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<t> 3 ^ LITTLE WILLIE'S ? > COMPOSITIONS. ? ^ By Judson W. Chapmaa. * MATCHES. ^ <8 Matches are small sticks of wooc designed to enable the user to ob tain are readily by scratching it aiu when fire is not wanted, to be used as toothpicks. There are countless mil lions of matches, both struck and un struck, in this country today and the? are easily obtainable. Yet if there is a living man who has never aske<! Tor a match a few hundred times let him arise that we may all view this eighth wonder of the world. Ir olden days, the Indians had to foo; around with a piece of flint and know it a while before they could get fire or even a light. Now a small piece o wood with a little combustible mate rial on its tip will start something just as bad as all the flint in the world could ever start. One matcfc can stop something that nobody ca^ 4 stop. There are many cigar lighters on the market today in beautiful met al .cases but the plain, common match is about the best cigar lighter ?n the world. Same way witn a uau ?it's awfully common but it makes a dandy coathanger. Saftey matches .were put on the market in 1855, thej being the kind that can only be struck when you have t.he box witti you. A man on a desert isle witn?y car load of cigars and a car load of safety matches?but no boxes?would be about as bad off as the fellow whc was shipwrecked on a desert isle with only one magazine and all the i stories continued. In Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and Germany, the match-making industry has assumed enormous proportions; in sunny France, the government has a mono poly of it; and in our own beautiful land the industry -is ^practically con trolled by a single corporation, the Diamond Match company. It is es timated by folks inr a position to know that 3,000,000 boxes of matches are used in this country each day and it is safe to say that one million men ask for matches during the same pe riod of time. Zimmerman-Burnett. The State, 23rd. News of the marriage of a Columbia coulpe in Greenville Wednesday will be interesting to their friends here. On Wednesday afternoon Miss Marie Zimmerman became the bride of Richard Burnett of the Burnett Whetsell drug stores of tLis city. Miss Zimmerman was visiting Dr. and Mrs. Lawton Lipscomb and the marriage was solemnized at their home at 4 o'clock, the bride and bridegroom leaving immediately for the moun tains. They will return to Columbia about July 1 and the bride will be welcomed by her girl friends with a series of parties now being planned for her. A graduate of Columbia college ani o Tennis* nf exceDtional talent, the bride is aiso the State editor of Ep worth Era, the organ of the EpwortD league. Mr. Burnett is well known in Columbia both socially and as a successful druggist OMtuarj. James Edward Monts was born May 27, 1873, and died June 12, 1917, in the Columbia hospital at the age oi 44 years and 23 days. Two weeks pre vious to his death he was suddenly stricken with a fatal disability whicE was accompanied with intense pain. in miancy ne was lutruuuccu mw the Church of Jesus Christ by Holy Baptism, and later in life he assum ed those vows and became a commu nicant member of Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church. He was married to Ml?s Mattie Uendrix 19 years ago, whc with his father and mother, two sis ters and one brother, still survives him. The funeral services were con ducted in the presence of a large concourse of people in his residence in T.it+ip Mountain. S. C.. by his pas tor, assisted by Revs. J. J. Long an^ J. C. Wessinger, and interment wa? made in the Little Mountain cemetery * We ''sorrow not, even as others whicr have no hope." J. B. HARMAN, Pastor. Bishop Kikro Goes Abroad. Columbia, June 12.?Bishop John C Kilgo of Charlotte, who yesterday de livered the baccalaureate sermon tc the graduating class of the Universi ty of South Carolina, leaves nexl month tor a trip 10 ivorea, ^.xnna am, Japan. The Methodist church sends a bishop out each year. One Way to Retrench "Look here, Lucy," said her husband -more in sorrow than in anger, "onh last month I paid a milliner's bill ol $59; and here, after oil your promises to economize, is another one for $47.' "Well, dear," she retorted in an injured ton. doesn't that prove thai I'm beginning to spend less?"