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Vol. 13 No.6 " 'J ?CT0BER 18' 1922' >1.00 per year OUR EXCHANGES The Kershaw Era. i - It was a very gracious act on ? the part of the railroads in South Carolina to announce that they i will transport Confederate veterans free to and from the State Fair. Sometimes the railroads < set accused of being soulless corporations,? but occasionally some event transpires iri their ' experience which indicates that 1 they are not altogether soulless ' and we take pleasure in calling attention thereto in this instance i and add a word of commenda- \ tion for this fine consideration 1 shown the old Vets. We believe the old fellows of the '60s will ( appreciate it. ????? { The Journal p-ul Review. The reac <as set in. Dur- i ing the past two weeks of the < many cases heard in the Aiken \ court of General Sessions there ] was but one acquittal. Two imnArtant mi.r/far iridic moro AAm. I^vimui kuutuwi itamo fiviv %?vrwu j pleted with n conviction of the , defendants and each was denied , a new trial nnd received a life , sentence for his crime promptly. The people have at last awaken a realization 'of the deplor- ! fetation the Southland has "placed in by its scarlet list suicides, and the day seems here when a proper regard for t human life and just punishment < for its destruction shall be de- i manded of all men. Without < ^^reference to the two Aiken cases 1 particular, there has been < .all Avar tha ^tatp a sat the part of petit Mmv * out crime by ( about its good effect. The Spartanburg Journal. Everybody is praising governor. Harvey for the fight be has been making forTBTeen force me nt of law and the punishment of crime in South Carolina Onp of the men in this community who has watched his course with high satisfaction, said yesterday: MI do not think anything that could be said in approval of Governor Harvey's course would be extravagant. For the first time in years the Law has found voice and the people rejoice. I did not think he would do it; but he has done it. The fact that he l . l:. .i- -1 - - * iihb &c|H uib uutu ui umce, mat he has not thought of what effect his official course might have on f1 his political future, would sug- 1 gest that a legislative or constitutional provision providing that 1 - no Governor of South Carolina should be eligible to more than one term in that office. Such a provision would make the occupant of the office indifferent to whatever clamor might be made by spiritual advisors, Ue- 1 serving dependents, "conscientious objectors," impressionable : females bearing flowers to bloody handed men condemned by the law to long imprisonment * or execution. The judges have spoken with splendid spirit from the Bench; the Press almost without exception has joined in the { crusade against Crime; the Pulpit ( will soon add its powerful influ- j ence to the movemet which un- , der the leadership of Governor 1 Harvey has set the state on fire. i I "We" Editors ( "Ma," said a newspaper man's 1 on, "I know why editors call themselves Mwe.M "Why?" "So's J the man that doesn't like the I article will think there are too } Miuy people for him to tackle,*" IT IS SAD) Care is an enemy to life.? ' Shakespeare. 1 A work of real merit finds fa- 1 iror at last.?A. Bronson Alcott. ! That which is everybody's bus- , iness is nobody's business.?Izaak , Walton. * I It is not what he has, nor even < what he does, which directly ex- > presses the worth of a man, but 1 what he is.?Amiel. 1 Heaven sometimes hedges a 1 rare character about with un... ; < jainliness and cdium, as me Durr that protects the fruit.?Emerson. The eye of an avaritious man cannot be satisfied with wealth, my more than a well can be fillcd.with dew.?Saadi. The Bible stands alone in human literature ip its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.?Henry Ward , Beecher. Adversiiv .is sometimes hard jpon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.?Carlyle. To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes bave very small experience provided he has. a very large heart. ?Bulwer-Lytton. ! Humility is the true proof of ' Christian virtue; without it we ' retain all our faults, and they are only covered by pride to hide Ihem fiom others, and often from ourselves.?La Rochefoucauld. Every man who can be a firstrate something?as every man can he who is a man at all?hat ? mr Rot TdHbe a thinj^; for a fifth-rate something is nolj better than a first-rate nothing.