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\jj^ nl^ ? *!j- i.\? MH3EH cs NEWBERRY, S. C? FRIDAY, AHU'ST :.-}, i?!s T.VUL A WECX, $U0 A YEAR GOYriiLXCB PLEASE SPEAKS JO HIS 11031E PEOPLE. Larcre Crowd Attend Blease Meeting J MflnJnv \* icM?Th(?T Wft?t Pati ~ i ?ntly Until Ten O'clock to Hear Him.?Makes Good K Cosseiratire Speech, lr The political rally of the friends of former Governor Cole. L. Blease, candidate for the United States senate to succeed the late Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, held in Xewherry on last Monday night, was a success in ever;.'' way. The people gathered in large numbers, and doubtless every democratic cluh in the county was reprecontoH Tt was difiScult to estimate the number of persons present, and the crowd was variously estimated from at least twelve hundred to two thousand. Quite a number of ladies V were in he audience. It had -been announced that Mr. Blease would begin speaking at 9:00 o'clock, and long -before that time the | court room, where the meeting had | "been scheduled to be held, was packed K and jammed with people. The candiP date was due to speak ?at Clinton at 7:30 and arrangements had been made to convey him from that town to Newberry, after the speech in Clinton L? had been made. The automobile the w party vz ta arrive in suffered a tire puncture cn the road and Mr. .Blease was delayed in reaching Xewberrv until a-ino^t 3 0 o'clock, tut the crowd remained and stayed in a good hniro", for, as many remarked, ''Colie said he would be hero, and we know he'll come just as s~on as he can." Finally, when Mr. Blease didkarrive, it was seen that there were hundreds of people outside of the building who could not possibly gain admittance i and these ibeiran to insist that the L meeting should be held outdoors. The a candidate said he came to speak to ^he people and he' wanted all of them to hear him and readily consented to the open air meeting, although a slight rain was falling: and he had un dergone several days of sever cam-paigning. Mr. Blease spoke from the steps* od the southern side of the house. "His appeaance was greeted with great applause. He was presented hy Col. ^ E. H. Anil, who stated in introducing him, "The gentleman who is to address you. is perhaps better known to pf you than I am, so he really needs no Introduction at my hands. When but a lad, living in this town, his father expressed to him the desire that )i? ?*? ? >- - ^? w migni some aay De u-i/veruuj* ui ?uuuu Carolina. The wish of the father was realized, although that splendid old gentleman passed away before the dream he had for his boy came true. This Toung man?he is older now than he once was, but he is still voijpg? has served the people of this city and county in many ways. He has served the State in high places. He is now a candidate for the United States senate, and his friends believe that lie will be elected, and that he will add 'Y new lustre and honor to his name as j the representative of this great old , State at "Washington." As Mr. Blease came forward to begin his speech, greeted by the cheers' j from many throats, two young ladies, j Ctfisses Estelle Chappell and Flossie j Sanders, stepped towards him, carry Iing in tneir arms oeauuiui uouqueis of flowers. j Sanders first addressed him, | cind she was in t'Jrn, followed by Miss ; Chappell, and each of them in pre- i seating their flowers, made a nice j little speech, the spirit of which was j _that itbey knew him. That their people | Iniown him and leved him, tha* ; ip^ always trusted him and i |^^*reted him r.o-w, that they wanted to |j|pPRell him, here in his old home, where the greater^ nart cf his life had been spent, that t^e insinuation against his loyalty to his country would mee.t no response, for lis loyalty to -his town his county, his state his nation, and I his friends and the rights of the peok pie had been proved ever and over -1"' TV?n rlr4 of tTiasp vmiri!* ^ a^am. i ui v.?v?v ^ ladies were applauded loudly by the concourse of people. [ Mr. Blease spoke for about forty minutes. H8 w?