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them of course?but the test will come to us particularly. "Do you realize that, roughly speak-; ing, we are t'-e only great nation at present disengaged? 1 am not speak. ing, of course, with disparagement of the greater of those nations in Europe which are not parties to present war, T X T ? ??v -C a! ACA A1 Cr'^ OUt X a.Ill I'tilil CI V i^oc j borhood to it. I am thinking how their | lives, mucLi more than ours, touch | the nrery iieart and stuff of the business; whereas, we have rolling between us and tiiose bftter days across the water 3,000 miles of cool and silent ocean. Our atmosphere is not yet charged with those disturbing elements whida must be felt and must permeate every nation of Europe. Therefore, is it not likely that the nations of the world will some day turn to us for the cooler assessment of r'ne | elements engaged? I am not thinking so preposterous a thought as that we should sit in judgment upon them. Xo nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation, but that we shall some day 'have to assist in reconstructing the processes of peace. A Mediating >ation. "Our resources are untouched; we are more and more becoming by the force of circumstances the mediating p nation of the world in respect of its finance. We must make up our minds what are the best things to do, and what are tvie best ways to do them. We must put our money, our energy, our enthusiasm, our sympathy into these things; and we must have our judgments prepared and our spirits chastened against tie coming of tnat day. "So that I am not speaking in a selfish spirit when I say that our whole duty for the present, at any rate, is summed up in this motto, 'America first.' Let us think of America before we think of Europe, in order that America may be fit to be (Europe's friend when tine day of tested friendship comes. The test of friendship is not now in sympathy with one side or the other, but getting ready to help both sides wlien the struggle is over. "The basis of neutrality, gentlemen, is not indifference; it is not self-interest. The basis of neutrality is syrn pathy for mankind. It is fairness; it! is good will to the bottom. It is impartiality of spirit and judgment. I wis'h that all of our fellow citizens could realize that. Attempts to (Stir Trouble. "There is in some quarter a dispo-' sition to create distempers in this boov nnlitir rWipn a ro ptpti nttprinp' slanders against the United States as if to excite her. Men are saying tf.:at if we should go to war on either side there would be a divided America? an abominable libel of ignorance.' America is not all of it vocal just now. It is vocal in spots. But I for one have ! * complete and abiding faith in the great silent body of Americans who are not standing up and shouting and expressing their opinions just now, but are waiting to find out and support the duty of America. I am just as sure of their solidity and of their loyalty and of their unanimity, if we act justly, as I am that the history of this country has at eivery crisis and turning point illustrated this great lesson. j <rWe are the mediating nation of the world. I do not mean that we under take not to mind our own business and j to mediate where other people are j Quarreling. I mean the word in a j broader sense. We are compounded of the nations of the world. We mediate tfceir Wood, we mediate their traditions, we mediate their sentiments, their tastes, their passions, we are ourselves compounded of those tnings.1 We are, therefore, able to understand all nations; we are able to understand ' them in the compound, not separately, j as partisans, but unitedly* as knowing and comprehending and embodying them all. It is in that sense that I: mean t&at America is a mediating nation. The opinion of America, the ac-' tion of America is ready to turn and free to turn in any direction. yo Racial Momentum. "Did you ever reflect upon how al most all ot'ier nations, almost every other nation, has through long centuries been headed in one direction? That is not true of the United States. The United States l:as no racial momentum. It has no history back of it whica makes it k-un all its energies and all its ambitions in one particular direction; anc America is pai-uvuia* free in ti:is, that s;ne 'has no hamper-! ing ambitions as a world power. If we have