-V' G. Holland. Degrees infinite of lustre there must always be, but the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to himV'jfrifl ^AfcUw^worthily used, will Le a gift also to ilia race forever.?Ruskin. It Does Not Pay 1. To "have a good time" at the expense of an uneasy con _ .? - science me next morning:. 2. To lose our temper at the expense of losing: a friend. 3. To cheat a corporation at the expense of robbing our own < souls. i 4. To go to church in the 1 morning if we are planning: to go to the devil in the evening:. 5. To have an enemy if we i can have a friend. 1 6. To sow wild oats if we have to buy our own crop. ' 7. To spend the last half ot i life in remorse or regjret for the i first half. ft ' I 'a Ko /4Ior?/\n o t ? U UV- UIOLUUIIWUJ) II1CVC ' :enl, cynical, cruel, or vulvar. < 9. To give God the husks in- 1 rtead of the heart. i 10. To live at all unless we i ive for all. 1 ?Charles M. Sheldon. An Apt Reply j A bright youth, undergoing | examination for admission to ( >ne of the departments at Wash-n n. ton, found himself confronted] i w h the question: j " ?Vhat is the distance from the f jar.Ii to the sun?" I N >t having the exact number j >f it: ilea with him, he wrote in ( epl : j "I :m unable to state accurate- i y, hut I don't think the sun is r] tear.enough to interfere with a * irooar performance of mv duties x f J get this clerkship." Hv ?Qt it.?Texas Sittings, High Tariff Hurdles jjji Columbia Record - r Although the Republican laj| boosters postponed that blun^H lo the very eve of the congiH >ional election, there is ev$H sign today that the voters of tfl nation will rise m their wrath aifl rebuke the party at the comhfl battle of ballots, as they did ol i former occasion. The women now armed with the sufferagfl weapon will doubtless use it, S we may judge the future by M past. 'M The present campaign remittal pne forcibly of the McKirn9| tariff which went into effjH ibout 1890. The RepublicaS were then in power and badV majority in the House of RepiB tentives of 150 or more. TH people then, as now, began to tm bel against the higher price bufl ien. A spool of thread that hJ previously sold for 5 cents wal boosted to 8 or 10 cents, and pther necessary items followed Lhe upward price trend. The women, then, as now pro! tested, but they were impotent at the ballot box. Rui thJj women had enough influence with the men to turn the ^rasicafi Ranks of Confederate Vets RapIdly Thinning Ont Only 75,066 Confederate veterans, out of the more than a million who fought for the South during the Civil War, are now living, according to statistics compiled by Col. Francis M. Burrows, of the staffof Gen. Julian S. Carr, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans Of this number 65,707 are drawing pensions, 1,859 are in soldiers' homes and 7,500 are unknown. The statistics show that 58,987 widows of Confederate soldiers ^re receiving pensions and 667 negro veterans are in home. Texas leads in the number of turviving yeterans with 14.959 jn ioe pension rons and Z5t> in lomes. Georgia and Arkansas Hand next with 9,006 pensioners md 105 and 100 respectively in tomes. Statistics by states follow: States Pensioners, In Homes Mabama 4,306 70 \rkansas 0,000 100 Florida 1,471 33 Georgia 9,000 105 Kentucky - 1,00 190 Maryland 25 Mississippi 5,632 164 Missouri x 1,200 236 'Ouisana 2,298 43 ^orth Carolina 6,250 120 Oklahoma 1,411 78 KHith Carolina 3,732 56 rennessee 2.456 84 rex as 14,969 256 Virginia 4,982 214 Vest Virginia 65,707 1,159 ; > iess Cone To Stay. larlotte Observer. the row that France, out own or any other nay make over the retiling: tor the sens, liqeone from the vessels ean as surely as it has n the saloons on land, thing: yet to be done is Shipping: Board to adto the new conditions te ways and means by elost revenue may be . The suggestion is adhat lower rates mig;ht for the dry American out