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* V V? im itwi0 m i?. Eitered at the Postoffice at **rry, S. Cn as 2nd class matter. c? 1 E. H. AU1L, EDITOR. Tuesday, August 20, 1918. MY VACATION, In these strenuous times the country editor has very little time for a vacation, and if he should get one it is generally more like work than anything else, and yet I used to hear it said of my Grandfather Aull who "was one of the finest carpenters o*' his day, so I am have been told by those who are older and either knew him or were near enough that tradition was equal to knowledge, that he used to tell his workmen that they j would take a rest, and he would suggest that they go from some light work to the pulling of a cross cut saw, or swinging a broad axe. I reckon there are still some people who know what a cross cut saw or a brog,d axe is. His idea was that a change was rest, even if the chaTige was from lighter to heavier work. And when you stop to think about it tnere is a j great deal of philosophy and truth in the statement, as you will find in all of the sayings of the people of his day. They were plain and ^mple people, but kijew the right from the wrong and'da red to do .the right. I do not mean by this that the va- ~ cation I had planned to take was th harder work, but the difficulties and go trials that beset the path to ^ the vacation seemed to me to make ? i of it almost impossible for me to do what I intended and had planned, but it is an all right or it would not be that way. Jsa f ?o? j tic As stated some time ago I had fully ; H< determined to carry out this summer j what I had planned for many years, j j and what I had promised, namely, to take off a whole week and spend | ^ it with the^ld folk at home, and give ;ic( myself wholly up to their pleasure ja and go over again the scenes of other !co ' ' Po days and visit some of the people who i liv may be left that I knew when I was i"' i ds. a boy at the old homestead. But alas j and alack, the best laid plans of men !60 and mice aft gang aglee, and that I ou seems to be the way with mine. The j ch first part of the program was to get j ^1 my two young American boys and \ar< ' SGI their mother at the home and then I i th, was to steal away and spend the j ch greater part of the time for at least I two weeks with them. j fn _o_ 'pi An Well, in the first place the only way ' to carry out the plan successfully it was necessary that I should have old - - * A-:? v..,+ ??> +V>??+ T was Ill in gooa 117211. UUL lix tuat x ?* ur sorely disappointed, and she is still ^ in the hospital, and we are now in the n ragged end of the third week, in fact ^ cthe third week is gone, and here I am still,.and 111 will not run. Well, i 1 the boys and their mother are still there and seem to be satisfied and se growing fat on the good things that you will find in the country. And X so may yet be able to get off for a day or two, but the duties of a country i?< newspaper man in this day of stress w is what President Wilson says is be- ar fore the American people in this great & world war, it is a task and the task m is never done. It is worse than what cc they used to tell us about .a woman's P* work. A man may work from sun rc to sun but a country newspaper man's work is never done. It is just ons P1 thing after another and they come so n( fast that you have no time to get a long breath jT ?o? *K But r have managed to spend two PJ Sundays over there. The second was the regular preaching day at Trinity, ^ the church of the old folk and also k] ' the church of the childhood of my a mother, as the old home stood near by and the old house still stands rhert, th just like it stood more than 75 years ; >r< ago, though the property has passed ai out of the family. But I did not have . Tf" Ill, and so I sent for my Drotner, " B?chman, who lives near by and told him that I wanted him to take us down | to preaching, and he readily consented, c] in fact he couldn't refuse if he had e desired, and I don't think he desired. : u So he hooked up his Chevrolet and ti his son, L B., Jr., and his wife and a my father and mother went in it, and' ^ he and I in his rural mail Ford, and it we made the trip fine and got there in' d; time for the preaching, which, accord- n in?: to the custom in these country' a churches, did not begin until 12:00 n o'clock. There was a large congrega. ; tinn -nresent is alwavs the case at: P "big meeting" in August. It was hot, \ p hut I got a seat and the preacher, the j a Rev. Geo. S. Bearden, preached a very ft fine sermon. It was plain and practi- ; v cal and the illustrations were apt and t to the point and the delivery good. In j h fact I was frank enough to tell Mr. j ^ Bearden that really I did not know r i MIMNAUGH K7 - 1M6W Mimnaugh two weeks bi been brought separate skir New Fall Millinery 175 of the most farm This is what we have t< They are designers sa mediirn hats and large med, v ^signed and b!c ceivat, ..iodeI. SwPAnincr Rpffarfi k/IT VV|/IU^ livuuvvi All mid-summer wh half price. No Matt' > * . i at he could preach so well. And the od part about it is that the people of e Trinity congregation are evry fond Lim, and he is doing a good work aong them. Several of the members id that they had a large congrega)n every time Mr. Bearden