been obliged by circumstances, in the past, to take territory wfcich we otherwise would not have thought of taking, I believe I am right in say-1 ing that we have considered it our duty to administer that territory, not for ourselves, but for the people liv-1 ing in it, and to put this burden upon our consciences, not to think tfaat this ? thing is ours for our use, but to regard ourselves as trustees of the great business for those to whom it does really belong, trustees ready to hand oiver: the cosmic trust at any time, when 1 the business seems to make that possible and feasible. That is what 11 mean by saying we fcave not hamper-' ing ambitions, IWle do not want any-' thing that does not belong to us. Isn't j a nation in that position free to serve j other nations, and isn't a nation like that ready to form some part of the assessing opinion of the world? Ready to Scrap. "My interest in the neutrality of' fho T'rtitoH Static ic nnt thp npftv dp- ' sire to keep out of trouble. I have never looked for it, but I l:ave always t found it. I do not want to walk around 1 trouble. If any man wants a scrap i t'Jat is an interesting scrap and worth! | while, I am his man. I warn him that j ; he is not going to draw me into the i scrap for his advancement, but if he 1 is looking for trouble, that is, the trou j ble men in general, and I can foelp a little, why t'lien I am in for it. But; I am interested in neutrality because ! there is something so much greater to I do than fight, because there is some-: 'thing, there is a distinction waiting for this nation that no nation lias ever yet got. That is the distinction of absolute self-control and self-master}-. I Whom do you admire most among your friends? The irritable man? The man i out ol wnom you can get a rise ?nuout trying? The man who will fight at ti:e drop of the hat, whether he knows what the hat is dropped for or not? h "Don't you admire and don't you fear, if you have to contest with him. the self-mastered man who watches .with pvo nnrl rnmpc in onlv when you have carried tine thing so j far that you must be disposed? That is the man you must respect. That is , the man you know 'has at the bottom much more fundamental and terrible courage than the irritable, fighting : man. The Highest Courage. "Now I coivet for (America this splencttd courage of reserve moral force' and I wanted to point out to you gen- ' tlemen simply this: There is news and news. There is what "is called news from Turtle bay that turns out to be falsehood; at a1^ ra*e in what it is said to signify, and wt':ich, if you could get the nation to believe it true, might disturb our equilibrium and our ' self-possession. We ought not to deal in stuff of that kind. We ought not to permit things .of that sort to use up the electrical energy of the wires, because its energy is malign, its energy is not of the truth, its energy is of mischief. It is possible to sift fhr/Micrh am "I have known some things to go out on the wires as true when there was only one man or one group of men who could 'have told the originators of the report whether it was true or not, and they were not asked whether it was true or not, for fear it might not be true. That sort of report ought not to go out over the wires. "There is generally, if not always, somebody who knows whether that thing is so or not and in these days above all other days, we ought to take rvo 1 n > + a Art f a t a a y<Xi iCLl jjauis LU 1 COU1 I IU mc Ull5 small group of men or to the one man, if there be but one, who knows whether those things are true or not ! The world ought to know the truth, | 'but the world ought not at this period of unstable equilibrium to be disturbed by imaginative combinations of circumstances, or rather by circumstances stated in combination which do not belong in common. Hold the Balance. "For you are folding now, I believe, .% - ' you and gentlemen engaged liKe you, the balance in your hand. This unstable equilibrium rests upon scales that are in your 'bands. For the food~ of opinion, as I began by saying, is the news of the day. I have known i many a man go off at a tangent on information that was not reliable. In-! -?V.r>+ xl/iortr-iKac +Viq mo fit ! uccvi, uiai xuto tiit- iuujui.vj I men. T:e world is held stable by the man who waits for the next day to find out whether the report was true! or not. "We can not afford, therefore, to let | the rumors of irresponsible persons and origin get into the atmosphere of the United States. "We are trustees for what I venture to say is the greatest heritage that any nation eiver had the love of justice and right WV O. ^ "U ,, r-? 