>s in gcod condition, f and corJrt .be heard plainly by all the ^ crowd, in spite of the fact that hn sneech \ras th? third since four o'clo^l: in the afterrocrj th?-t *ay. All ( alorjr J"1*1 f*,,! I o!o;o V; ~ rpn-ipw '': v'frf1 r;r"i ' '( 1 VTr ,. r?_ *: " ' _.,a ?r.! j ... ... U . J ? - ri h;- frend* to be the greatest speech they had ever heard 11*0111 him, '"to ^ranii'nri",!i oc n sneaker \.vrc JJ.LV; i-J.> (4u w ' oretofore. iKe was not bitter, and throughout almost his enire speecn discussed issues rather than men. Ha referred personally to the editor of the Columbia Record "who has been writing some severe attacks upon him, and gave the audience some information as to the life and character of the editor and the owner of the paper. In closing, he pledged himself to do all that he could, in any way, both as an individual, and a senator, in tDe evident of his election, to support the president and the administration i*: carrying on the war to an early and successful conclusion. He said no man could prevent him from being true to his country, and his tribute to the boys who are serving their country, in this day of ordeal wa3 full of eloquence. After the conclusion of the address, Mr. Blease was surrounded by hundreds of men, women and children, who wanted to shake his hand and wished to assu. e him of their hope that he would win in his race. Mr. Blease spent the night in <Xew;berry, with his brother, Sheriff Blease, and left early Tuesday morning, by automobile, for Union county where he made three speeches. FELT THAT Ht NEEDED "PE.1" Little FeJIow Simply Had to Spend a Nickel of the Dime in His Poccession. Frank Groninger, attorney, has a pink-cheeked, tow-headed youngster, whose name to every one who knows him, is synonymous with eiiervescent, overflowing spirits. He is a thinker, too, this siMaJ! .Tr<ck. It was lie, WiiO some years vjic lias now a trained the mature age of eight years), after gravely meditating on the phenomenon that ensued whe n things were planted in the ground?i.* e., that duplicates of the thing planted accommodatingly took root and grew up out of the ground?was discovered in the yard by his mother, carefully patting and slapping down a pile of wet mud with his small spade. "What are you doing Jack; planting something?" Jack's evident reluctance to disclose the nature of his agricultural activities aroused his mother's suspicion. Grasping one of the miniature garden tools at Jack's feet she dug vigorously into the wet mud. A glint caught her eye, and in horrified silence she scraped the mud from hea jeweled gold watch. But, if Jack didn't succeed in growing nice little timepieces, that a small boy could hear tick undisturbedly, he has kept right on being active. Hence, his mother's surprise the ether day at a reply of his. Jack's father, before leaving for his office, gave .JacK a mine. Airerwaru Jack's mother seeing the coin in his hand, admonished Mm to put the dime away and save it. "0 mother," Jack exclaimed insinuatingly, "I simply got to spend a : nickel of it to give me some 'pep.'"? Indianapolis News. FAMOUS FOREST QUITE GONE l Absolutely Nothing Left of the Once Beautiful Woods mat were.tne Pride of Verdun, j Lovers used to stroll arm In arm through the well-ordered forests of Verdun. To stroll arm in arm where these forests once stood is no longer possible, Gouverner.r Morris writes in Collier's. You must go alone. If there has been rain you should have nails in your boots. The smooth convolutions of the hills have been tortured and turned into ridges and hollows like the Atlantic ocean during the equi-, noctial gales. I doubt if there is to be found one single square yard of the original for- i est floor. I doubt if there is to be I found one single perfect example of i a shell crater. One crater breaks into the next, #nd then?, merged into one shocking hollow, are a dozen which at the first moment of looking appeared to have been but one. It has been well but truly "worked," that forest floor; but not for 