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IT IS SAID
Silence is the best resolve for
him who distrusts himself.?La <
Rochefoucauld. <
How victorious is silence!?f1
Longfellow.
Every sin provokes its punishment.?A.
Bronson Alcott.
There is ulways a best way
of doing everything, if it be to
boil an egg.?Emerson.
The heavens are nobly elo
quent of the Deity, and the
most magnificent heralds of their
Maker's praise.?James Hervy.
To be prepared for war is one
of the most effectual means of
preserving Deace ?Georee Wash- .
iogton.
Kind words are benedictions.
They are not only instruments
of power, but of benevolence
and courtesy; blessings both to
the speaker and hearer of them.
?Frederick Saunders.
Better to wear out than to rust
out.?Bishop Cumberland.
Moral Geoaraphy
The longest river is Time.
The deepest ocean is Death.
The hiehest mountain is call
ed Success. Few reach the top, t
save those who watch sharply .
for the passing of the spirit of 3
the mountain, Opportunity, who ,
carries upwuiu all those that ?
seize hold upon hini. t
The most highly civilized coun- ,
try is Today.
The region where no man hath j
ever set foot is called Tomorrow, j
The region where no living t
thing hath habitation is called c
Yesterday. f
The greatest desert is called |
1?Ia Knit, U
. nuu it uam iuodj wages. I
These are called Hope and Am- s
bition and Love and Charity and
Home; and of them all, the last
is the most beautiful. Besides
these, are many others, smaller
in extent, whence the traveller
obtaineth refreshment during
the weary journey through life.
?Author unkown.
The Prospective Tariff
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The big talk of the Republi- *
cans about tne lat tunes to be I
brought about through protective j
tariff would be laughable were it 1
- not so serious. Protective tariff <
enriches the few by robbing the 1
many.l It is special privilege
with a vengence. Protectiye
tariff "destroys competition, ,
creates high prices by restricting
production, and the poor pay the i
bill. Look at the country today. ]
The farmer's wheat is going |
down to the bottom. Waaes t
keep going down. Merchandise <
is high, Shoes are high. What (
the working mau has to sell is .
going down. What he has to j
bu) is going up. A fine thing, is t
this robber doctrine, it is a good s
doctrine, as well!?Union Times. *
The Missouri River j
The Missouri is one of the 1
great drainage channels of the j
United Slates, measuring in total ,
length about 2,400 miles. According
to the United States Geological
Survey, Department of
the Interior, it drains 527,155
square miles, a territory as great
as that embraced in all the States
south of New York and east ol
the Mississippi, except Indiana
and Illinois.
Although the Missouri is no
longer utilized to any extent as a
means of communication and
transportation, it is destined to
play a large part in the development
of its drainage basin by
furnishing water for"lrrigation .
and generating power. !
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A Cure for Faultfinding
The Youth's Companion
It is so easy to find fault, so
sasy to stand by and criticize
what others do, to imagine what
night have been accomplished
lud to set it up as a fatal standard
tor what has been accomplished!
Ito slip into the habit of thinking
?uch things is dangerously easy,
ina wnen we tninK mem 11 is
difficult to refrain from saying
[hem. Perhaps the best cure is
o say little or nothing; but for
he most part humanity is not
iontrived that way.
A help to preserving a better ,
lttitude in the matter-is to con- 1
iider not so much what people '
lave actually done as what they
ried to do. Once understand i
vhat they were aiming at and i
/ou will understand something
>f their difficulties, and perhaps
n the end you will be astonish- i
id, not that they have accom
dished so Utile, but that they
lave accomplished so much.
Also that understanding will
ie vastly tacilitated if you go
arther and consider whether in
heir place you would have done
ixaclly the same, or even less
veil. You are human as they
irp vnnr mpcinc nnH rnnnrilv arp
imiled as theirs aie, perhaps
iven more limited. When you
estimate the complication of cir-u
UiOIUllCCS And put y ourself, >
>-our own blundering, mistaking,
egrettmg, ever-recommencing (
elf, right into them, your tol
irance for the failures of others
will be immensely increased.
