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"After the Earthquake, After the Ftre The Still Small Voice of Humanity." Crowds From Several States Heard President Wilson Make Notable Address at Charlotte ? Words on Peace Were Given Significance. ( \ (V. Mat ?*?? |'ri>i?teiiJ \\ lis, li. >|M'Akijiy! ??if Wyl'ld jK-iHf hi tnfr a 1 f. ; ? v% ? I of i?y?< lltllj'll ??'! I h.oU-.illd in'-'j Iiefe IimIji.v. ? !<,-? *Ii? red I lull i** nil llifel e-tHlU l III UI4?>I llUtl ?ll?* I tfi icis ?*?*' <i f {fit* war Main I ^ t ill .i'id r>i ii f "*f IU'm* hot tiling (lull ??!?? in ? ?>li (41.4 1 \V i I I 1 1 (Mil ll irtfh'l' ? I ?"? Ml?l Iliakl.' mie-l.i |>r ?uic*i uunllist iit< It <'ili?-r He I ( 111* I "when .\ol| /'anil' *1 'Ili-rnililc, Mill Hii.lM lake eotUJsel The President plaint* ?]H.kc cuurd ? '<11 \ \s llt'll IlM'lll i'tliiliii -.(<ea<e in I 'll I. ill 11111.il at liK hearers hiiw 11 plain mu^u?"?I ion in I'i"* words No inf tin. 1 1 ? ??! 1 ?hi i 1 1 i.\ 1 In* t mil much pro ??'r? u.i> 1'i'inu' 1 in* ? I** jiml thai Ihe ohjttl- hi'llltf sought |?v Ijie l)liro|M'illl nation* ? < m t i ? I hi- iii'Ii l*-\*?i I U'llri thru |hm< . ful means III) I 'I isidl'lll > WlU'd* Oil JWilff. v\ * ? 1 ? ? ?;ii t-ii ^i'Uiiilli'H me liy li 1m hearer* iii \ ii-u of | lit* ll'll'llt dlstlWnion of ? It* I ?o ?? > 1 1 > 1 1 i 1 1\ of ending tlif |]iiro|H'an war. lie said Hull "here la Autoriea we ?U?i\ e l rled to set t he example of brlnir intr all tflie world together upon terms <>f lilx'i'l.v and coojH'ial ion and j mui.i and in that &reat cxjH'rieiuv Hint mt Imvc heen koIiik thrm'iuh America has Imvii a sort of prophetic sample of man kind.'" The President's addrtss was enthus iastically applauded l?.v a crowd tfath rnsl from several .stall's to eeh*hrate tin' mil' 1 ail' hundred and forty-llral aiuil ver>ary of tin' siipdnK of the Meek ? leuhurk Iki'laraMou of liuie|>eiideiie?.' Before s|x?akiiiK h?* rt'vlcwwl a lonjj militar.v and industrial "preparedness" parade, and afterwards lie was the ^uost of honor al a large lunch and went I ? \ automobile to Davidson Col-i h'Kiv twenty utiles away, wfliere lie one* was a student. He was ac<*ouipanled j h.v Mr-. Wilson. Neeretary l>anlels, Kim* retiir\ Tumulty and others. The re l epii'-u < ommittee 1 1 1? luded Governors Cralu >'f North Carolina and Mauniiu; of South Carolina ami Major Kirk patrii-k. of Charlotte. The PrAsidetitV S|Hyfli. "ll Is with' unaffected pleasure tli.it I (>?>?! m> -???! f" in I lie presence of this interest iim company today. for 1 have nunc hack for .1 vi-it nil to?> hrief to i si ri'irion \i>r\ familiar to my heart, | the yreefiotf of whose jteople ix j |>e< iilhi rl \ w eleome to inc. I do not know, niy fi'How citizens, whether I < .in Interpret for ,\oii today tlir spirit ot tlii?? occasion, hut it i- , ii?>- -e--n i \ w'Iumi we t;et t o ? * 1 her in' eetehra t ion - Iil.<e | |i i lit lake ciMlll.sel ! togethei wltii je^ard !?> J 1 1 t what it I- tli.it we wish 1 ? celebrate Von | w ill ??;!* we v\ i?di to eeh-hrate tin ' iiieinoi ji*-4 ut ( luit time it, which w ?? ! look haek with -in*h pride. when ? ?i i r | father* with singula i wisdom of conn sel and stont nes- of !:ea rt undertook to set 1 1 1 ? an iiji!e|>eii<ieikJ nation oil this side of the water: hut it 1- \ er.V 1 1 > 1 1 < - h more itii|M?rtii ut that w e should remind ourselves of tile elements with which our forefathers dealt. There weif only three million citizens in that niiiriieil republic of the I'nited State- 'if Amcrica Now there are* ? .lie 1 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 1 ? ?< I millions It is a Ion- , 1 r\ i i.e-k (?? lh'?se in i m 1 1 '?t he^iniiinirs : ' a ^ reat foiiod ut tini". not onix . hut a great of profound .'*> *| ?ii r<i I ?? -. IU from thtft I i nie, ami yet' I Mould remind ? u Hull tho siiiih* rU* UM'iif ^ urn' prisriil Mu'Ji '? thtft are > present now. N v What I ?"****? ** my^thoufcht iti4 1 1'v jjlian 1 1 1 j > 1 1 1 i 1 1 u' cUr about t ti?? I rtltwl {States j- Hint i( t)HM ahvwi.N* t^|| ?n I ? l ? .if Jtclng OVU'I sihtV that I Til I It- U-vbodng, Hint tbllt TtU'lV .1 1 ; i \ ? ? J always l?iM*ii the same element* in ttir I proi IN- At 0l?' oilt-iet I here WIIS lit ! i hi- i ;?'u 1 1 -if I lie iimn w ti?