of water. 40 Just the place for a home in be made to suit $2)250 e-tenths of one mile from nalds. Good seven-room londition, in a beautiful 40 acres in cultivation on in pasture and woodland. } near school and a good nediately. $105.00 UN STREET, two blocks r Street one seven-room building lots, all for >00.00, for Immeliate sale. ssirable house near the ved land, good eight-room houses. Eight stalls, barn jildings. Entire place en,h two division fences thru one bale cotton per acre. $8,000.00 we can sell you h to buy or sell, LAND hammer-blows. Read aloud this pas- ? sage (2nd April, 1917): !] "There is one choice we cannot < make, we are incapable of making : 'i we will not choose the path of sub- ] mission and suffer the most sacred j t rights of our nation and our people' to be ignored or violated. The wrongs j against which we now array our- j selves are not common wrongs; they j reach out to the very roots of human . life." j, These words vibrate in a strong j and controlled feeling; perhaps they } are everlasting words?surely they ( deserve to live. Yet they contain in ; their brief space at least four sets of dualisms, and they warn us that man- : nerism is a weakness that must be fought and conquered. Let us take for another warning that even the masters of style have a fall sometimes, President Wilson's historical speech in the Paris Con-! gress, 25th January, this year, his. League of Nations announcement. The whole effect is great, yet a close! study of it shows an unusual number, of weaknesses. He uses the word j thing or things eight times, not once j well. Take this, for instance: "Therefore it seems to me that we. must concert our best judgment in ] order to make this League of Nations j a vital thing. Not merely a formal thing, not an occasional thing, not a thing sometimes called into life to meet an exigency. . . Four "things" crowded into that small space. He ought not to have called the League of Nations a thing at all; yet he called it a thing four times over, as if he enjoyed the thing! The word is not reeded. "To make the League of Nations vital, not merely formal, occasional, called sometimes to meet an exigency"? would that not say as much better and briefly-' In the same speech he is reported to have said "There lay a solemn obligation on them/ in which sentence the clumsy "there' could have been v.oided easily: "A ?clemn ob'igu.tion lies on us." He speaks of "the keystone of the whole fabric," using farbric after the fashion of some writers, but not w?th his usual scholarly correctness. President Wilson, for all his plain ness and vigor, has been misunder j i-1 - n~ - ' ' ' ' We are now ii Office Over Roy; ared by th< 125 anres in cultivation: Die this is an ideal place for'a Our price with easy terms i Splendid Farm In McCormich land in upper McGormick c Mt. Garmel. Good 5-hors timber, to run place. Thre Good Farm Near Honea Path one-fcalf miles northfeast of acres in cultivation; good tenant houses. Price.... Some City Property?Fifty fe< Two vacant lots. We can for only One Hundred Feet on Magazin feet. Our price Look into This?We have 80 inoqy ujBq pooS 'sasnoij )u uo asnoq ssHp-^sjg y -S9jdb -aqqy uiojj sajun ^F*0? of Abbeville. It will pay proposition One Six-Room House on N. N lot. House could not be bu us about this. We are offering a nine-room i with all modern convenienc . r i J rm_ /? il oi mna. mis is one 01 m< Price . See us for a ' CO. c "m ? stood as much as any statesman of lis time. Several of his best known sayings have become so by being mis;aken. One is the famous passage in lis speech three days after the sinkng of the Lusitania: 'The example of America must oe i special example, and must be an eximple not merely of peace because t will not fight, but because peace is i healting and elevating influence in . | ;uch a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need tof convince others by force that it is right." . The meaning is there, and a careful study of the words gives it, but it might have been put plainer. The irony of the situation is that one of the plainest of speakers has been misread more than once because of a little e^iporary vagueness. , "I accept the challenge. I know |fj that you accept it. All the world shall know that you accept it. It shall appear in the utter sacrifice and self-forgetfulness with which we ?hall gi\f all. that we love and all that we ; have, to redeem the world and make i p it fit for free men like ourseives to live in. This now is the meaning of M all that we do. Let everything that j f> we say, my fellow-countrymen, everything that we henceforth plan and accomplish, ring true to this response till the majesty and might of our concerted power shall fill the thought \ and utterly defeat the force of those who flout and* misprize what we honour and hold dear. Germany . has once more said that force, and force . alone, shall decide whether justice anii|p<??ce shall reign in the affairs of r.-?n, whether right as America con- \''M ceives it, or dominion as she conceives it, shall determine the destinies of mankind. There is, therefore, but yjli one response possible from us; force, \ .??1| force to the uttermost, force without stint or limit, the righteous aid triumphant force which shall mal.e right the law of the world and cast . > every selfish dominion down in the The speaker of those words has nothing to fear from comparison or from criticism; he can afford to be ' ' fearless of both. The Engligft language will mother his faiaJLCiig all ^vjl fa i e and language \||| hmmm ' S3 i our nev.T S3 il Rcitsurant 9 snty of pasture. In fact I man who wants a farm. B ; S s nnlv SSQ n?r acre 3 ; County?207 acres of \ ounty; three miles from e farm open; plenty of e tenant houses, $6)000 R ?121Y2 acres two and Honea Path. About 85 pasture; good house; 2 ; $130 per acre 3t front on Magazine St. sell you for a short time $600.00 le St., running back 224 $1,100.00 acres of land 3^ miles reu9) os[B 'aottjd siqj 991 Suraifljuoo 'aniA NOA Joj |"*?P| uv you to investigate this I M $35.00 per acre H lain Street?Big roomy B ilt for the money. See 9 j louse on N. Main Street W ies with about one acre ? 3 nicest places in town. B $6,500.00 f square aeai | HfJ '! PEN NEL I anager I