For this is the best cure of all:
ostead of dwelling upon the ^
aults of others, to give a littje atention,
cTr even a g'Ocrfleat 'of
mention, to your own. It is ^
dally quite as easy to find flaws
n your own^lucgp fieM oflifp as 1
h others*, in fact much easier,
unce you are even more familiar
with your own mistakes than
with theirs. Tae trouble is that
t is much less agreeable. This
ittle unkindness, that little social
iwkwardness, the sharp, harsh
word vou uttered ves'.erdav when
i small matter went wrong?it is
much more unpleasant to remember
those than to point out
1 friend's shortcomings. It is,
liowever, much more profitable
rhose were wise words of Or.
ando's, the good wrestler, the
?ood lover, and the good friend:
'I will chide no breather in the
world but myself, against whom
[ know most faults."
Sodium Widely Distributed
The element sodium is very
widely distributed in the earth.
It forms about 2.36 per cent of
mown terrestrial matter, accordng
to the United States Geologi:al
Survey, and is the most abunJant
of the alkali metals. Sodium
tppears to occur in nature only
in combination with other ele
ments, if its alleged occurrence
is the free element in blue rock
salt is neglected. It is an importint
constituent of the feldspars
and several otiier insoluble niin
erals from which sodium sales
are not extracted commercial!*
taut which are nevertheless regarded
as the ultimate source of
the salts that are soluble in
water.?Youtes Companion.
Personality
Persistency
Earnestness
Reliability
Sociability
Optimism
Neatness
Assurance
Loyalty
Initiative
Temperance
Youlhfulness
Vhe above is an analysis of
ibe personality that wins, by V.
L. I'rice.
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Without a Church jTi
Charlotte Observer I
Mr. Hickman, the Baptise
preacher of Gaffney, who was a
candidate in the late primaries ill tei
South Carolina, and an cvpen ad-!y(
vocate for Cole L. Blease, wasiai
asked shortly after the election tO'fo
quit that pulpit. The deaconsfci
have later joined in the request'
and the preacher has quit. Butip<
in a public statement in c xplanu-]je
lion of his retirement, he indi In
.u ~ . ? ? - -
v.uic9 iuui ii was iiui an on ac-jtt
count of his championship of Mr.ffi
Blease. It seems that he has anils
un-American war record. For anly
established case of opposition tofe
the Government's war policies h Hi
was at one time fined $500, andTdi
it is his own admission that this , ft
is his third and last church to lose'j.m
"on account of my stand on thejw
war." About time he was seeking ff*
some charge in Germany. He?
might find a church over there Hi
to which he could stick atidni
which would stick by him. Bouncing
Baby is Found UponF
Anderson Porch J/
Anderson, Oct. 24 ?A bounc-ife.
ing two months-old baby girl;
wrapped in a luxurious bundled ?
clothing and snugly tucked away ?
in a drummer's sample case, was <5
left on Mr.^md Mrs. I E. Martin's J?
front porch in the lower edge oif|?
Anderson county the night olgc
Oct. 24. Av/akened by theR
baby's cries. Mrs. Martin saw an ?
automobile drive off in the dark?- 1
j - sUm
uess. anu later discovered {||f
woman's size 2 shoe track in the 1 sj
front walk. ! ?
"Wouldn't take a house aid lo?p!j
for her," Mr. Martin replied yesVW
lerday, when asked if the childJ J
would be adopted. "Have aT-nJW
thp VHrxKieSt nieir Wtt\? nertoother^
is, but she can come to see the< &
baby if she wants to. Mrs. Mar- ?c
tin and myself wouldn't care"
The girl has been christened p
Mary Louise. - She is enjoying a ^
gallon can of malted milk left be- ^
side the sample case. ^
The Good and Bad
How's vour cotton crop this
year?" I asked a Chesterfield
county farmer one day last week *p
"1 am making a fairly good
yield this year," said the man.
"You know my farm is sandy
and not very fertile, and I'm
making more cotton than some
_ l !_l.l ^
oi my neiguuors wno nave Del- ^
ler land.
"Do you think vou,can grow a
cotton another year?" the farmer
was asked.
"I know it. This is our third
years'experience with the boll ~
weevil. With proper cultivation
thin land where cottou does not j
grow rank is where we are go
ing to make the most cotton
Toe Lord in my opinion nev- *
er put all the good in one spot
and all the bad in another. Our ^
poor sandhill land is coming; in*
to its own."
And the man may be right ?
Monroe Enquirer. ?
