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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly * Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-?'?ass matter at post office iD Aoheville, S. C. Ten as of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1921 ASSOCIATE JUSTICE COTHRAN. The people of Abbeville, where he has so many kindred and friends, are pleased with the elevation of j Thomas P. Cothran :o the Supreme Court. They should be pleased most of all because his learning, his ab ty, and his high character fit him to fill the position to which he has been elected with credit to himself and the state. Litigants with a righteous cause too have reason to be pleased at his election. Mr. Cothran merited the place which he won. At times misunder -Nstood perhaps, at other times beset with the prejudices growing out of his employment by the Southern Rail way, and at other time's perhaps be ing unlucky in politics, because he is no politician, it has taken a long time for the people to see and learn of his fitness for high position. He wins the position to which he has been elected therefore, on merit. THE PARDONING POWER The Spartanburg Journal, a little while ago, was finding fault with Governor Cooper for pardoning, or paroling, a good many man-slayers about Christmas time. The Journal then suggested that the pardoning power was too great a power to be lodged in one man and that it should be taken away from the governor, i It was suggested we believe that a person who wants a pardon should be required to apply to the court in urViink Vi n woe W 1I1VU UV VVilTiVbVUI The Journal now commends Gov ernor Neff for removing the pardon ing board in Texas and for taking the matter of pardoning convicts into bis own hands. The Governor, we be'ieve, has adopted in some part the ideas of the Journal that the court in which, or judge, before whom, a man has been convicted must first take ac tion before there can be a pardon in any case. The question we jsuggest is not without difficulty, however the con \icted person must proceed, or to whomsoever he must look. If the prisons and penitentiaries are to be instruments for the reforming of criminals it may not seem unlikely that eighteen out of the whole num ber (and Governor Cooper pardoned eighteen we believe) have been re formed during the year. There is r?A i?orfoinf\r fV?of flio r?Aiivtc iirmilrl J1V V^i baillbj bUUl WI1?> V V U A kO ?UMHI have released fewer and none that the courts would have fiven the ap plications more or better considera tion than did the Governor. The pardoning power is a success or a failure, a good institution or a bad one, accordingly as it is adminis tered, wherever it may be lodged. We believe it was former Ambassador ^Brice who said that it was not our re publican form of government which had proved a success, but the Ameri ' can people, and that the American people would make a success of anv form of'government. We are not so r.ura of all this, but the pardoning of persons convicted of crimes will be* properly carried out not by requiring that the pardons be granted by one tribunal, or one person, rather than by another, but largely according to the degree of care and responsibility assumed by the person or tribunal in whom or in which the power is lodg ed. Few men, it may be said, who have had a good taste of prison life, ever return to the paths of crime, though some do. ABOUT GOOD ROADS The State of Frfday morning, among the news bills in the Senate states that a bill has been introduced by Senator Moore: A bill to amend Section 3 of an act entitled "An act to provide for hold ing an election in Abbeville county, I V [South Carolina, on the question of issuing $450,000 in coupon bonds for the building of permanent roads, etc,' approved the 6th of March, 1920, by deferring the sale of said bonds and providing that said bonds shall not be sold for less amount than par, net to the county. Read for the first tjme and ordered on the calendar without reference. COUSIN PERCY ARRIVES. Corp. Kerr, of Greenville Street, has been looking for Cousin Percy since before Christmas, but the look-f: ed-for kinsman did not arrive until I Thursday night. The reason was that Cousin Percy was. waiting until Mrs. Miller drew her dividend on her C. & O. stock so he could borrow the \ money to make the trip. I Cousin Percy came by way of At-! lanta. He