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X idVr?U JL TT-V Established 1844. The Press and Banner Abbeville, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Tplpnhone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter at ' post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 Monday, April 26, 1920. BACK TO HONEY. Texas is at present sending out a deal of propaganda regarding a sub | stitute for 35 cent sugar which is predicted for July 1. That this prophecy is not without foundation It maxr hp stated that such a prediction ?, . I was made Saturday by the Austin Nichols Co., wholesale grocerymen^ of New York, with whom a number of our local grocery firms deal. One hundred dollar suits have theifr over-j alls, dollar butter has its olomargarine, but the general public has as yet found no satisfactory substitute for 35-cent* sugar. Texas asserts that it has found that substitute by producing last year 19 million1 pounds of honey. The Lone Star State also states that sugar did not always exist. The first mention of it as a northern European commodity was in the early fourteenth century when the price was exactly 34 1-2 cents a pound. This price in, say 1320 meant an equivalent of dollars today. We have not yet gone hack to the high prices of sugar's initiation. Sugar six hundred years ago was rare luxury and a medicine. Honey was the standard sweetener, as it has long been in the Orient. . Honey was used in cookery, wine, ale, medicine, etc., to the exclusion of sugar until coffee and tea gradually brought in sugar and the latter became so cheap as to drive honey off the market. In 1700 England used only ten-thousand tons of sugar. The same country In 1900 used more than a hundred times that amount. ,? ' Just now honey is selling for 23-'1 cents a pound against the predicted \ 35-cent sugar. Bee-men say the( United States does not produce more than one per cent of Its potential production of the melliflulous "sweetening." Chemists also tell us' that honey does not have the bad ef-1 fppt on the teeth that rogar does. However, if honey in coffee has the same effect upon our stomaches that we recall honey and hot biscuits' once had, we'll have none of it. i . I OVERALLS FOR PARADE? ! If the overall is simply to be added to the wardrobe, for use in overall parages, we shall raise the price of the workingman's daily jeans and accomplish nothing more. And if tney are IU UC WUIU ao a vuwcmvn to fine raiment the saving will not be appreciable for some time to come. If the overall is to be of service in bringing down the prices of clothing it will have to take the place of someth.?ig more expensive, and that something would naturally be the regular summer suit. Except for the looks of the thing, and except for our being bound to the wheel of fashion, overalls are equivalent to the kind of material the millionaire wears at Palm Beach or Daytona. One of the sure signs ttiat the overall drive is accomplishing its original intent would be a scurry and manifest uneasiness among the clothing manufacturers. Is there opposition among the big clothiers of the country? Hear what Hart, Schaff-, ner & Jdarx, one of the largest and most reliable ready to wear manufacturers, say in response to an inquiry received by them as to their opinion of the blue denim drive.1 Whether with an eye to publicity or out of mere honesty they Indorse the idea of the universal wearing of overalls heartily. In their opinion "the talk about overalls is all right. It makes people think about economy. It makes them anxious to reduce the cost of clothes. If a man can wear overalls in his work, that is a good way to save." A great many sensible merchants would say the same thing, but the general attitude of clothiers was expressed in Fifth ^ ? avenue's objection to the overal rade through that street last w< At all events those prophets disaster, who foresee a cio' market gone to the devil, thoru of businesses ruined, the pri< suits tail-spinning to the low Jev A a consequence, are a uit cauj their predictions. The most thai be hoped is a slackening in den temporarily, which may bring p down a bit, but nothing near no Too many men in the South hai, ready either had their summer delivered or else contracted for receive even temporary relief, so long as conditions remain as a re?people willing to pay the t demanded?an overall parade as as the Lincoln Highway will ha\ effect except, probably, to ralsi price of the overalls to the wor man who uses them in his tmsi The latest reported price of the piece overall in New York is $ which five years ago would bu fairly decent cool cloth suit. Apropos of the blue denim followed so closely by the C Your-Own Lunch movement in cities someone has suggested we had better prepare for the lowing fads: Grind your own coffee T>eans. Reweave that old cigar butt. Smoke that cigarette down U firing pin. Don't throw away that che gum. Have it reflavored. Never discard oyster shells. k * ? 1? them to tne sea w> De rem^eu. Cut your own hair. Make one bathing suit do for self and. wife. Add more water to the nearNaked came ye into the 1 and naked shall ye go out, say Scripture. And if the clo prices go any higher naked shs spend the intervening period. I ?????? WHICH IS MORE SENSATIOI I 1 Whenever we have a murde lynching, a suicide, a defai bank cashier, we play it up by ting the news item in bold ty] the front page of our papers, when Carpentier, the French list steps from the gang planl the steamship we make the eve occasion for many pictures ajid comment in the newspapers. Y< j may be questioned whether this true sensation or that all our i papers which play up these e 1 are guilty Qf yellow journalism take such events just as we d drama, shedding our tears, per those of us who weep, but, afte: I investing it with a quality of sion. .1 . i i Of all our critics, perhaps, British are the most ardent in ; nouncing what they call