100 years can it ever again be worked by man in any peaceful and profitable pursuit | Rich soil (doubly rich now), it will be 1 shunned by the farmer with nis plow; j a prospect very rich in copper and | iron, the prospector will shun it, for j here, buried and half-buried, the shells, great and little, which did not explode at all, are as thick as temptation in the life of every man. Another of the soldier hoys "over there/' Horace Switlerherg, has bee; j heard from. f v?HAY SCOTLAND iS COMft T.Vs L/i-.Ic Country Has Already Cheerfully Done Very Much More Than Her Share. We are pretty well acquainted in thh country with the part Canada is taking in ilie war. We have been advised from time to time of the individual sacrifices being made by the people to the north of us. We know only in a general way what other people are doing. So it comeg as refreshing news to hear from the lips of such a man as Harry Lauder the heroic work and sacrifices of the Scots. More than 300,000 Scotchmen are under arms or have given up their lives in the struggle. And Scotland is a small country. In the cities and towns there are no more eligible men ?no more men fit to bear arms. They have all departed. Scotland is a land of old men and women and little children?and crippled soldiers. It is not' the Scotland of three years ago, with a husky set of strapping young fellows tilling the fields and working in the mines and mills. Not only that, but the people do not CUXii{Jiaiu. xm-ic mc mi nuio utv-uu.^ of tho conditions?no murmurings against their frte. The war is on; the Scots will fight it out. That is the spirit one finds in Scotland, among those old men and women and among the little children. It is the spirit one finds out in the trenches, where the Scottish soldiers st:vnd?on guard and meet the enemy face to face. The history of Scotland is too veil understood to cnll attention to it here, The record of the scots, made in the Ion? .airo, still is fresh in ihe mind oi! every one who knows history. So it isn't neccssnry to state that the Scots are b<>rn fighters, that they are not going to give up. They have done in this v.-ar exactly what those familiar with Scottish history expected them to do. And they will not fail at any time ; in the future.?Columbus Dispatch. l mn 1/ r?ur>vnr*D/lDUO nc P7AD ! uus\ rnu i u?n,ii i jo ui ii i ! r.-lovie Operation Was Privileged to j Get ''Close-Up" Views of the Imprisoned Former Russian Ruler. i In "Donald Thompson in Russian," i the movie photographer tells how he I succeeded in getting a picture of the j czar after the revolution had begun. ! He went out to Tzarskoye Selo, the j palace near Petrograd where the royal . j family were confined, and from a dis- i j tance saw the czar and his son walk- ; ! fog in the yard. "The servants must ; 1 horfl tnid him.* writes Mr. Thompson, i ? WU?V _ ! *for the czar sent word to Die to come j ! saying that he would allow me to make i a picture as close as I wished. I told ! him that I had met him before in 11)15. ! and h*d made pictures of him then :A : the front and at Lemberg. He rememi hered and immediately spoke of Meuso, i the English photographer. While ] I was making pictures and the earner? j was being je-loaded so that I could | put in some new film, several of the i soldiers came up close, while the czai I was watching how the camera was j loaded. They were smoking. One oi j them elbowed the czar away and at th< 1 same time blew smoke directly in his | face. But.the czar didn't show thath* ' j was annoyed by this. After I had mad< some motion picture films of him and J his son, and also some still photo- j graphs, I saluted and said 'good-by.' j i He answered 'good-by.' While walk- ! i ing away I glanced around. He was i still looking after me and talking tc his son." I "Strafe" Made Prize of War. The British have taken "strafe." Ii an announcement from the Oxford University Press the fact is officially made I known. The captured word has been : | included, not to say interned, in the ; latest volume. Volume IX. of the Oxford j dictionary. And as a trophy of war it j * 1 1 -Ci- /xS? AriC?. l lifts oeen min. ?.i uku ntivno- i ! tically British fashion. Its flat Tcu- j i ton "a" lias been changed to the long ; English V as of "safe," and from j two syllables it is reduced to one, so 1 that it may rhyme with "chafe." Xor dees the process of eliminating Germany in this verbal instance stop on the mere point of pronunciation. To the compilers of the Oxford lexl r> ?