wanted to get used to pav ed streets where there is much trav- ' eling before hitting Greenville Street. : He was due to get here Thursday af- ; ternoon on No. 5, as we were told by?J the Corp., but he didn't make it. The j I reason was that Cousin Percy was j talking with a friend who had shown : him a quart he stored away before : ] Mr. Volstead got in his work. As soon ;1 as he saw the quart Cousin Percy sat i1 down beside it, and there he stayed j until three jminutes before leaving 1 time. This didn't give him much,1 chance to catch the train, but he j' would have made it, he admits him-]* self, if he hadn't been like Lot's!' wife?he just couldn't help but look 15 back at the quart, and once, they do j] say, he went back to see "how' it.' really did look. This is the real rea-j1 ' son he did not arrive on No. 5. Butj" the reason he gave the people of!' Greenville Street was that he did not 1 like, after living in New York as long!; as he Has, to ride on a train with a;' small number like 54 so he waited j 9n<i came in on 18. ^ 'j1 I 11 Well, anyway, he got here at 10;20.1 He got off the train and looked about the station for the Corp. thinking, that he would come down in the She- j \ t dam. But the Corp. was not there.; He was firing the new furnace in the i Dutch Kolone. He said he wanted to'. show Cousin Percy a real heating i, plant, so he cocked-the furnace fori, a temperature of 110 and by the time'1 the train arrived, it was ready to' shoot. And so was Cousin Percy when he , got off the train in the sleet and snow and didn't find anyone to meet him. After looking about for awhile he discovered Tom Cosby's three ; seated Ford, gathered together from' an old carriage running gear, a For J ; Engine and a Mitchell wagon body, j Cousin Percy took the front sea; | the Omnibus and told the driver to, take him up to Mr. Kerr's. "I ain'i I never heerd of no sitch of a man.' ; said the driver. He said he didn't! know a man by the name of either j i Kerr or Carr, and he didn't think any;! such animaMived in this city. "What " street do he^live on?" the driver i asked. That is where Cousin Percy | thought he would shine. "On Green- J ville Street, ' he said. "I don't knowj whar that street is the driver said,: "but I know what a heap of streets ^ in Atlanta is," he added. "Well, whatj ' in the has Atlanta got to do:1 with it/" Cousin Percy asked. "Well,j' boss, I knowed you come from At- ^ lanta or Calhoun Falls one, cause I , smelt your breff, and I didn't see no |1 mud on" your feet and ki nved you ain't bin to Calhoun Falls.'' i' Well finally Coysin Percy reached; ( the Dutch Kolone. He found the Corp still firing the furnace and it j was almost as hot as the visitor. And!. he; hasn't done much but hunt fresh air since he got here. Early this morning he told one of the Green ville Street men who work, when1 I he was seen on the front porch of the Kolone, that he was getting fresh air still, "and that is about all { I see any promise of getting around this place anytime soon, not a soul is! up, and I am ready to eat." j i WANT OF NURSING j 3 New York, Jan. 27.?Seventy thou- . sand babies and 10,000 mothers died'; from child birth in the United States t last year for want of nursing, Mrs.; William K. Vanderbilt, member of i; the advisory council of the National j ] Organization for Public Health Nurs-i ing declared in a statement today. In New York the rate for infant j born dead was 24 for every 1,000 j among those who had prenatal care: while the rate was 45 where such) care was lacking, she said adding]; that the "same sort of thing is indi-.' catcd by figures from Boston." INDIANS HAD ELABORATE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Mayetta, Kan., Jan. 27.?The Fottowatomie Indians recently finish ed a two days' dance and feast in honor of the New Year. It was a celebration which every Indian on the reservation, a mile from here, attended, and many white guests were present, for the Pottowatomie feasts are famous for their quality and excellence. Barbecued beef is one of the favorite dishes. The reservation is twenty-five miles from Topeka, the capital of Kansas, and contains about eleven square miles of land. Approximately five hundred Indians are living there, and the land is fanned. The white man's civilization has flowed around the little reservation and left it, a relic of pioneer days in Kansas. Much of the