of power/' and the DemocrJ ic party defeated the Republican in the succeeding; fall electifl overwhelmingly, winning ttH House of Representives by nejH ly 200 majroity. This yearatjk wouia appear is a splendid ifBttl for history to repeat itself. Ne~ ero workmen, who lost their job? as a result of the dull times cijwfc ed by the tariff law in 1880, were mobilized on the streets, following the Democratic vic^gMM Uo^p to account as they called the^HH allowed that they couldn't ex peer, anything but defeat since their party chiefs had sternly refused to "pay off the McKinley bill." Angry sounds, constanllv gaining: momentum at this time from all angles of the hinterland indicate that somebody is preparTntrRrpa^ off the Fordney-Mcrumher MllTfinirfalL |^w? and undoubtedly t h d ^^Eap" ticket is a great AmeriHBnducement. But atter all fi^^Hdie revenue from sale of a really consequential Henry Ford's paper. mHra>earborn Independent, I^HnT a high official of the EH^^Rlwned White Star line as ^^^Bireported a falling off in from the ocean saloon, ^B|Bg a change in attitude the seagoing public in h^^Bo the matter. The arguthat formerly the tourists j?9^Bd a continental tolerance ISHKiSe of wines and spirits. S^Kheadoption of prohibition, ggBEyer, ocean liners have been jngBted with a small but noisy fiSBele of bibulous persons yMe conduct has been as ofpjflBm as their mouthing ol Kohal liberty" protests. The QBral result has been a falling fjB|^ the popularity of the bai jSragg the more contained trav Ipfc' shipping men repon most of their ran onnii?,lt*e8 *? ?hhiin prohibit Jin Automobile Conscience j.m a big, red auto, and if I ho< m way ever car would be red jt such an inviting color, and ^,!D I speed up an go througl country like a streak, there ii ootjiiag sombre about me. Ai aut > should suggest the powei fln(j joyous abandon of life any r. I'm a high-powered car, o clasfy mo<'e^anc*pa*^ *or withou rtgage, and what's more I gc I t^c*u regularly, as every de ce v sen-respecting car snouia j jkdn't always go, but I've re . lied. When my owner firsi me he could hardly wait un til srQ(^ay came. He was up ai 8jx ^tuning me up and getting rea^y 'or a run *n!o country, jor jishing, golf or a picnic. He jrally invited some othei . ch members, and I'm nol sa *ag that it did them much hare* yet !^e day's Pleasure als ended with a question mar*?was that really the best use *? * could be put on the wee^ C>ming home one Sunday \ ? i:.L! A T l_ A. |ro*n? k usuiug mp, i was caugni jQ a rainstorm without chains. I skidf*e(* on the country roads (I ... I't mean to) and slipped over : .ink and pitched the whole narr 0ut* Fortunately, none hurt, but my owner was badtaken. He was quite sober, IJL j bis only remark on the way was, "Thankiul I didn't h?5k my f?o1 neck " "v^Sxt Sunday he surprised me . , ^oingtochurch. The service Jt have gripped him, for I P "?d him say to the missus, "wl*ve missed a whole lot reTrly, haven't we?" cVbw every Sunday I go load,l y>icking up tired children and j?ig old people home from ser J .JJand out for a ride in the afI'-fjxmi, it the weather js pleasWorker, WITH THE POETS ? J > ? ' ' Autumn Western winds of autumn, sighing Long and low beneath the trees, Where the tinted leaves are lying, Scarcely rustled by the breeze. Friend of sorrow! bring thy balming To the weary sons of strife, Lay thy quiet hand of calming On the fevered pulse of life. Golden autumn, how I love thee! With thy low, deep, mellow song, Chanting round, beneath, above me. Lessons thou hast taught me long; Lessons of the heart's submission, Breathing out a holy calm, Solemn chords of soul-contrition ( Blending into one deep psalm. Teaching that in life's great myst'ry There is autumn time for me, Where its dim, perplexing hist'ry Merges into melody; Bright the blooms of hope supernal Youth's sweet hours before me spread Fragrance that I dreamed eternal Round my feet their petals shed. And no more I weep, and wonder How all loss evolveth gain, Though life's hollow eehoes thunder To the ehaos of my pain; i 'Neath God's autumn winds of sorro Lies the promise of His spring! Hope shall find in that glad morrow Bright, eternal blossoming. 