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DON'T SQUANDER THE PAST
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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\
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DENTAL N0r7ciT~~
I will practice atv - .
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Evenings.
Pageland on Tuesdays.
Mt. Croghan on Wednesday morning
| of each week. '
Society Hill on Thursdays.
!heraw on F'ridays and Saturdays'.,*,
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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."
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State of South Carolina,
County of Chesterfield.
J. W. Rainwater, Plaintiff,
Court of Common Pleas.
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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.
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