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. DON'T SQUANDER THE PAST Continued from Page 1. dead man's achievements and name, Its constant visible presence weaver him into the texture of our national life, and enriches our national cxis. tence. Once some years ago, a king came from his north Europe country to visit us. He avas tall, and young, and strong. Much of his time was spent in the wilder regions of our West, TV hr.ro hn wpnt for bit? camp. Rll' he saw other paft3 of our country too; and he was asked what, during his vi-sit to America, had struck bin, most. "Yovr wastefulness," was his reply. Centuries of experience spoke ir that wise remark. From father tc son back through history, further back than Washington, further bac! than Columbus, need had taught thr Old World the hard lesson of thrift It was in the year twelve hundred and something that the City of Frankfort on the Main was already conserving a great forest near by. From that forest it got all its wood. And thcforest never gave out. I saw it ir June, 1914, thick with tall health: trees. By the year twelve hundred Frankfort already had learned from experience that if you treat a forest in one way it will disappear, while if you treat it in another way it wil' go on helping you, century after century. Close to almost every little village in France you would have found before the war a forest that had been supplying the people with wood in the same way for centuries America was thick with forests once. Where are they now? Three hunu/ed years have bden enough for us to kill what Europe has kept alive for a thousand, and knows how to keep alive for a thousand more. When Roosevelt began his policy of conservation, he was angirly resisted. A Western senator remarked, "The people will take the sticks all the same." Huge floods, huge droughts, and the high price of lumber, are the consequences of the people taking the sticks. The forests are not quite all gone but it will be long years before Roosevelt's now generally understood and accepted policy of conservation restores the balance, and we have learned to use our forests without abusing them. Meanwhile, the changing of that name of the Northeast Boulevard to Roosevelt) Boulevard points the way to another kind of conservation, a mental or spiritua' kind, which it is not too late to practice, and which can be much more easily inaugurated. Some two millions of young American men were in France. But they were not fighting every day. There were times when they had rest, and other times when they had a few days' leave. During these they noticed keenly the bad drainage and the high prices; but a good m^ny of them must also have observed other things If the French principle of naming streets attracted the attention of any of them, they must have noticed an entire absence of the Avenue A, Tenth Street, Eleventh Street system. In Paris, for instance, our soldiers mayhave walked in Franceis the First Sterot, and Avenue Jena. In similar American terms these thoroughfares would be Washington Street, and Manilla Bay Avenue. Now in our system we resemble the French ju?t a little. \\\ do commemorate famous men: but I cannot recall many instances where we commenta rate famous events. Independence Square in Philadelphia is the only one which occurs to me as I write. If we have any, highway or public place named after the battle of Manila Day. I have not heard of it. There ought to be many. The name would enrich the future. School children not acquainted with the Spanish War would say to some teacher or parent, 'What does Manila Bay mean?' And then it would be a privilege and duty to tell them; to sav. "There, in 1S98, our Admiral Dewey beat the Spanish fleet. There, the KaiseV, whom we helped the Allies to beat, wanted to stop us from beating Spain, and sent a Ger' man man-of-war to make trouble for Admiral Dewey. But England also had a warship in Manilla Bay. When the German asked the English admiral what he would do if the German ship interfered between Admiral Dewey and the Spanish fleet, the English admiral answered, 'That is a secret known only to myself and Admiral Dewey.' So the German minded his business and let us alone, and Admiral Dewey was victorious. But the Kaiser was very angry when he heard of that. He said that if he had had a 1 <v-,r fleet then, he 'would have taken Uncle Som by the scruff of the neck;' but he didn't dare pet into trouble with England just then. And that was the reason why Germany, in 1914, when she declared war on France and invaded the neutrality of Belgium, had the popular slogan, 'Paris in three weeks, London in three months, NewYork in three years.' " Would any school boy thrill to hear that story? But France does not stop with public men and great events. Our soldiers, when they walked in Paris, may have passed through Bizet Street, or Auber Stree*. Neither of these men commanded armies or rule da State; they were musicians, living private live9. In every town in France there are public places or streets named after Frenchmen who have won honor In some way. Can we not do the same thipg for our own children? To raise a monument or to make a statue costs much money, and only the Very distinguished deserve such great honor. But to name a square orxa street is simple and costs nothing. In hundreds of our towns from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Mark Twain should have a street? Oh, no! He ought to have an avenue or a square! Huckleberry Finn alone de3erve3 that. At this