?The Delineator. Subscribe to The Herald and News. THE DIFFERENCE. >! ? > I Charleston American. >1 We are indebted to a gentleman A signing himself "John Richardson" j to ra letter which we publish else j where. It is called by the author an , I -open letter to Colie," and is in the I main a remonstrance v.ith Blease be .1 cause he opposes the highhanded : methods of Governor Manning in Hie : conscription machinery. Incident I ' lv, Mr. Richardson is afraid "Brother j Grace is leading you (Blease) into j treacherous paths." "Brother Grace" has held executive office' himself. He has never held as strongly as Governor Blease to the policy of "sticking to one's friends." Time and again he tried to swerve Blease from it. but without success. That was simply Blease's fixed rule of politics. tj Whatever differences or oprnion, - j however, may exist as to the propri ; | ety of "sticking to one's friends" in i i the administration of a public trust, l and putting aside the fact that Man i ning was elected 011 a platform that ; | expressly denounced it, even the most superficial thinker will discern the i; difference between th?* appointment to a purely routine office and the set [ ting up of a machine which is to i! handle nothing less than the question ; j of life or death. ^ i r j Let us admit that Governor Man- j ! j ning was right in trying to force his i j personal friend Lyon upon Peeples as l assistant attorney general. Of course : | we do not admit it, except for the [! sake of argument. For Dominick had >:held the office with eminent satisfac i; tion, as Peeples' two re-elections -would > ; indicate. But let us say that Man-j ? j ning was right in practically ordering > i Peeples to put Dominick out and Lyon! [j (or was it Christie Benet?) in. j j Let us suppose also ne was right j j in defying the law in refusing to com- 1 mission the namesake of the 'writer: | of our letter?Richardson. Also that! ! j in every one of his rankly partisan and factional appointments to office ' high and low he was right?though! ' utterly -contrary to his platform. AH; : those things were more or less harm-; l less.' His pet attorney general could! only at worst give him the "benefit", of his limited knowledge of the law. j His private game warden could only; succeed^at worst in making game ofi the job i But the conscription machinery, un i | der which young men are to be -drag-; j ged from their families and sent to I the front, is the awful machinery of life and death. No man of proper sensibilities should seek to control it Congress wisely foresaw that it would be a solemn duty rather to be' j shunned than sought, and so fixed automatically aow it wumu .uc au ministered, thus imposing upon cer tain public officers, already in exist ence, its mere execution. In every ! state but South Carolina, the chief ! executives, following the instincts of nature and humanity, gladly pre ferred to let the machinery of death alone, happy in the thought that tlie( young men who died in France would j be the victims of blind fate, drawn i without factional or personal dis-| crimination, for the field of duty. It| n-o? /vni,r \fflnriinp' who conceived it i to be his priVilege to claim the dis tinction for South Carolina among the sisterhood of states that her boys | who go to the ranks of death shall j he picked by -factional machinery. | How natural, therefore, was it for I Blease at this juncture to for once I depart from his own policy and to j Insist mat as tne jpeueiiu guvciumcui I itself had left itt o "blind chance. ( Manning must not be allowed to leave r it to his friends. For Blease is at the head of the Reform Party, number i ing more than half the white people [ | of the state. Should that great body i s\p niwiivs nreDonderantly a J j VJ. V1I.UIIU1VI ? j ? , A - } iajority In tbd nrilitia, and always, therefore, manifestly willing to serve ( the state or nation ? should it be j shuffled by Manning'3 chicane out l of whatever was the fair burden of i k dtizenshipan d ineidently branded as the only b?d^ of citizens in this , whole nation un orthy of confidence? ( If "John Richardson" is really a Re former, he should be ashamed of his ' party if Manning's estimate of it is j correct. I AN OPEH LITTER TG EX-GOT. BLEASE Blackrille, S. C., June 21, 1917. Colej L. Blease, Esq., Chairman, Co lumbia, S. C. Dear Sir: I am a "Reformer." You have been our "standard-bearer," but I must say I am greatly surprised at your protesting Governor Manning's appointments lor selective committee. When you were governor of South Carolina