peached. * also serves the church at Saluda. iere were not many present in this roe congregation who were there in e old days when I attended the servi at this place. A few years make great change in the citizens of any mmunity. There was Mrs. Mattie rson among the women, who now es at iSaluda, but who in the other ys lived close by Trinity, and her n, Tom Carson, who is a prospefs farmer who still lives near the urch, aifd James Dyer, and Andrew srts, but many faces that I knew 3 there no more. There were two Vices and dinner on the ground and >y had plenty good things to eat, icken pie and baked chicken and ^ ^ nrirl Virkw* QTlf? cu v^u*v/iv^n auu wuuu j ulclull ****** is and custards and cake galore, id the good people served me beauully and I enjoyed the dinner. On 9 way down we stopped at the home Mr. Tom Pitts and I had the please of shaking hands with him and 3 good wife who was before her irriage Miss Long and a descendant good Newbery people. We did not remain for the afternoon rvice as I had to get the train hack .Newberry that evening, and it is me 12 or more miles to the church Dm home, and the afternoon serv5 did not begin until nearly 4 o'clock e drove another road on the returc ound by the home place of the lat iptain J. H. Brooks, and this gavt e an opportunity to see more of tht luntry. Many changes have taker ace and new people live along th< on/4 +Vio pniinfrtr all lnnl'c r? l f\ 'UU auu VV/UillX Jf Mli IVVikO U1JL rent. But the crops are fine and th( ospect for a good corn crop was jver better, and there is good cottox Saiuda and Greenwood counties he Stevens now live along where th< ings once* lived and everything look; rosperous. I mention the Stevens >cause they are the same that one* ved at Chappells, Mack Stevens an< is hoys. The one who died abou yenr ago had a fine country hom< id it does seem a strange working o: ie divine providence that one s< :>ung and so well fixed to enjoy lif< id make others happy should hi iken, but it has always been so ant ill continue to the end. We also drove by Good Hope Baptis [lurch, one of the old churches of oli dgefield now Saluda, and where the. sed to have sure enough congrega ons. I remember seeing there a] 11 day baptizing in the creek har y when the "big meeting:" closed, an t'UUJi tlit? pi'CiltHCX" pi a.1 ay to perform the rite on the grea umber who had joined the churcl nd the pool was in the creek, oticed that they were building frge two story school building alon lose to this church. It had the ar earance of being large enough fo high school and will be a handsom i iMin~ when completed. That i >*hat I HKe to see in ine counirv uu ricts. And in the days gone the ad the children in this section t eep a big school running, and T sut iose the same thing is true in thj rs n< ?*'fTfsl C,e has returned fr< lying the largest : to Newberry. te. waists and mi Now on Display >us hats in America. ^?ne cc .v i and ni j orrer you this week. ? , i c it i ? broadci mples. bmali hats, c i i , rrom. 3>. sailor shapes, trim- . 7 1 j r prised >cked in every con- , splendi nr. 11* XH fi on in Millinery h? ite hats reduced to of silk t\ bought s er What You Ir i ! day. Over at Trinity there were a lot ? t of children. It was hot and we made a sto? or two to get water and at one place I 1 asked a young America h if the water was good, and he replied that he reckoned it was all right, that his dad ! had a few days before put a lot of ! salt in the well to kill the germs, and I tried it and the water still had the taste of salt. Then we stopped at ! Mr. Burnett's, known as Mays Cross Roads, and he has a fine place and ' j s*ood wat er, but the place is no longer ; owned by 'Mays and there are none of j the name around about. But Butlers j and Burnetts are plentiful, and good people tney are., ; I went up oil Saturday with Fred Dominick expecting to stop at home, but we were under the impression that we could not cross at the railroad : i bridge out from Chappells and so we , I went up via Island Ford, and the road, \ i or what is supposed to be a road, from Vaughnville to the river is so bad that we were delayed, and as he baa an appointment at Greenwood at 1 o'clock we drove right on to Greenwogd. Something should be done for the road from iV'aughnville to the river.! and then something on the Greenwood , side is also needed. I can not recom. j mend the split log drag to this road. : because I am afraid it is beyond the reach of such treatment. By this arrangement I attended the , campaign meeting at Greenwood in , the afternoon when 'Blease and Domi. nick spoke, though I did not hear all of the speeches. Blease was speaking [ when we arrived. I would estimate ?; the attendance at this meeting at from ? 1/00 to 1500 and I am generally an ; under-estimater. It was a Blease t | c-owd evidently. .! One can never tell what he is going ? j to do in these *times. I had no idea 3 j in the world of going to Abbeville, but i! as Fred Dominick was going to bring . j me back home in the evening and I 3 ! had an opportunity to go to Abbeville 5 i I drove over. Blease spoke there in a J the afternoon at 4 o'clock. I did not 3 ! go for the meeting, but just wanted to i I go to Abbeville. The meeting was t i held in the large and handsome opera i j house and I did not go further than f ! the door. I just wanted to see for my ) j self how many people were there s The house was filled and I am told 3 thnt it seats about 1200. It was an 1 1 enthusiastic meeting. 