our s tional journals. The London T I the acme of all British newsp j is altogether different. Even tl | King George himself committee ! cide this evening, the London r of tomorrow would not have story on the front page. The page of The Times is devoted ! and eternally to advertisemenl has no society ladies, murderer; liticians or athletics menacing from its front page. But the ey the habitual Times reader fa upon an innocent looking col well known to every reader, mi "Personal" in ten-point type. It looks very much like on< our want ad! columns, but it is more sensational than the G< an's front page. Here you find things as, '"Gerald A. Humps, of 10 Bangs-road, county of Su warns people not to trust his | for he will pay none of her c Here lovers exchange messages, an anonymous person regrets rudeness on Oxford street to equally anonymous. Here "01 cries to "Pensive Lady", "No, J Chuck." Here "Mound-Maiden" "Stewart" that "the inexorable of caste prevents it." There tional messages by real people, every day in this column bold, put in the newspaper by thems for 7s. 6d. per two lines. What American can find th his "daily?" Wouldn't it be bli some of our old gossips could the very personal messages fron ers, one or both of whom known to them? Wouldn't our scription list grow in leaps bounds if in the "Personal" co a young gentleman in Lownde could read a message understoc him only that the young lady treated him coldly in Antreville Sunday was sorry. Or if ay 1 pa- lady in Due West would receive in eek. the "Personal" column an apology i of from the young. Abbeville beau who thing was rude to her at the Erskine-Furjands man ball game last week? :e of After all it is xmly in sedate Eng el as land that you can unfdld your mornj in ing paper and expect a personal I i can heart leap. land | _ ,ricesl ROSEMARY FOR OLD BILL rmal. j re a| | Three hundred years ago last Frisul^i day Shakespeare had been dead^four *4- frt , , . 1 . 1U years, and ftis iame was Known m a *us^, few quarters and in the memories t^eyl of his fellow actors. Today his fame trices jias . become an artistic tradition l?ng from which writers of both prose re no.and verse cannot free ttiemselves. s the fp^g manner which came naturally to him is artificial since then. There :ness,|Will never be another William ! one^ Shakespeare and it is sufficient 7.50, ^he influence of "the bard of >y a Stratford" still continues to daily I g^ve pleasure and encouragement to drive ^ countless millions. May the request arry I contained in his epitath continue to be respected. that . ' *?1_i THE ASHEVILLE HOME SCHOOL The following poem was written ! by Miss Elizabeth Raines, a student 5 the at the above-named school, and is |reproduced here by request: iwing There's a grand and glorious Home j School Send That's known over land and sea, And it's loved by all our students, But it's dearest to you and me. yourI Her name shall always linger, beer.' And her girls shall prosperous be, world TiU the Chief of all great schools s the tf?3 sounded calls for me. thing' til ye When she's defeated and laid away, There'll be no one to weep, For every true Home School girl ^AL? WW be in a peaceful sleep. j r, g lllG SI66p insi Knows nu noiviiig ilting time ' put- Here below )e on gut the .call that wakes their slumber Even will be the final blow. pugiz Some few girls were a little slow, an But they're all here at last, much we j{now -there'll be no errors lt:i When we look back over the past, i is a1 | i " ?l, S s newsi And when we ge to fight the battle ^ At the dear old Home School bay, ' | With Miss Bundy as our leader , i We're su reto win the day. haps, J r all; illu- w^en flt last the school is over r I And we've said our last farewells the' teac^ers an(* Miss Bunffy ^ " And those dear old morning bells, ensa? Then we'll boast about old Home lmes, School apers lough suPreme? sublime and true, 1 sui- ^"nc* ^rink *? ^ea^th of our deal Times Teachers and bid them adieu. the 1 front ^hen we'll boast again Old Home solely Schr' is it our own ^r'en^s* ian<*; \ 1 To our friends and to our mother's 3, po' About our dear old Home Schoo f us e of band' .sterts lumn ! DIVERS AND HARBORS arked TO GET M0RE MONEY , . : a 0? Senate Passes Bill After Total Is far' Made Twenty-Four Million iorgi-j . Do"?" such late Washington, Apr. 27.?The rivers rrey" a?d harbors bill was passed today by i the senate after it had been amended lebts'< so as to ma'te t^ie $24,000,000 Her^ as against the '$12,000,000 in the ^.g house bill and $20,000,000 recom one'men^ec^ sena*e committee. The measure which was approved tver j Sweet Wlt"0ut a recor(* vote now soes to tells con^erence where a sharp fight is exlaw Pect (** I Both the senate and house agreed an(j to the general principle of a lump _ l sum appropriation rather than emoielves'Spe 0 gran^s ^or vari?us Pr?, jects. No new work was authorized. . . 1 At the request of Senator Reed, lis in Democrat, Senator Harrison, Demoiss if read Crat' 0 ^1SS,SS1PP' sought early in i lov-'^6 ^ay to amen<* bill so as to were niake the total $27?000>?00, but this i was defeated, 26 to 28. Senator Har j rison then proposed' $24,000,000, CtllU lumn which was accePted after long dissville cuss'on' vote being 64 to 22. id by who Knjrraved Cards and Invitaion*? i lsst ? l'he Press and Banner Co oung 1 3? 8 ^^Hb( \ sli s?^4CHm (ih?~ ' Copyfll^rtClO The HenlrtrKtypd$c&cf "What's Men Yes, Spring i ' t- j L 1 M Iinio new namia "What's righl better be answe The man I good clothe / He is right ir created the ne\ can figure that; I here and in Eur< American St; American st] figure of all the by the masters Italy. It takes i American?his i E tion. It harmor ?2 plicity. It is in |f good taste. g And note this m much, if you for ? of fifty cents b? B Kuppenheim( g only wear lor only fine ma\ create the new I a long season < See the new s orings. 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