<- iq "v sinner." So in captivity | this word of portent originally fierce j i loses not only in quantity but in qual' ity. To quote the London Times, as ! cited by the dictionary makers, "strafe l is becoming a comic English word." York Road Set Free. The final step in clearing old York road of its toll gate incumbrances was taken recently ar-d six toll gates between the city line and Hatboro will hereafter ccase to vex the users of this 1 important highway. Philadelphia abolished all toll gates within her limits some years ago, but these nuisances still continue to maintain a state of siege about tills city except on the Delaware river frnirj, where the ferries i a similar part. TIic ferries rei'.::'iin rrii! ; * 7- v.*; T'o i4: j bridged, but the !: - c no, J and are going.'?' in !'; .. sixgiey a:cd supdeth w?.m: ynoyi sevtberky. ? ? Singley and ? ? .Suddetli, were two of the seven sailors reported as missing from the United States patrol boat IMontauk when that boat wj.s wrecked by a heavy gale off Cumberland island. 20 miles north of Fernandina, Fla., at 1 o'clock Wednesday m^rnino-. Of the ?even, four were from South Carolina, McCurry 01 t iOrence ana :MCUu:s OI Ui eeavmv. Winiam P. Pngrll. Prosperity, Aug. 22.?Mr. William P. Pugh died Tuesday night at his home in the O'Neal section. For the past several months Mr. Pugh has been in decling health, yet his death crme as a shock to his many friends. He was a gallant soldier during the Civil war. Mr. Pugh was a successful farmer, also director of the people'? National bank and ? the Prosperity Coton Oil Mill. He was a member of the Methodist -church, having held a stewardship for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Pugh celebrated their golden anniversary about a year ago. He was a devoted father,, and hus' > v:. rrj't n s^nnrh cifteo!} .alway dorood in his community!**- ""-V41 Mr. Pugh is survived by his wife, me daughte-. Mi^s Sallie Pugh, two sons, Dr. G. T. Pugh, ^r>sident of Columbia college and "R. T. Pugh of our-town. Bll The finishing touches are being pi't to the new bank building and the jail Colony Cb"roh. The members of the congregation will -be delighted to know that the Rev. I. E. Lo?.g of Winson-Salem, N. C.. has consented to preach for us S/unday mornir.g, August 25, at 11:00 o'clock. Brother Long is a son of Colony congregation, and is now a ^- sfrr of one of the mo^t prominent at.es cf the ?\orh Carolina synod. No one is more delighed with his ? <-1 . wntliflYi ^VinrnVi an r? career man uis uiuwci vuui^Uf uuu we know the members will honor him with their presence. L. P. Boland, Pastor. "Tell T. R. It's Mike." From New York comes the story of a former resident of Belleville who was kept busy night and day answering telephone queries regarding the health of Theodore Roosevelt during the latter's recent illness at Roosevelt hospital. The man had a telephone number similar to that of the hospital. The limit of his patience was * 1 1 nn o mnn pnllpd reacneu. nuwevci, ? m. n ?. iUUU .?? and said: '"Tell the colonel that Mike Hicks called. He'll remember me. I'm tlie rel low that shook hands with him at the depot the day he came to Allentown." - . - >. i Some Financier. "The fair defendant has been acquitted." , "So I hear." "Is she thinking of going on the stage?" "Net ^et. She's too smart for that. She's going to marry her lawyer, and 6avc a corking big fee/* ? " New Disease. 