1 4 Knvfx' "f 11 r? _ wusucss aiiu uuiiio.il nuci i??, wi luu damentally those are the things to which America is addicted and to which she is devoted. There are groups of selfish men in the United States, to ere are coteries where sin- j ister things are purposed, but the great neart 01 me American peopie is just as sound and true as it ever was. And it is a single heart; it is the heart of America. It is not a l:eart made up | of sections selected out of other countries. "So that what I try to remind my-! self of every day when I am almost overcome by perplexitie's, what I try! to remember is what the people at home are thinking about. I try to put myself in the place of the one who does not know all tJ:e things that I! know and ask myself what he would , like the policy of this country to be. Not the talkative man. not the partisan man, not the man that remembers first that he is a Republican or Democrat, or that his parents were Germans or English, but who rememI bers first that the whole destiny of modern affairs centers largely upon his being (American first of all. "If T permitted myself to be a partisan in this present struggle I would be unworthy to represent you. Tf I permitted myself to forget the people W'Vi r\ y* r\ -n of "nortiCQllC T Wmilrl "Kn TIP *? nw a i c nut pax iiou**o x V*** worthy to represent you. I am not saying that T am worthy to represent you, but! do claim tf'is degree of worthiness, that before everything else I love America." Mr. Wilson, "was introduced by Frank B. Xoyes, president of the Associated Press, and was the only speaker. A World News Service. we are garnered .nere lonay. said Mr. Noves. "the membership of what is, I believe, in scope and importance of activities the greatest cooperative non-profit making organization in the world. The function of the Associated Press is to fnrnis''> its members a service of world news that shall be untainted and without bias of any sort. "To ensure this we have formed an A-rorovn7qfirm flint r?wnor? 'anrl rnn trolled by its members and by them alone, one that is our servent and riot our master. "So we are i^ere to'lav. Democrats and Republicans, Protestants, Catholics and .Tews; conservatives and radicals. wets and drys. different on every subject on which men differ, but all one in demanding that so far as is humanely possible, no trace of partisianship and no hint of propaganda shall be found in our news report. "furnisnea wnn me news we are quite able and more than willing individually to supply the necessary views. "Thus by easy steps I '^ave come to the fact that because of its traditions and its code, and perhaps also because of the never ceasing watchfulness of 900 members, it has come to pass t!vat few people on earth are capable of giving tf:e management of the Associated Press any points on maintaining a strict though benevo lent neutrality on all questions on which we can be neutral and still be what we are?loyal Americans'. Pride in Impartiality. "Wie point with pride to the years and the occasion through which we have balanced on every discoverable fence. "We know, too?none better?that toe genuine neutral, the ! onest neutral, is always the target of every partisan and we find some solace that this fact is now being demonstrated to the world at large. "Today, however, we willingly lower our crest to one who has demonstrated in these agonizing times his mastership in t):e principles of true neutrality, and who, fully realizing t'ae | dreadful consequences of any depart-1 ure from those principles, has nobly borne this terrible burden of respon- j sibilitv in guarding the peace, the wel-' fare and the dignity of our common country. "Our distinguished wuest may surely ' know that in tt';.e perplexities and trials of these days so black for humanity, | he has our thorough, loyal and affec tionate support. "God grant him continuing success in his high aims for the peaceful prog-; ress of the people of the United States. | "At these annual gatherings it is' our custom to offer but one toast. "I ask you to drink to the health of Woodrow Wilson, the president of the United