your "slogan" was "none need apply for office or appointment except he be a Bleaseite." You stated time and again on stump and in papers that "only Bleaseites would be recog nized" and "damn" those who oppos ed you. Now the shoe is on the other foot i THOSE AWFUL i CRAMPS! Suggestions that may save Much Suffering I suffered witn lernoje cram^). j., would have to stay in bed several days j every month. Ij tried all kinds of! remedies and was I trpntpH hv doctors. I but my trouble con tinued until one day I read about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound and what it had done for others. I tried it and now I am never troubled with cramps and feel like a different woman. I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound too hierhlv and I am recommend mg it to my friends who suffer as I did.'' j ?Mrs. George R. Naylor, Box 72, j Marysville, Pa. Young womert who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, neadache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion should ; take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable i Compound. Thousands have been re store to health by this root and herb j , remedy. I Write for free and helpful advice to ; i Lydia E. Pink'nam Medicine Co. (con- j i fidential), Lynn, Mass. Only women i open and read such letters. i and you are raising hell because Gov-' ernor Manning has appointed his friends and only a few Bleaseites.! ,, * i.e..iK. " li "smaii iavors uiautiiuiiu icicivcu. a, i am ashamed of you, "Coley." I am l with you, and for God's sake be a i man. Don't whine?you can't always I be the "boss." I am afraid Brother, ! Grace is leading you into treacherous [paths. We made the fight?we lost? so take your licking like a man and 1 wait till you "catch "em" right, f Yours, JOHN RICHARDSON, Old-Time Blea:;eif.e. FIGHTING FLARES UP ACTIVELY OX ALL FRONTS \ Germans Pound Away Incessantly at French in the West With Increas ing Fury?Russians Become More Ajtive. London, June 22.?The German crown prince continued "picking on"i the French during the last 24 hours. He had little success, however. The British executed a successful raid on the German lines near Neuve Chap-1 elle and Armentieres last nigni. With ever incerasing fury the Teu ton big guns are battering the French lines around Vauxaillon, southwest or Laon, where they succeeded in pene trating the Poilus' advanced positions two days ago. Further east, around Filain-, and the north of BTaye-En Laonnois, the crown prince's heavy ar tillery likewise tuned up for big ac tion. Infantry Attack. ^ Meanwhile lie thought the time ripe for an infantry assout in the Cham pagne near the blood-soaked Teuton height. So powerful was the initial onrush of the field gray troops that the French first line defenders could not stand the brunt. They yielded on a front of' 400 meters. The Ger- j mans 'began to consolidate their i gains. Then came a terrific French ; "come back." It lifted the Teuton force bodily out of the French trenches and j hurled them back over the parapets' ! into Xo Man's Land. There the Ger-j I mans turned again. But by this time j the Poilas had come back in force to stay. Steel clased with steel in j j a violent local engagement. "We re-: ; gained all our posts," is the way tiie | the Paris office described the result.! i South of La Fere the Frencn j | snatched some prisoners out of the Teuton first line. . j V.Anf ' I llAiiuji nvnu ! Both Rome and Vienna claim sue-; cesses today on the Austro-Italian' front The Italian war office an nounced the capture by storm of the summit of Hill 2668 on Lagazuoi Pic-', colo, in the Dolmites, and the repulse of Austrian attacks on the Julian front. iVienna asserted that since ! June 14, 16 officers and 650 men were | taken prisoners in repulses of Italian ! attacks. I Russia Active. j While the German authorities are, | setting premiums on early deliveries ; of Rumanian grain, signs are flaring j up with growing frequency on the ; eastern front of a revival of the Russian offensive spirit. The Vien-' j na war office reported today: ! "In some sectors of the Galician and1 ! Volhvnian fronts the neemy artillery j activity mcreaseu, utiivy ^una w-vt< ! erating. Aerial activity was also live lier." Meanwhile Petrograd dispatches tell of mocking leaflets scattered in the Russian lines near Smorgon below Dwinsk by German airplanes. "Thanks for tho long rest during which fraternization enabled us to rriinsfor troops to the