point I perceive that some reader may say: "I know what thi3 man's driving at. He is a writer himself. He Is preparing the way to have a street named after him." My dear sir, there is a street, there is a railroad station, bearing my family name already. We used to own much real estate in the ncighorhood It's about the meanest street I ever saw. and the slowest trains stop at the station. I know?I know so well that I'm sick of it?the justification offered for such nonentities as Avenu^ A. They say these names are "efficient." A man can find hi3 way about letter il he sees he's on Avenue A with Tenth Street to the left of him, and Avenue B in front of him. Well then, in heaven's name, let the man be lost: Let us have a little less of efficiency and a little more of romance and inspiration. Are we to suppose that Frenchmen are lost every da'y because they get into Victor Hugo Street in. stead of Avenue A, and that they have to be found by a large mounted constabulary and taken back to their homes before it gets dark? i Shortly after lunch one day on a railroad that 1 shall not name, in a Mid-Western stkte whose identity 1 prefer to conceal, we stopped at a certain place. I looked at my watch. "Are we on time?" I asked the porter. He said we were. I looked out of the window. People were on the platform. Automobiles were drawn up adjacent to it. Beyond was a level space. Into this emptied a straight street. At the far end of the street was open country. It was a business street. At one cor. ner stood a brick building. On the building high up was the name of a manufacturing company. On the building low down was a big circus poster. I fell asleep. Roused by some jar of the train, I waked and looked out I consulted my watch. "How much longer are they goinf to keep us here?" I asked the porter "We just stopped here, suh," saic he. ? "Just stopped for fifty minutes!" I replied, showing him my watch. "Naw, suh. We just stopped here right now. 1 knowed you vas enjoy, in' pleasant dreams, suh." As we moved away 1 took my last ook tha stiei ght sire i with Ihi open country at its far end, the brick building and the circus poster. Rut I did not go to sleep. 1 watched flat fields, rolling fields, wire fences, and crops go by. After a while we slowed and stooped at the next town. Then I knew that I had not taken my last look at the straight street, the brick building, and the circus poster. There they were, all of them, out of the window. This train could not go backward or forward or stop, without that implacable sight greeting the eye. Every town was built on the same model. "Conductor," said I, as that official passed, "how much more of this state have we?" "About four hours." "Dark will be here before that," I said. "Until dark, would you niiiul keeping me under the influence of chloroform?" "Say!" he exclaimed, and leaned away from me apprehensively. "1 suppose it might not be legal." I murmured. . "But J wish I could b-' | painlessly rendered unconscious while this standarized scenery continues." "Now, see here," said the conductor, "1 don't want any trouble with you." "You'll have none," I sighed. "You know, and I know, that south of us and north of us for mile3 and miles run parallel railroads through flat fields, rolling fields, wire fences, and crops. And you know that the trains all stop at towns where you look out and see a straight street, a brick factory, and a blue and red poster with elephants, or somebody about to shoot somebody, coming next Tuesday or Wednesday, or some other day. 't is not the fault of these towns that they could all be shuffled and redealt in the night, and that their inhabitants could wake up in the morning, go right down-town to their business, and not discover it was somebody else's town. But I am wondering what on earth we can do to make it all a little more succulent, a little more interesting." "Well I guess I'll have to leave that to you," said the conductor. As he quitted me, I caught in his eye the hope that he should be rid of me before I became dangerous. These Mid-West towns, and all our towns, can be given something to| morrow morning that follows the 1 French plan, the wise plan of daily suggested patriotic inspiration. They are full of young men who fought in France. Let such names as ChateauThierry, Dormans, Soissons, VillersCotterets, Hheims, St. Mihiel, Argone, Montfaucon. Verdun and a dozen more, be given to their streets and public places. Every doughboy can\ i ?' ' not have a monument; but this can be done to commemorate his gallant deed3, his bit to save civilization. Let the American Legion get to work all over the country I * : But let others get to work, too, lip-on other lists of natffes. We have men of science, dead and living, who deserve this sort of commemoration. Fulton has it already. Edison must have it some day. And how about the inventors of the airplane? We have sculptors, St. Gauden3; painters, Winslow Homer; architects, Richardson, McK-m; musicians?New Haven should have a Horatio Parker Street; illustrators, Nast; and every town in our Rock Mountain West should have a Frederick Remington Street. We have scholars known throughout the world of scholars: Horace Howard Furnes"5, Francis J. Child, William .James. France would have a street for every ' one of these. We have great constructors in the materia: world, A. J. Cassatt, James J. Hill, A. T. Stewart, E. H. Harriman?some of them held lawless in their day, but all public benefactors on the whole. Should not Dr. Walter Reed be thus commemorated? A hospital bearing his name is not enough remembrance for ridding Cuba or yeiiow rever. ahu should not Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table? We have historians, Fiske, Prescott, Motley, F'arkman; poets, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe. .. ; Only see, when we begin to think it over, what a real wealth of men we possess worthy of giving their names to streets smi ? >uares. ! 