1 disease new to science and provisionally called "X" has broken out in the west and northwest of New South Wales and has already caused a number of deatns. The symptoms somewhat resemble those of cerebrcrsplnal mer.insitis, but it differs pathologic? i'rom that disease and in some respects is somewhat akin to pneumonia.?Scientific American. i i wmmM ! > * ' . '. ''L.. '? i g\ : "" , ,-j |( $ sV : ' %N?iMMP|SS' j , = ' :^f j< f"" *^r] t - -: _n_>r_;* ? ^'r'' ?*&... ft T>v-c*? -'Z ,:' *7^ ; c ?7w r *\ 1 .:" *4.^% r? A <C.7^ J - 7?""> /A-v-^T^ ? "W w ' .?_> ? 14 sl '-a^'v'i.J .. * * *("?' /'* r. ^.- * ?"/T*/7/^ OV**. :: r:, >>; s day observed at ST. PAI LS ( lintCII. | j 1' Old Folks day . was observed at St. j Pauls Lutheran church in No. 10 towr_ ship on Sunday. This is the old home church of my father and mother and of my paternal grandfather and grandmother and of myself, and I always like to ?0 there. The custom of observing Old Folks Day was established several years ago, and it is always the third Sunday in August. S mday was my birthday?which one it doesn't matter?and really it doesn't matter about the birthday at all?but I went . down on Sunday to enjoy the day with the good people of this congregation. Mr. Walter Richardson was kind enough to drive up for me and bring me back, but I doubt if I was the magnet that attracted him to this kindly "* ' * * T - ? ~ ^ ^ 4- a A G68(l, Dili 1 appreciate it JUM luc jxwui;. , This thing of setting apart one day I in the year in the memory of the old ^ r.aople cf a congregation is a beauti- . ful ci-stom, and in tliess parts, so far ' as I know, was first donfe in the Lutheran church at Prosperity, anrl had its origin with Mr. A. PI. Kohn no^* of Columbia, who was at one time a member of St- Pauls, and whose early childhood was spent as a member of this chtirch. * This chrrch is noted for the large c11- ^ /i r> tto c? r* r\ av wcio nc C-v~ copt.ion except that the congregation fas exceptionally large. The church' row sor-ed 1 y the Rev. S. P. Kooii - ho i? very highly esteemed by the r."9?-:ibers, and rightly so, because he preaches well and js a good pastes ? > *1 tVirt / inncrfonrnHOn o n /-I til O TM.<?trtT* r;e is united and working harmonio.v>!y under his leadership and the church is growing and prospering. For nearly a half century this congregajt**on was served by the late 'Dr. J. A Sli^h, and from this congregation several other church organizations nr.d are now flourishing con gregations. It took the congregation some while to adjust itself to any other pastor. Many of the members had known no other pastor from their youth up. But the people now all speak in the highest terms of .Mr. Kor>n and his good wife. And it is wpll I am going to presume to make a pn^srest'on as to these Old Folks Days, even if it he ccnsidered as 'Shutting I in" where I should not tread. The sermon is all right, but there shoull be something more than the sermon and theMinner. They should be times of reminiscence and some member or farmer member nf the church should bo selected from.among the older members to give some recollections and reminiscences and thus they would be able to preserve a lot of the history of the church that otherwise will ,be lost, and let them put these recollections in writing so that they mi?.ht be preserved for the use of the historian in the future. The old members, fwho could go back even before the days of the war, are fast passing and there has .been much history made in tne last. nau uemui v ui mwic and much of it has 'been made by the members of this church, and why noc let them tell of it while they. live. There is my friend A. H. Kohn of Co- . lumbia who was once a member of the congregation and who delights in delving into the history of communities r?"d famine5* who could tell a good story of oVi St. prd many others who might bp named. And Uncle Jacob SheaTy who was onee a ^1omber and who is new rear the century mark. Tf some one would get him to 1 tel! of his recollections for nearly a hvn^red years it would unfold a great < and an interesting story. The^ermon en Sunday was preach- ] Pd .by the "Rev. Dr. J. TV'. Horine, editor of the Luthern Church jV)Gitor. He ] or?aphnd a good sermon and it was er.i^yed by the large congregation. ( The afternoon was set aside to thr> i<>^ication cf the service fla^ for the ' boys who have gone out from the eonTrp<r<ition to the se^ce of their coun fry. and are row either in France or m the way. That was entirely annrrnriate at this time. Thpre are fourteen stars in this =erv;co fla?. The address was made Dr. O^o. B. Cromer. He SDoke o! rhe war and its causes and of the hoys rv-i-o ?rp over th^re. The n^strr onHed r>n mo i:nexpeetp i ^ of tJip cOTi^r^PTition k r\ c '"* T r*0 !