western front t.. hold up the attack of the English and French," was the message of the Teuton fliers. "Now enough are transferred; wg are going to fisrht and. will fire on tra*ernizers." W1LS0\ ADJUSTS Slil? now T>ividcs Authority of Denman and Goo thals in Hope Tfcat Work Will Resin at Once, Washington. June 22.?President >v'ilson today settled the Goethals beninan controversy in the shippin? hoa~d by a division of power. To General Goethals will be glv cn complete authority to build steel ships and to Mr. Dennian control of the construction of the wooden fleet according to the general understands ing here tonight. Immediate friends of both sides to the controversy went scouring in all! directions to bring pressure to bear j to influence the president to recon-j sider. This is what happened: Chairman Denman. of the shipping board and also president of the emer gency fleet corporation, endeavored vainly to see the president. Vice Chairman Theodore Brent, generally recognized as Denman's closest friend on the shipping board, hurried to New York to see Colonel House. Colonel House is the presi dent's most trusted adviser and it was hoped to win him to the Den man view of the case. >o Statement General Goethals, general manager of the emergency fleet corporation. who has opposed Chairman Denman'a wooden ship plan, went to the White House. He was with the president for more than an hour. When he came out he declined to talk but promised that he would make pub lie a statement soon covering an ne wished to say. President Wilson's decision natural ly will be made at the time that the4 president delegates the power con ferred on him by congress to spend S7o0.000.000 for building ships. A proclamation conveying this power was exepcted today but did not mate rialize. 0 With the decision dividing author ity to build ships will also come the question of how much shall be ap "propnaieu iui wuuucu ouiyg uuu much for steel ships. No one here would venture to guess how this al lotment would be made, though it is generally believed that the major por tion will be devoted to steel ships which can be used after the war for out merchant marine. JWl !3(IU9IICUa Neither General Goethals nor Chair man Denman is satisfied with the pro /* posed compromise by which the pres ident intends to settle their quarrel. General Goethals feels that having taken the stand _?tiat the wooden ship is impractical to build, the action of the president will tend to discredit him before tue country, tie ie?is mai having taken his present position at a great personal sacrifice with the un dersanding that he would not be In terfered with, to deprive him of part of his power now would do him no credit. The friends of the shipping board, on the other hand, point to Chairman Denman's stand on the steel question as a reason why he should be given complete authority on shipping ques tions. They say that by his present stand he has saved the government o a A AAA AJ"l A over iiu,uuu,uw. ^Chairman Denman said today that he concurs with Secretary Daniels in the latter's suggestion that tie fed eral trade commission "or some other authorized body" should investigate the steel production of the country and fix a basic price. HOLIDAY TO YIEW TREES. At Koganei, near the Japanese cap ital Tokio, there is gTowing a three mile avenue of cherry trees, many of them seventy-five feet high and as much as four feet in diameter, which is maintained without consideration far the fruit. The beauty or tms ave nue is so great that when it blooms in the early spring, the Emperor ~-op]m*Tns a general holiday for Tokio that all may have opportunity to see this display of blossoms. The particular cherry which has thus been dignified by the creation of a movable national hiloday in its hon or is known in the United States as the -Sargent cherry. This cherry not only grows to be a great and beau tiful tree. Dut it provraes lub on which the wonderful named garden varieties of cherries for which Japan is famous, are budded. Several years ago Pro. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, sent the great nlant explorer, R. H. Wilson, to Japan to discover means for providing Amer ican gardens with t.he exquisite cherry "beauty for which Japan is famous. Mr. Wilson brought, into the country seventy named sard^n varieties. It is not impossible that there may result the development in America of a cherry as beautiful as the Tedo cherry, whiqh is used on the streets hisrrf* ?