1'x.vc not attempted to name even a qaa.tr of them. Some men are great enough to have a street in many towns, some only in the towns of their birth or their adoption. Surely Uncle liemus should go farther than Georgia! Surely 0. Henry should go farther than North Carolina! Bret Harte belongs to us all. There is the town of Emporia, Kansas, at which I stopped once, purely to make the acquaintance and to shake the hand of one man who lives there. May that day be far off? but, when William Allen White shall bid this world good-by, a William Allen White Avenue or Street will give inspiration to the people there, will provide mothers and teachers something worth telling to inquiring children. It will be for committees appointed in the towns throughout our country to decide for their respective cities what names had best be chosen, and how important the street allotted tc their various choices shall be. ^ I should wish George W. Cable to have a good wide street, but there was a time when New Orleans would have denied him a back alley. James Russell Lowell would not get even an alley in' Richmond, where James Branch Cabell and Ellen Glasgow and | Thomas Nelson Page and Mary John- 1 cton will earh receive and deserve thoroughfares full of sunshine. When j Robert Grant is gathered to his fathers, a street should commemorate the author of "Unleavened Bread." Boston might very well incline to dedicate to Edgar Lee Masters a quie? nook, but we may question if SpooD River would accord him so much as a sewer. Yes, yes; there will be high timer for the committees. But I am certain they will do it, and learn, thereby, a great deal themselves, beside? rendering their towns and their couri. try a true and abiding service. Were I to appoint such a committee, I should make it small enough to meet often and easily, and large enough to con. tain a broad-minded professor or school teacher, a bank president, a lawyer, a doctor, and a couple ol ladies, with the mayor of 'the town ex-officio. To the American Legion, to the American Institute of Arts and Letters, to all good Americans whoevei they be, I commend the study of tha* p'onH French custom of naming high ways after good Frenchmen. Woulc it not do something more than mere, lv relieve the uninspiring monotony of Avenue A ,and Tenth Street? To me it seems that it would color and strengthen the texture of America, patriotism, would give us something not only richer for ourselves and more highly flavored for the stranger but also a spiritual shield against the forces which would undermind and destroy our Government itself. Let us hoard every worthy drop of our past, that it shall be a strong tonic for our future. ' <. TEACHERS EXAMINATION. By order of the State Board of Education, the regular Teachers' Examinations will be held at each county seat Friday, October 7th, and Saturday, October 8th. This examination is given under orlnnttwl Tlll'V 1, 1921. It embraces three groups of questions: the first for Primary Certificates; the second for General Elementary Certificates and the third ! for High School Certificates. W. F. Young, Supt. of Education. DISCHARGE NOTICE ?_ * On 2.">th of Oct. next, at 12 o'clock of Chesterfield Coutny, South Carolina M? I will apply to the Probate Court for a discharge of administrator of Estate of Jennie 0. Pegues, deceased. Sept. 23, 1921. J. 0. Raley, 4t Administrator. . harvesting and Handling peanuts Clemson College, Oct. 3?Last year there was produced In South Carolina 1,620,000 bushel3 of peanuts of which It Is estimated that around 80 percent was marketed, the remainder being either hogged down or gathered and fed: This year's estimate on the production is 1,630,000 busb'.ls acceding to the report dated Sept. 1 by Mr. B. B. Hare, Crop Statistician of this state. The majority of these peanuts are the White Spanish and will be used by the peanut oil mills and shelling plants in this state North Carolina and Virginia. Our growers should be warned against the careless harvesting and handling of' peanuts, says P. L. Harkey, agent in marketing. Peanuts for market should be cured in the stack for at least three to five weeks before picking, depeuding ipon tht weather following harvesting, ft the weather is windy and dry, the curing process will be rapid. Peanuts should not be picked from the vines nn/lo VtAtro hoonmo /irv onH uuill^ tUG pwito ua> v MWW...V \l* J M..u tho peas firm,?except the immature ones, which will appear a bit shrunken. A better grade of peanuts is secured if picking is deferred until late1 autumn. In order to insure a bright color of peanuts and prevent damage by birds, all pods should be well protected in the stack. Otherwise, they are likely to become discolored by heavy fogs and driving rains and the market value thereby decreased. After thrashing the peanuts should never be exposed to water or dampness of any kind, which would darken and discolor them. When properly cured they are covered with a fine dry dust, and if this becomes wet it adheres and fdrms brownish spot3. If peanuts when picked or thrashed show signs