Woodrow Wilson Can Vote In p
New Jersey 1
SI
Trenton, N. J , Oct. 24.?The tf
ruling made several days ago by j|
the Mercer county board of elec- ^
lions which deprived former ^
President Woodrow Wilson from
voting in the state of New lersey r|
<l.va* * h .-v ir o 1 /%
Uliuei IUC UU5CIIICC VUICI9 I rt w
was reversed tonight by State
Aitornev General McCJran. The ti
decision of the attorney general
is based on a supreme court rul- D
ing which holds that a voter's
residence is deter.lined by his
intention. Under the decision r
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will vote as i
citisens of Princeton, N. f. IV
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[me to War on the Boll Weevil?Now
The State.
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It is a great mistake for those (
rpecting: to plant cotton next 1
ear to assume that the fight j
yainst the boll weevil need not 1
b entered upon until the 1923 (
roo has heen nljinted. '
It there is one thing the exerts
who have studied the sublet,
in the schools of both theot
and practice, are agreed upon,
is that the time to begin the
ght for next year's production
as soon as possible after har
esting this year's crop. Expernents
have proved that the ear
er the cotton stalks are cut
own and plowed under in. the
ill, the smaller th^ number of
reevils appearing in the spring,
loreover. this method is a snnnH
irming policy.
Wilh equal insistance they 1
rge the early clearing of fielddges
and ditch-edges and the
urning of the brush.
The second point of importnce
on which the experts agree
i that it is economically disas- .
?us to olant land in cotton that
fould not produce, if free from
reevil attack, a half-bale to the 1
|?re. Fighting the weevil sucessfully
necessitates expense for 1
Material and the going over from
iree to six times of every foot
( ground planted. The cost is 1
bt greatly different in protect!?
an acre that normally would
ipduce a bale than that incur ,
jjl in protecting the same acre
at normally would produce
ijy one fifth as much. It is obgMS
that the latter is not worth
and should not be*.
Rhaboll weevil can he nnnn
E^deCeaUd, but in-order to acregressive
farming methods will
ave generally to be employed 1
i the South. Those new meth- 1
ds involye close study of the
roblems, more canstant atten
on to the farm, and a greater
egree of energetic work than
eretofore employed.
Gambling and Gambling
That what is gambling to one (
erson may be merely an innpent
pastime in the opinion of
}me other people seems to be
idieated by the way some people
rho would not think of playing:
ards for stakes played gambling:
evices at the recent county fair
ere quite frankly and openly
nd seemingly withoutgiving the
ambling feature a thought
ome people who would be
uick to condemn a cart! game for
akes cheerfully paid the price
) pitch a ball for a chance at a
oil or to try their luck with a
'heel or some other device,
tn't gambling by some other
ame just as bad as it is when
ou frankly call it gambling??
'he Lumberlon Robeson ion.
Politics In Amen Corner
During a recent political camaign,
two deacons of the sane
liih religiously, but on opposite
des of the fence politically, at
mded prayeimeeting.
"Oh Lord," intoned the Repubcan
deacon. "I pray Thee, that
le Republicans may hang to
ether?"
"Amen," ejaculated the Demorat.
,
"But not, O Lord," continued
i Republican, "in the sense
tt my Democratic brother
1 ans, but in the sense of accord
d concord."
"Any cord'll do. Lord; any
rd'll do!" was the Democrat's
>sing t h r u s t.? Everybody's 1
lagazine. i
The Death Penalty
The Spartanburg1 Journal.
We do not think the Associated
i'tess dispatch which follows
das been published here, but if it
ins been it is well worth reprinting
because of the steadily increasing
body of public sentiment
in favor of punishing crime
as its enormity demands for the
common welfare:
"Detroit, Oct. 18.?The murder
rate is increasing in the Unit
eel States because, in the opinion^
of leading statesmen, capital
punishment is not inflicted in all
eases of deliberate murder and
because misguided sentimental
ists are interesting themselves
in behalf of murderers, Henry
Bariett Chamberlain, operating
director of the Chicago Crime
Commissi on, declared tonight
before the American Prison Association.
"Crime, though incurable, can
be minimized and controlled,
and capital punishment is a deterrent
and does reduce murder,
he asserted, speaking on the subject,
"The importance of the
Death Penalty for the Murderer."
"The right of the State to execute
a murderer does not exist
because of the gravity of the
offense, but solely because of the
necessity for protecting itself
from the murder" he said. "Abolition
of the death penalty for
murder in this country usually
has been for short periods, followed
by its restoration when
the murder rate rose."