1 ?Selected. Ike Empty Place 1 A. homeless Bad Habit wet searching one day 1 For a spot where it snugly coul " settle and stay; It hung round Fred's door fc three hours by the clock, : But never found courage to ste up and knock. The place was too busy an crowded, you see, e breakfast to bed. "I might pusb my way in thought the Habit, "but the Every corner is filled, I'd 1 turned out again. It's no use to hang round; this j no place for me," [, And it went off as downcast i lt downcast could be. * But Tim's door stood open, n s far down the road; > No crowd was about it, no biu r le it showed. - The hall was deserted, the stuc f was bare, t And the habit stepped in with > satisfied air. "Ah, here's what I want," it r marked with a grin; * "I can settle in peace, and gro into a Sin. ' Jim's life is so idle and empty, see, ' That it's ]ust the right home fc 1 an inmate like me." I * So it stayed and it grew till it fi t led the whole place, t And owned Jim in the bargaii and Drought Dim disgrace. , Poor Jim: Other boys, too, shoul t keep a lookout i For many Bad Habits go searcl ing about. ?Exchange Be Kind to the Old Be kind and be gentle To those who are old, For dearer is kindness, And better than gold. Two Friends "In-a-minute** is a bad friend He makes you put off what yoi ought to do at once, and so h< gets you into a great deal o trouble. "Right-Away** is a good friend He helps you to do pleasantly and quickly what you are aske< to do, and he never gets you iott trouble, * RELIGIOUS MATTERS A Higher Destiny We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.? Lytton. A Neglected Bible A neglected Bible means a starved and strengthless spirit; a comfortless heart; a barren life; and a grieved Holy Ghost. If the people, who are now perpetually running about to meetings for crumbs of help and comfort, l, would only stay at home and search their Bibles there would be more happiness in the Church, and more blessing in the world. It is prosaic counsel; but it is true.?F. B. Meyer. Keeping the Heart If we are to keep our hearts with all diligence, we must be kept by the power of God and that power is not merely to make division outside the beleagured it fortress which may force the beseigers to retreat antt give up d their effort, but is to enter in and possess the soifl which it wills to >r defend. It is when the enemy sees that new succors have, in p some mysterious way, been introduced, that he gives up his d seige. It is Cod in us that is our for ourselves. What is it to be i.w patient? It is in your experience n, and in mine a practical exercise >e for which life gives us daily opportunity. We are not patient ?? wucu we are uoamiaoie, although we may bear up against _ as hardships with grim fortitude. To be patient and fretful at one ot and the same time is impossible. Whoever would be patient must it. be cheerful, and to be cheerful in the face of discouragement, [y to be patient when things go wrong and to maintain optimism a when physically depressed are about as difficult as to walk into a den of lions or, in the words of e" the hymn, "to face a frowning world." w j Giving Is Getting Giving is getting. This prin>r ciple is true in many departments of life. Bodily strength comes 1. from its expenditure, not from its hoarding. Every wise use of 3| a muscle adds to the power of that muscle. An arm carried in d a sling for its preservation stif? fens and withers. An arm which I. swings a great hammer takes on largeness and vigor with every generous sweep through the air. It is use, not the possession of any material treasure, that gives it the highest value. Merely to have it bears no comparison in pleasureableness with its right employment. Well-filled library shelves are of no benefit to their owner so long as the books re uiaiu iucac uuupuncui ijill niv best volume on those shelves I. would have an added value to 11 its user if it were "read to pieces," e as one might say. Money gathf ered and kept for its own sake increases the discontent and I. cravings of its holder; while mo/ ney spught and handled tor its i beneficent uses gives pleasure ) and satisfaction to him who employ* it,?G. T. B. Hallock> i