>? .Ffi rt**i OA "TTci S*.?Q?lZ: i i ; and in the parks and cemeteries o? j Tokio. i A visit to the Arnold Adboretum. the one great tree garden of America, Trill inform onyone of the cherry love liness which is thus being placed at the disposal of the United States through this institution. The Arnold Arboretum is a part of Harvard Uni extraordinary contract with the city of Boston, which assures its continu ance for at least 1.000 years. Can Yonr Vegetable York News. The speculators are making 100 per cent, profit on corn, peas and to matoes which have been canned, and for which the public until re cently has been paying double prices. Peas have retailed at 25c. a can and tomatoes and corn, which formerly sold for 12 1-2 to 15c. a can, now; bring from 20c. to 25c. If our people have not canjiiBg outfits they ought Third Annua of ! Baptist Seaside Assembly Low Roud Trip Fares will b< I - II T>1 > / tl * to Wilmington trom all point Carolina, Augusta, Ga, No Danville, Va. Children Half Fare Tickets w 29; and JULY 2, 3, and 4. | original starting point until a 110,1917. For fare, schedul information, call on Ticket A i 7 Atlantic C Tko ^fanrlar/1 Rai r | 01 io,um 1 without a punctu: tional, but the ore owners who have subs treacherous and expe: acrents for ESSEN KAY, we i service that positively assm ES3ENKAY absolutel; slow lealcs?doubles .the li relieves your mind of all i from the constant drawback: you nothing to investigate. A Call Write for tree bcoi T ESSEN H-N 3*8 Excursion Fares ^ way System fron Lake Junaluska n r Account Chautauqua Period ers' Conference, Board of Mis< on sale July 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18 and 19, 1 sale. n it fil jkock nm,. Account Winthrop College J June 18, 19, 22, July 4, 5, 6, Nashville, T Account ?eabody College Si Jane n, 12, 13, 14, 21, zzy ju days from date of sale. Black Mountain $5 Account Various Religious 1 31, June 1, n, 12, 13, 21, 22, 27, 30, August 1, 6. 10, 14, 17 of sale. Athens, < Account Summer School Uj 30, July i, 2, 3, 9, io, i6, 17, from date of sale. Proportianately n points. Call on local age tion or a ddress S. H. Mc! S. C. :o ial:e immediate steps to get them and can as many peas, beans, cotn, tom;itoes and other garden truck aa it is possible to do. The wheat cro^ | is oi.ort. We are only just enterimg : the great world war and the price of food next fall and winter is all uncer tain. If the people will save every ! thing from their gardens by canning it and preserve their fruit and blaek I en ies it will be a tremendous hel> I to them next winter. : I i | Safety First A boy was visiting another boy. and I as they were going to bed the little Tiost knelt to say his prayers. "I never say my prayers when T am away from home,'* said the visitor. "That's all right." said the older boy. "You better say them here; this is a folding bed."?American Bay. THE HERALD AND NEWS ONH YEAR FOR ONLY $1.50. .1 \^U1IVC11UII11 the r Wrightsville Beach, N. C. i made for the above occasion s in North Carolina, South . rfolk, Suffolk, Boykins and ill be sold JUNE 26, 27, and Limited returning to reach nrl inrlnrlincrmiflniffht of Jtliv les, tickets and any further ^ent of the loast Line Iroad of the South e Ran 15,000 in ESSENKAY es ? No "Blowouts" ) miles from one set of casings re or "blowout"! This is not excep linary experience of thousands of car tituted ESSENKAY Tire Filler for tfce asive inner air tubes. As exclusive nstall it in your tires and give yon personal *es 70a freedom from tire troubles of any kind. j prevents punctures, "blowouts" or re or your casings?cuts ?xpense in nau? wtsrry?makes motoring a rtal pleasure free 3 of the old-style inner air t*Vbe way. It costs Do it today / \ WUI Convince Yoal Fr\ . _ uVaa :let? Xpiain!ng our ien uny* * ?=*. rial Proposition. KAY PRODUCTS CO. W. Grand Avenne, Chicago, 111. /ia Southern Rail i Newberry, S. C. and Waynesville, $5.45 1 Snnrl av School Board. Work >ions, Epworth League, tickets 23, 24, 25, August 2, 3, 5, limited 17 days from date of Q r |J? Summer School, tickets oa sale final limit August 6, 1917. an y / ufiv/v jmraer Schcx>l, tickets [on sale ly 20, 21, 26. final limit ,15 Ridgecrest, N. C. .10 i ?soc**iKlie>c on Sftlf* JLOO^UiUiiWj VIVU.VW/ v? ? ^ 27, 28, Jtilv 5, 6, 13, 19, 20, ,, final limit 17 days from date Ga. $3.95 diversity, tickets on sale June 30, with final limit 15 days educed fares, from other ;nts for further informa LEAN, D. P. A., Columbia,