of dampness, they should be spread Bi 4 ' . Blankets, & Bed Monday an IT* _ J_ at a neai 15 TO 25 I For These Tv We have a h stock to select fro Just received of Ladies', Misse Hats. Store Will Clo 12th, on accc Holi The Ne CHERA Cheraw E Plumbi Electrical Contrac Plumbing a Phone 263 Save Time By Go J. S. BUR Variety J Cherav We Make a Special Little Thing I I -w ? ; ....... JV' | on a floor or stored in a well ventl. lated building until thoroughly dry. Most growen store them in cribs or corn houses, where they can be kept in bulk until loaded in the car3. If the pods have thoroughly dried, tney may be put into bags a3 they ( come from the machine. Before peanuts can find their way to the consuming markets, they must be cleaned of stick, stems and other rubbish and assorted into grades. This is done by a factory process, and in this state peanuts are shipped direct to the milh without being cleaned. The stock a3 it leaves the farmer's hands in uncleaned condition is known as "farmers' stock," and is sold at certain prices per ton. Twenty-four thousand pounds make a carload. No federal grades have been adopted for peanuts, but the f rades adopted by the Southeastern Pv ?.nut Crushers' Association are used largely in this section. A copy of these grades can be had by writing F. L. Harkey, Agent in Marketing, Cleni3on College, S. C. Small Clouds on Jupiter, Prof. XV. H. Pickering, in a recent address before the British Astronomical association, recalled the fact that during his observations at Arequipa he noticed that the surface4of Jupiter, instead of being composed of uniform bands of yellowish white or brown, really consisted of an enormous numhor nt i?Ttrpmelv minute reddish brown clouds seen upon n perfectly white background. The effect of belts was "produced where the cloudlets were numerous, and the light spaces where they were scarce. He compared the appearance of these spots to the wellknown "rice grains" on the sun. Their length lay irl the direction of rotation of the planet. He said he had Since observed the cloudlets in Jamaica, and they have been seen In England by Phillips and Steavenson.?Scientific American. The Chronicle Is $1.50 a year. iy Comforts Spreads id Tuesday action of >ER CENT. irn Hiive Onlv TV/ 1/Uju irge and complete m. a large selection s' and Children's se Wednesday, ?unt of Jewish day. w Store W, S. C. /ledlric & ing Co. :ting and Supplies nd Heating CHERAW. S, C.! and Trouble ing To CH CO'S. I >tore First r, s. c. ty of Carrying the ;s You Need if" ' ^ MICKIE SAYS r * -\ f \ tAS, VMCVCSt VXc \Jv?,\MOOVO St 1 I ViO\M AP1UEP. SUPPW4' 001 ov? ; TV* P\PST PAGE A>40 PENHYAOVViO1 SOVAt CP OOP. VWGYWM ESIGtVAEb \ PEAOEUS "TWKl iHEVP. PAPEPS \ ' AB? EXP\P\V?G \N\TW -?H\S \SSOE,\ f AND SA\CVC\t, TEU, lUEVA At HOW j j \P ANN OP rwc\s PAW. 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' Society Hill on Thursdays. !heraw on F'ridays and Saturdays'.,*, R. L. McMANUS, Dentist,- - ^ Cheraw, S. C. ' o ; -' WOMAN'S SPHERE "They talk about a woman's sphere, a-^ff it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven,' There's not a task to mankind given; There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whisper, yes or no, There's not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feathers' weight of worth, Without a woman in it." STOP THAT ACHE! Don't worry and complain about a bad back. Get rid of that pain and lameness! Use Doan's Kidney Pills. Many Cheraw people have used them and know how effective they are. Here's a Cheraw ca ;e. Mrs. C. F. Tillniaa, Third i?t., says: ''I had kidney convplaitn awfully bad and a constant backache. In the morning when I got up, I ^ras so sore and lame I could hardly straighten. My head ached; I had dizzy spells and my sight became blurred. My kidneys acted irregularly, too, and were very annoying. Colds settled on ir.iy kilneys, making them worse. Finally I heard of Doan's Kidney Pills and began using them as directed: They cured me of all signs of the trouble anl I am glad to give my endorsement." The fcbove statement was given December 9, 1914, and on Febrtiary 1, 191S, Mrs. Tillman added: "I can speak the same of Doan's Kidney Pill3 as I did in, my last statement. I still think Doan'3 the finest kidney remedy on the market." 6Cc, at all dealers. Foster-Milburu Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. J. W. Rainwater, Plaintiff, Court of Common Pleas. VS ' Dock Brown, Elizabeth Hollin and Matilda Hollin, Defendants. To the Defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and required to answer ' the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith serVed upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office in Cheraw, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and | u you iau 10 answer me cuuiyiajuu l within the time aforesaid, the plaini tiff in this action will applv to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. B. F. PEGUES, Plrintiff's Attorney. Dated April 15, 1920. To The Defendant: Elizabeth Hollin; Take Notice: That the complaint in this action, together with the summons, of which the foregoing is a j copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas and ', General Sessions for the County of Chesterfield, State of South Carolina, on September 21, 1921. , t. B. F. PEGUES, 9-22.6t Plaintiff's Attorney. : . _ . i iclc of Our BLUE BIRD : J ade Flour ITH EVERY SACK, .lendrix Co. , \ \ md Coal I to buy now. noney. fl rou buy. s on carload lols, Wood. AND HAULING AT TIMES / - tSra hapman I