* -> r\J ? * <? '"? ? ? pj T C. P f* ^ '"t"' ? i7. -j fT^r? w'?-A'r'j 1 ' * * ' * iig to vlio t :ne America a prayer ia [It: shape of a hymn which was writion 'n* Rev. Mr. Koon,and it is a beautiful and a very appropriate prayer for the boys. It was printed in The Herald and News a few issue* back. The hymn contains 3ix stanzas and the first contains a p^yer for them. The second a prayer fo" thera in camp. The third a prayer for their crossing of the seas. The fourth a prayer for their safety in the battle. The fifth a prayer for victory of theiV arms and the sixth for their safe return to their homes. Mr. Koon stated in announcing the hymn that he had the matter in mind for some time, but somehow he could +Via tnonirotifln tf> write, bllt llul get cixc del one occasion Mr. Walter Richardson had offered to take him to the camp at Columbia and they were t* start about 3 a. m. and he got up to be ready, but Mr. Richardson was delayed in coming and while waiting on him in the early hours of the morning he wrote a couple stanzas and after his return from the camp the other was easy. The sentiment of the hymn is beautiful and it should be largely circulated and used. It fits the tune America. The following is the list of the fourteen younjv men for whom the stars in the flag stand, as read by Mr. Koon: Lieutenant Geo. Eerley, Camn Lewis, Washington State. Corporal |. k. Livingston, m n?m.r, Oscar Troutmar., in France. Luther D. Aull, in Fringe. Clyde Epting, on the v;ay to Franca. Bonnie Sease, Camp Jackson. ^' * + r?or*j a t*_ Aivm smgiey, vuiumcci no...-. ? loston. Jacob Earle Livingston, Camp Wadsworth. Geo. Euston Richardson, on way to France. .Tames Kibler, Camp Jackson. Hugh Epting, on way to France, fames Tillman Kibler, on way to J 9 France. J. H. Tal'cert Werts, on way to France James Leo Richardson, Camp Jack, son. Lee Aull, another soil of Adam L. Aull is a son of this congregation but had recently moved to Columbia and had mnvpH his membership to the church there, and he is on the way to France. Ernest Counts has volunteered in the navy and been accepted and is waiting a call. I should not forget to mention that there was a bountiful dinner spread under the magnificent oaks which we all enjoyed. Plenty of fried chicken, country ham, pies and custards and cake. * It might not be inappropriate to s?y, inasmuch, as so much has been said about the political affiliations of the boys and how they would feel if a certain candidate should be elected, that I was told that 100 per cent of Hiqco thrwc qro supnorters and friends bii W VJ KJ IA A v . ^ of Mr. JEIease who is a candidate for the senate and that their fathers will vote for h'm in the approaching primary. i do not know this of my own. knowledge out was so told by several gentlemen on Sunday. B. H. A. The Service Flag. A square of red, a strip of white, one little star in Diue, Is hanging by the doorway that is home to me and you! The boy has gone?he's over there? he's all we had to give; Dur only son, scarce twenty-cne, who'd just begun to live: It's lonesome now, and when lasr. night I laid my knitting by, -* i. \xtTii1a t sobbed a sneni pnajei wi mm gazing at the sky; Ureat Saturn shone, and Vega blazed in glory, yet I knew The heavens held no orb so big as my one star of blue. ?Henrietta Kendrick Reeves. ' a * MORE FRUIT and LESS SUGAR + * How? * More Less "A Canned Fruit Jam * Dried Fruit Jelly * Fruit Butter Preserves * Fresh Fruit Sweet Pickles * -k ? M tA" "ir i< J; it ir v i. iz "a* i< ^