wjiite man's civilization has, of course, been ab sorbed by the Pottawatomies; they all speak English and motor cars are commonplace among the red men. "I can remember," Mat Septa, a young Pottawatomie, said, "when the dancers and medicine men used to prophesy at our dances and how the white man would one day ride in carriages without horses, and fly through the air like birds. We used to think that was very wonderful, but we have seen it happen. Our J 1 .1 J -X lancers ?u>u turn ui nun uicic nvuiu be a great war among the white men, in which they would cross the sea to kill one another. That was the European war. I was in France six teen months myself and with the Eighty-ninth division. A great ex perience. You know, what I liked about the army, you always had friends and were not lonesome. But [ was glad to come home. "Our people live softer than they used to. When I was a little baby, often they used to\take us down to the bank of the creek winter morn mgs, and break tne ice ana maice us jump in. That was to make us hard and strong. They don't do that any more with our boys. "Our prophets tell of* another great war that will come among the white men ,and after that, they say, there will be no more war. They tell us that the white man's heart will be changed then, and that much of the land that once belonged to the In dian will be given back to him. I do not know. It is not good for my people to have too much money in their pockets, for they spend it swiftly." The Pottawatomies are proud of the fact that Charles Curtis, senior United States 'senator from Kansas, is of Pottawatomie ancestry, and still count him a member of their tribe, although they do not often see him on the reservation. "His time is tak".n up in the city of the Great White Father," the Pottawatomies explain, "but his heart is friendly toward his people." PERSHING IN THE SWIM Washington, Jan. 25.?General Pershing is to be at home informal ly to all out at High View (the Cor bin place at Chevy Chase) tomor-j row afternoon and on the two fol-l lowing Sundays. Presumably Mrs. Francis Warren, wife of the Senator from Wyoming (who is Gen. Persh ing's father-in-law) will play hostess for him, and will be assisted by his entire staff. General Pershing's 'Sunday's" promise to have any "Cabinet Wednesday" or "diploma tic Friday" left ab-the post in the social popularity handicap.. .New York Herald. OUT WEST Sioux City, Jan. 27.?F. D. Hass, railroad yardmaster, who was held up and robbed of $12 Wednesday! night, declared today that he had discovered an honest thief when he found the following note at his of fice: "Im the fellow who robbed you. J I was broke and out of a job, and J my wife and kids were going hun-! gry. But I got a job here and as soon as I get a little money ahead I will return what I stole from you." Hass said if he knew who the man and he'd give him "another $12 for being so honest." RAW SUGAR 4,CENTS New York, Jan. 27.?Raw sugar was quoted at 4 cents a pound in the market here today, the lowest price recorded in more than two years. This figure included cost' and freight was due to renewed pressure. DOING MISSIONARY WORK , The Press and Banner was deliv- | ered all over town Wednesday night J by Son Bill, nobly assisted by Hugh j Bradley, who trudged through sleet | and cold that our readers might have j the news. The boys were doing mis-j sionary work for when Col. C. E. | Williamson arrived at home early in i the evening he announced that the | weather was just too bad for a man j i to go to prayermeeting and he set i tied comfortably down in front of j a good grate fire. When he heard , Son Bill's whistle he said that if a j boy could deliver papers, he certain ly could go to prayer meeting and inj a short while he had joined the Bap- j ' Boosters on the front seat. TENDERFOOT SCOUTS A scout examination was held in i Rosenberg's Kail Friday afternoon beginnig at four o'clock. Frances A. Glenn, Richard Harris Parker, J. Happoldt Neuffer, Donald Doug | lass Harris, Robert Sumter Link Jr., were Tenderfoots who received certificates on Tuesday, January 25th. William P. Greene, Jr., Ernest Hughes, Frank Henry Neuffer, Wiil liam Donald Cox, George White Smith and Franklin Nickles passed their tenderfoot examination Friday afternoon of the thirty-five scouts who were gathered in the Hall to be examined, Mr. Derbyshire hoped to ' have them all Tenderfoot