1 I lived in Abbeville once for a year t : One of the happiest years of my life, j : and I always like to go there. Many y changes have taken place since those " ? -rwr I days. very iew peupie mcic uu? n I whom I know, hut I always like to 3 : go there. I visited both newspaper ? | offices but the editors were out and I [1 ' failed to see them. Each has a young + | woman linotype operator and they are , ! good ones. In one office the young I j ! lady said she was doing all the work a 1 now in all departments. What a great g ; boon that publisher has, he does not i_ ! realize or appreciate, I am afraide There was another meeting at ~ . T %? s ureenwooa mat evening ana as ! Domini^k was scheduled to speak at v i if. T also attended it at the mills. Mr. o 1 Kinase also sooke. 1 should say there )- were some 5-00 to 600 present at this is j meeting, making between 3.000 and t 3w Arrivals Dai] Si >m New York w stocks for "spol Every express is illinery. New Fail Suits hundred new fall suits just un] 3W on display. Material: loth and serges. The prices 19.75 to $50.00. You will c at the dainty style Hncs ai d quality of materials. New Fall Silks Are I ive just opened up the largest si iat has ever been brought to Ne^ ;ix months ago before the big adv< itenci Buying, 1 4,000 people who heard 'Blease speak that afternoon. I am simply giving ! these figures because I have seen other statements of the number present and nine of them .iirr e. I think my estimates are very conservative. Mr. Dorninick tr >" * d.r.vn by lion-.? that night and let me out about 10 o'clock and he came on to Newberry iMr. Blease came with him and J. W. Henderson was also along having gone up with us in the ornin^. It was p nice r'n pv-^n if a little strenuousIf Dominick does not beat Aiken two to one in this grand old district then I am badly informed as to the sentiment of the district where I have not been, but in all this secion of which I am writing there is little doubt of it. And Blease is going some also I did not talk politics, but I looked and listened. People would not go. to . hear Blease or any-one else speak just as a matter cf idle curiosity, and tne , people at the two meetings in the af- 1 ternoon were sturdy farmers from Greenwood and Abbeville counties who are not talking much or making demonstration but who are going to .vote when voting time comes, and you may put 'that in your pipe and smoke it. ? ? ' J nr: I do nor. Deneve rresiuem wusuus letter will have any other effect than to make the people the more deter, mined to vote as free American citizens, and as they 'believe they have the right to do, for whom they please. .That is the foundation principle on which our very government rests. When you take that right away from them and the right to judge the fitness and patriotism of men, then you have struck a deadly blow at free institutirnic ! I am going to try to complete my va' cation this week, and I have the promise of 111, and if I can take her along it will wind up all right at last. E. H. A. ] ? , It is just a little strange about tha* j Alabama primary that was held last j ! week. We notice all the South Caro-1 iirir. nanoro thnf wp havp seen any IXXXCL . - ' thing in at all about it only mention , the race for governor. They do not , Fav a word about the congressional race in the Birmingham district in i which Huddleston was running for re| election and was leading his adversaries by "a great majority," and he was one of the men marked for defeat by President Wilson, because he \ was denominated not a friend of the J administration. ; The peonle of the district seemed to } have got the idea that it was their j prerogative to elect the congressman. ; Over in Georgia President Wilson I ^ ; has selected W. J. Harris as his cani didate for the senate to succeed Sena! tor Hardwick. The other candidates | and their friends naturally resent th? | idea of the president of the (United j Spates taking a hand in the election f of a senator from the State of Georgia, j and it looks to us that this selection by the president of Harris nas maae secure the election of Howard. We would like for all those of our readers who are inclined to yote againts Fred Dominick to read the editorial which we copy in this issue from the Abbeville Press and Banner. i xi 7^4- .. _ 7-t??Vi vai * V? in"lr 1 ana men ici us wiuw ???.? jabout what Editor Greene has to say i ly FI PfPH'g (TV 8 here he has sit* 4. : cash" that has ; bringing suits, New Cos packed Hundreds of new poplin, ing colors. Cornplel range Complete assortmen se s-ur- Skirts for ? nd the Black, navy and measure. We can fit -lere lipment VV^? B. wherry, Large new line of 1 ince. Priced I ' R; nr Qfn . Ml J UAV on the subject cf a congressman from this district We do not see how there '""Id a divergence cf opinion on the subject. It is a clear and logical presentation of the case. But Domi- j nick will get at least 2,000 out of a ' possible poll of 3,000 votes in New- j county, and we would not 'be f surprised if he should get 2,500, be - j cause we da not believe that tberr? are 500 voters in