States." The toast was drunk standing. CAROLINA PEOPLE TELL OF STOMACH REMEDY ! Sufferers Find Swift Relief by Use of Remarkable Treatment. Stomach sufferers in the Southeast' and, in fact, all over the country, have found remarkable and efficient re-, suits from the use of Mayr's Wonder- : fill Remed;.. Many have taken t'his remedy and tell today of the benefits they received. Its effects come quickly?the first dose convinces. Here is wfcat two Carolina folks have written: W. R. DAVENPORT,P arker, N. C.?; "For years I have suffered from a dis- ! ease which puzzled doctors. T heard : of your remedy and one bottle save : me relief. Your full treatment has about cured me." J. E. lEtRWIN, :Wlnston-Salem. N. C. ?"I am satisfied through personal use of the powers of your remedy. You , nave savea my me. Mayr's "Wonderful Remedy gives permanent results for stomach, liver and ' intestinal ailments. Eat as much and whatever you like. No more distress after eating, pressure of gas in the ctnmopii onr? sirnnnrl thp "hpart fipf- nriA bottle of your druggist now and try it on an absolute guarantee?if not satisfactory money will be returned. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria.enriches the blood,and builds upthe system. A true tonic. For adults and children. 50e THE HOk Pleasing Evening Reveries Tired Mothers as 1 Circle at Ei Friendship. , How* little some see or feel in f .is word "friendship," yet how much there really is in it. Few there are without friends, few of us 'have the real, faithful friend for which the j heart yearns. Whoever has worldly j prosperity, 'has what the world terms friends. But let the prosperous man lose his wealth and the vast army of i flatterers vanish as snow before a warm sun. Or let one's character be ' charred a trifle, and scores will wait to see the drift of public opinion and will join in with the majority. When one finds a friend to stand every test, t'hen he has something to prize. Among t'.ose most liable to be true friends we name first our mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers. Sometimes we find these real friends among ; strangers, and a sacred tie binds heart ' to heart. The best friendship is always Christlike, and the purest earthly love is enjoyed only by Christians. T e friendship of our Saviour is never failing, and can be depended upon. It is t/he only friendship we are absolutely sure of having for the asking, and 'by asking it, it is ours for all eternity. I I Home Happiness. Home pleasures and happiness ; should be considered foremost of all. : Xo effort should be spared in trying to make the home the dearest and most attractive place on earth for each one of its inmates. It ougf:t not to be regarded simply as a place to eat and drink, but a place of refuge, where we can return at any time from the trials and perplexities of the outside world, and meet with lo'ving races beaming with joy and happiness. No mansion where discord reigns is equal in attraction to the cottage where love : is master. Each member of the family should unite in tr.e efforts to make home pleasant and enjoyable; one discontented and irritable member destroys the comfort of a whole family, just as a simple fault in painting spoils the whole picture; therefore we must endeavor to make ourselves pleasant and agreeable at all times for this reason, and fori the upbuilding of our own characters. A christian resignation and submission to all things is essential to true and real happiness, enabling us to be prepared for any fate that may befall us, strengthening both mind and body thereby. Loving words and kind deeds must be our safeguard at all times in making home pleasant, for wLere love is master, happinesses inevitable. How unfortunate, indeed, are those persons, the peace of whose homes has succombed to the fashion and frivolities of the age regardless of circumstances. * * * A vain woman is sometimes mistaken when she t):inks the whole world sees what she sees in her mirror. * * * Wliat has a greater influence over man than a faithful, loving wife? And on the other hand, wl:.ere is he, who has a|faithful helpmate to surround with 'b?Tly influences, that is so barren of feeling would not be as equally a cheerful and loving husband? * * * Good deeds, the loveliest flowers of all, may blossom when the snow hides the ground and the frost clouds the pane. * * Some