boys by dark. j The ne:ct meeting will be held in the hall at four o'clock Tuesday af ternoon. HIGH PRIEST BRYANT HERE The meeting of the Hesperian I Chapter of the Abbeville Masons ! was held Thursday night. The Royal Arch Degree was given by Past High Priest George T. Bryan of Greenville. After the business meeting a de lightful banquet was served by the 'ihe ladies of the Associate Reformed church in the store on North Main street belonging to the Phoenix Real ty Company. The tables were beau tifully laid and the dinner was ela borate. Handsome young women waited on the tables and music on the victrola added to the pleasure of the evening. ABBEVILLE AHEAD. Superintendent Townsend of the Electric Light office came through the sleet and ice with flying colors. He only had one wire down over the whole town and this was mended be fore the women could begin to "cuss' about their electric stoves. There was no trouble with the phoqes. THE EMBROIDERY CLUB Mrs. Charlie Tuggle was hostess to the Thursday afternoon Sewing Club this week at her home on Pinckney street. This club has about a dozen members who greatly enjoy the social entercourse and j find their work pleasant while they ! talk. Mrs. Tuggle served delightful refreshments. Shaving, according to one doctor increases neuralgia and other troubles o:f the face, and so tends 1;o shorten life. PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN ?55 ? r-7?! I Nope, this isn't the Undertaker, but ! old Whatsa Use promoting business for him by Hanging Crepe. He feels Bad and wants Company, but all he Gels is Mean Looks, which Confirm his Opinion that this is a Tuff Old World. He hasn't Smiled since the Tigs Ate Willie and now he Can't be cause hi? Fare has Set. 320,000,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT ON HAND Washington, Jan. 27._-Wheat stocks on hand in the United States January 1, 1921, totalled 320,000, 000 bushels, according to an esti mate made public today by the De partment of Agriculture. This fig ure with 417,000,000 bushels on hand a year ago. THE MORNING BRIDGE The Morning Bridge Club met Wednesday morning with Mrs. Lewis Perrin. Mrs. Percy Miller, of New York, Mrs. J. D. Pulp and Miss Eugenia Robertson were the guests of the occasinn. Thp Trinrnincr was pleasantly spent. The Mid-night Revelers, an organ ization of the young folks of the i town are meeting with Miss Eva Reames tonight. The Revelers al ways have a gooci time and the club is enjoyed. Kemova I have moved my ?tc Store on Vienna Sti boar Depot to the Si pied by Mike's Placi Here vou will fine pleteline of Stapl ceries, Fresh Meats, Etc., at all times. C little lower and our none. J.H.F Da?Ja1I'/. DU5UG11 5 is the place to Fresh or Cured \ N BEEF, Pork, Pu ftf ___1 c_ lvuxea .jauga Cured Ham, 1 ter, Eggs, Fish ai we carry a full lin Our Prices Any cuts of steal Beef Roast, per It Stew Beef, per lb Pork Chops and Pork Steak . . ' Pork Saugage . Mixed Sausage . Cured Ham, per Boiled Ham, per Sliced Bacon Strip Boxed Breakfast E Call Phone 102 ; in the meat line for. Prompt delive BOSDELL'S Trinity St. ABOUT TREES The street paving is going on on Church street and is going to be a fine improvement on that side of town. The neighbors are still on friendly terms but there is some lively talk about cutting the trees down. The paving company warns the residents that if the trees are left, in a few years the sidewalks will be full of ridges and broken places. The majestic live oak in Fort Pickens in front of the old Jane Williams place has been cut down. GAS.PARILLA James Bradley and Howard Har gis leave Monday for Tampa, F1&., where they will take in the pleas ures of Gasparilla, a mid-winter fes tival similiar to Madi'Gras in New Orleans. The boys expect to have a good time despite the fact that they will be chaperoned by Rev. Henry Pressley. 1 Notice >ck from the Calvert eet near the Sea tore formerly occu e on Trinity Street. i a fresh and com e and Fancy Gro , Country Produce, >ur prices arp just a lines are second to INLEY Market get any kind of IEATS ire Pork Sausage, | ige, Boiled Ham, 1 Bacon Staips, But ld Oysters?And Le at all times.... Are Right: :, per lb. . 35c >. . 25c and 30c , ... 20c I Pork Roast 35c I . . 40c I . . . . 40c . . . . 30c lb. . . . 50c lb. . . . 70c >s, per lb. . 65c Jacon . . 70c and get anything you have a taste >ry at all hours MARKET Abbeville, S. C.