this county who will permit themselves to be guided by prejudice in voting for a congressman to represent the district in "Washington. i * l The approach to the bridge over the j Saluda at Chappells, or just above j Chappells at th* railroad, lias been fixed so that ^pre may cross, hut it i is yet far from what it should be. | There is need of a new approach and j the lumber on the bridge proper needs j attention. I The Columbia State says that the j Charleston American "forced" Presi-* dent Wilson to. come out and express himself on the senatorial- race in South Carolina . That it "dragged Mr Wilson intoUaking the only position he could have taken consistent with ! his self respect and with the protec- ; tion of the country and of the 'Demo- j cratic party/' .Mr. T. H. Daniel to whom President I Wilson addressed his letter says -in i his letter to President Wilson asking vi for an expression of opinion: "7 j should 'be very glad if you could find it consistent and conevnient to favor me with an expression for publication as to the desirability of the defeat of Blease." It would seem to us that Mr. Daniel "forced" the expression of an opinion. It seems to us that the constitution of the United States has a provision that permits the people of each State in the union to elect the two United States senators from each State by a vote of the people. In fact, it is one of the recent amendments to 1 " o TY11C_ tne consuuuuu, ju we uui taken. There was a time when the senators were elected by the legislatures, but the constitution was so amended that the people now have the right to choose the members o' the senate. There is nothing in our great magna charta which delegates i to any man. no* even the president of "*"* "" + V, ? TO<-rll+ t r> caw j tH6 L D'leQ staies, me ngui wc > to the people of any sovereign State j whom they shall send to the senate. ! We do not think tha' this right to i elect the senators guaranteed to the | people is suspended even during a i state of war. We take second place to no man in ^ai* JPOmirt v aiiuiuuiv iui vunu H. T. MORRISON? A farmer and business man who of his community and the State. aI should prefer to he defeated by I them " i That is the statement made from the OCrATUS COHEN, the Anti-Bleass ' Mr. Cohen is an Attorney_at-Law. with ; Corner. I { - IMNAUGH'S I 1 | snt the past ever before mats, dresses its for Fall fall coats in all the lead- . :e assortment of colors. t of sizes. itout Women gray. 32 to 38 waist ^ any size woman. Priced $6 50, $8.00, $10.00 Corsets the latest models just in. 51.03, ^1.53, $2.03, $3.50 B _ _ m __ i re for It. ***** 1 ? \ --? , =: \ our high regard for President Wilson. J Xo one is more loyal to him and the ? administration than we are. It is a : ^ .fundamental principle of our government that the people shall have the right to select their own representatives. If the president undertakes to * d assume the fight to say whom w& shall elect to any office it is a blow of fT*0TV?l3r cmd re1?- t P'rp<!pntativp o-overnment. Unless we are very much mistaken in the people of .South Carolina they will vote in the senatorial race as they please ard without any suggestion | from any source. We are sorry Pres. | ident Wilson feels it his duty with the ' many burdens resting upon him, to I endorse cr not endorse men whom, 'the people are t". chcose. The three departments of our governments are * be keT t fcrever separate and dis_ tinct IftTLE ONES WOULD INVENT Might Be a Good Thing for ChildrCfl if No Toys Could Be Bought . for Them. "No toys!" exclaims the fond and sympathetic mother, tragically, at the mere mention of the toy Business Deing one of those in danger of being abolished as unnecessary during wartime. Oh, yes, little mother, there 4l would be toys?but they would not be ' store toys. In fact, the children would invent and make a great many of them themselves. Dame Nature would lend a hand, and you could help a bit tool There is no doubt that children must have toys of some sort?it is the very cry of their little souls. "Ne rv-i/-ifV>Qr? nf frrrpntiOft" Pf CfSSIl^ I? L11C luvuiv.1 Vi ... . 7 with dire r^cessity staring them in* the face?a pressing demand with no supply?they would begin to invent. Moreover, being the work of their own little brains and hands, such toy9 1 would more easily please. Simple| minded and contented types of chilj dren would once again be the rule, not , ; the exception. What has the nursery M ! piled high with the latest and most w expensive toys produced? Nothingi tvit that contradiction of nature?the ! child with nothing left to wish for!" I What Is there to stimulate his brains : or his imagination? Everything has been thought out and imagined for him. No wonder at the age of seven, or eight he finds life "stupid." But | with nothing to play with would come i the wonderful idea of making something.?Chicago News. I THURSDAY 5-1 oke meat ^ weatless vst no ereaix caaoarn_s. tt* jji:j j|hjffi iAsm ca ereakxast tocds ookxain'lng vheat | 7? issloner of Agriculture. -^V w.,r*iAn?Tii7illo s r. J1V. V 1CJL1K1I I V/ ( has always worked for the upbuilding 4 1 Blease rotes than to fe-elected by m very beginning of th.e campaing b candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. y offices at Charleston and Monck's t \ i