"Mr. Chamberlain said he believed
irresponsible slavers
should not be allowed to remain
at large, and was inclined to
agree witfc -newspaper editorial
he read sometime ago that "irresponsibles
should be painlessly
murderer who has been put to
death by Law The only safe
Judge is the fudge who pronounces
the penalty prescribed
by law fox the crime committed
byth. murderer, the manslaver,
the rapist, the firebug, the thief
arraigned for sentence before the
Court. The only safe State or
community or county in which
to live is the State, community
or county whose official representatives
do not shield the criminals,
but who execute the law.
A Beetle Story
A beetle weighing two grains
is able to move a weight of five
and one-half ounces, or 1,320
times its own weight. A man
weighing 150 pounds, if proporg
tionately strong, could thus move
198.0OO nnnnds. or nearlv a hun
dred tors. Some years ago I
captured a very handsome beetle
and placed it under a beaker?a
thin tumbler used in chemical
analysis?on a shelf of my laboratory.
A few hours after the
beetle had disappeared very mysteriously.
the beaker remaining
inverted. He was recaptured
and again placed under the beaker.
I watched the result and
presently found that the beetle
walked the tumbler along the
shelt till it reached the edge, then
crept out and fell as soon as the
overhang was sufficient to afford
room for escape.?W. Mattieu
Willmmc in Ot>ntlpmunf<? iMnan.
zine.
God's almanac has but one day,
lhat is Today.
Satan's almanac has but one
day, that is Tomorrow.
The fool's almanac has but
one day, that is By and by.
A man must be either a Christian
or an unsaved sinner; there
is no neutral ground. Which
are you??Exchange.
MORAL ISSUES
A Belter Way
If we notice little pleasures
As we notice little pains;
If we quite forgot our losses
And remembered all our gains;
If we looked for poeple's virtues,
And their faults refuse to see.
What a comfortable, happy,
Cheerful place this world would be!
?Youth's Companion.
The Blessing of Work
One of the best things for any
young man is work. Idleness is
the devil's trap. Work is the
liberation of energy, the channel
of achievement. Whatever
one may lack of native talent
may be compensated for by patient
and persevering drudgery.
The young man who does not
have to work is to be pitied; the
man who won't work is to be
condemned; the man who is willing
to work but can find no
iifArlr 4/\ * I rv 1* ? . ? ? ?
>v wi rv iuuu auuuiu navt' UU1 111 pathy
and our aid. But work is
a generic term. One can work
with his brains as well as with
his hands; on his knees as well as
on his feet; with his pen as well
as with his pick; with his pocketbook
as well as with his plumbline;
with his prayers as well as
with his possessions. God has
not held any of us up to one single
line of duty. Obligation is as
wide as lite, and our energies
should be as expansive as our
vision and as generous as our
prayers.?Christian Observer.
The Worth ol A Soul
In the shop of a diamond merer
all brought to bear on what ^
ocvuicu iv u? a , small piece Ol
Klaw. One might be sure of the
if he would but loot'arouncPKfft *
see what skill and labor were being
expended upon it. God has
laid out tor the pood of a soul
the watchfulness of angels, the
providence of this world, the
glory of the next, the councils of
eternity, Himself and all that he
hath, the Holy Spirit and all His
Divine influences?yea, He spared
not His only Son. Say, soul,
what must thou be worth thus to
have all Heaven's thought and
power and love laid out for thee?
?Selected.
When one enters into the common
life, resolved to live it in
the spirit of lesus, bringing: into
all its occupations, even the
homeliest, the faithfulness, the
thoroughness, the courtesy, the
consideration, the gentleness of
ideal demeanor, then to him it
given, in answer to his gift, the
blessing <:f the wise men, and
under his own roof, through the
street he lives in be narrow as
that in which the carpenter and
liia (amtlv niorp 1 nH(hp T rirrl
Christ shall appear daily.? Geo.
Hodges.
Rothschild's Rules
When Meyer Rothschild, founder
of the great banking house
in Frankfort, Germany, died, he
left something better than wealth
?an example that has become a
tradition in this noted family.
He also left precepts. Among
them were the following:
Carefully examine every detail
of your business.
Be prompt in everything.
Take time to consider, but decide
positively.
Dare to go forward.
Bear troubles patiently.
Be brave in the struggle of life.
Never tell business lies.
Make no useless acquaintances.
Pay your debts promptly.
Shun strong liquors.
Employ your time well.
Do not reckon on chance.
Work hard.
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