persons seem to think laugh ing a smrui TaDii; or a very immvucsi one. Never a beam of cheerfulness brigntens their cadaverous countenances, and the exhaling influences of such persons cast a gloom of profound sadness o-ver tfteir surroundings. * * The keynote in the management of children is: Don't overmanage them. Just let them alone and don't keep t'liem in a worry abont*trifling things. * * * Careful, painstaking work sometimes, seems pretty tough to you, girls, but before you have passed half way through life you will tfcank moth er for having required it of you. * * Cleanliness is better than all disinfectants known to science. * * The person who never makes a mistake never makes anything. * * * There is no condition of life so low but one may have hopes, and none so high but may fcave fears. * * There are many hearts that would be greatly benefitted and cheered by more praise than they get in mis nie. * To feed the mind on evil thoughts is an indulgence "wl-ich is sure to de IE CIRCLE i a n i. _ J i _ > f\ LOiumn l^eaicaieu 10 fhey Join the Home fening Tide. j i | form the character and produce vile1 ness in life. * * * I Where there is love and no selfish- I ness who shall say that marriage is a ! failure. * * Parents should not meddle with' other people's children, or forget tLat i children should be taught the manly j i . art of self-reliance. i "Woman Suffrage Coming. Columbia Record. Congressman Lever, of this district, is convinced beyond doubt that women will be voters and fellow citizens1 within a very few years, according to o cnoflr.li mcif-lo hv him s>f !?'imff-r liiUUV- UJ ? ^ ^ vt aa* a ^4qb? j The State Department is advising ; people not to go to Europe for recre-! ation, but to the average mind it would ! appear foolish enough to need such ad- j ; vice wouldn't have sufficient gumption j to take it when given.?Norfolk Vir- ! ginian. 1 Mil 11 ! Instant Plate Guaranteed Change brass to silver. Forpolishin and cleaning Prices 50c < | Mayes' 1 j Variety The House of a T I VERY I r Lxtursiu Southern L m / lv Colui ACC01 United Confede Reur nr CAI ITU \jr jvuiu i The Southern Railway trin tirl^pf-s tn Cnlnmhia. i j casion. Tickets on sale . for trains scheduled to reac April 23rd, with final limit point prior to midnight Ap lowing fares will apply: $1.75; Allendale $1.80; Aj | $1.55; Barnwell $1.50; Bla1 $2.85; Gaffney $2.60; Gree $1.95; Newberry $1.10; Uni< Chester $1.55; Yorkville 3 fares from other points. For further informatio or address L. D. ROBINSON, C. P. & Columbia, S. C. I S I i NOTICE OF ELECTION. J Fursuant to ihe authority of an act fl of the General Assembly of tl:e Sratc? ~ f r'oi'/i'inn i./.lofinfr +/% Vn'l'h.l'rv vy* oviit . \ n i \j i * uci i ciai:ii5 IU ^ *? ^ v * * j School District, passed at the last ses-? sion thereof, and resolutions of t^-^H Trustees of Newberry School District,? passed in pusuance of said act, an elec-? tion will be held at the Council Chan* ber in the town of Newberry on tfl 13tii day of May, 1915, betweeu tfl ?C O fy\rnr> A/\n -uun ui o v; iu tuc ivicuvuu 4 o'clock in the afternoon for the pose of voting upon the questiofl continuing the one mill levy, hef| fore levied for the purpose of re? and improvements to buildings, addition to the general fund of th^ district. Those voting for the continuance of said levy shall cast a ballot whereon sfrall be written "For confinnino' thp one mill levy." Those op 0 posed, a ballot thereon is written . "Against continuing the one mill le'.y.'* The qualified electors of said district are alone to vote at said election. Said election will be conducted by J. M. Bowers, A. C. Welch, H. L. Speers. who have been appointed managers to conduct the same. W. A. McSwafn, W. G. Mayes, L. W. Floyd. L. G. Eskridge, I J. Y. Jones. I . Hi I pure silver, a and copper m g piatea ware ^ silver. &$1.00 rn" am -innlf A Store | housand Things A m LOW1 n Kates D.:l V1TAVT Si ftduway 1 Tibia 1 [JNT rate Veterans | lion 1 CAROLINA I r will sell very low round account of the above oc:\pril 21st and 22nd, and :h Columbia before noon to reach original starting ril 26th, 1915. The folAbbeville $2.25; Aiken CO Qfi* RcimVicrfr j U.CU 31/11. ?UU j i?^ ckville $1.25; Charleston nville $2.50; Greenwood Dn $1.60; Rock Hill $1.95; 1 >2.25; proportionately low n, apply to local Agents T. A., ? !. H. McLEAN, D. P. A., I Columbia, S. C. I