> led thr j iiiov fun-iit for lmle|>cudonec ii \'nj*v liluh j ;i tit I handsome (Mission for human Mb j ci I and fr^t Institutions, Add yrt ilteie lay before tlifiii a uifH I contl ' ncnt which It w us mH-essary hi Mlh<lllC to iji4? iw? ? ?f civilization Jf flt^v wi'i'i1 ; going t<> build II | n >11 il II glcHl state I MIIIOIIU till* f*J 1 1 1 1 i I \ of llHtlllllH. I I ican I j II pl^lcliri olice po I li t ?nr fill* VtM'.V i Interesting ''iri'iiiiiKt ii net' ihut our 1 Lord's pra \ i'T U'tfins with i in* | if i i t ion for our dally hii'iiil from whhth In* drew thi< Inference that it 1* very dif l}cti 1 1 to worship <????! on tin empty stomach unit thai the material foiinda t ion?* "I' mil lift* aii' tin* lli'nt foiliuia1 fhiii.t. What I want tr?vcall your at It'lit i' Hi I < i l>- that this t -? >11 1 1 1 1- y 4?Vi'l' since trtat time has di-voted jini' l (.rally Jill iif its at lontlon, |HH'ha|?f? tmi much nf Its attention. to tin* iiiati'i'lal foun dation of. i.i ?? l i f?* ; to subduing tills continent to ihi* use* of tin: nation anil I" thr building up of a great body of w i*a It It ami materia) power. I thai some moii who when thi'y think of Ami'ilca do not think of any thing else hut that. I.hit in.v frleml* there linv-e hi-on other nations Just a? rlrh and ju?t as (K>w4<rful in comparison with othor nut Ions of thr worhl an thr Unit oil Static is, ami it is a great ?lral morr important that wo should de termine what wo arr going to do wlttb our jH?w4?r than wr should |>osross it. "You must remeinlier. therefore, thr I'li'incuts with whh'h wr arr dealing. Sometimes thoso of us who wrrr born in this part of thr country |>rrsuade otirsrlvrs that this Is tin- character istic part of America. Hrrr iuorr than | any wlirre rise has l>ern preserved a , great part 4>f tin* original stock Avijlch settled this country, particularly that l?ortloji of tin* stork whh'h came from thi' liritlsh I sirs. (I am not mcanlug to exclude Ireland) and thru I tlnd a Krrat many <?f my frhmds who livr In NH'w Knglaud imagining that thr history of this country Is merely the history of tin- expansion of NVw Kiik land. and that I'lymouth Ho<k lies at thr foundation of our Institutions. As a matter of fact, my fellow eltizens, 1iow??v<?r mortifying It may lw to them or to us, Amrrh'a did not come out of the South, and It did not <?omr out of New Kturlaml. Tim characteristic part of America originated in tin* mhldlr states ipf New York ami l'rnusylvanla ami Now .Jersey, bemuse there from the tirst was that mlxturr of |>o|hi la t Ions, that mixture of racial stocks, that mixture of antecedents which Is the lm?s: stiiifiihir ami distinguished mark of the I'nited States. The most slncular fact about this jjmit nation that il is nnide up out of all thr I nations of tfl n ? world. I dare say that the moo w 1 1? > came lo Amerl"ii then and I Jio men who lime ranu1 since '"line with :i siii^lc purpoxi* : sharing some part of tin- passion fur human 1 1 1 m 1 rt \ whioh oha racterl/.i'd the men who founded (lie rrptlblie. but they ';iine w it h nil sort - of 1i|o<mI in their ^ oiiis. ;i 1 1 ^ort>. of a uteoedeiils belli ml t hem. id; Mirt* of traditions in their lamil \ ami national life ami Auii'rii'ji has ha 1 1 lo >or\o n-? a ineltiuu |nit fur all these di\ ei*sitiis| and contrasted cle lueiit? \N hat kind of lire of purr pa.s sioti are \ oil ^oiliK' t" keep buruiim iinih'r the pot iii order that the mixture that comes out nia.v lie purged of its dro?.?. and nia\ be the tine cold of un fa in led America nlsiii '/ "I want to call your attention io another picture. America has always been in tin* making and had to i*' made ami while we were in the midst of process apparently at the acme ami ( risis of this process, while this travail <d' ^oiil and fermentation of element o was .-it its height, came this ? i i'.'i t catac|\-m of Kuropean war. and abii-.-l c\ en otlmr nation in the world he- uiic ii.\o|\cd in ii ureat strugi.de. What are the <l?i??**nt- j?? J^sgsg; ule ; 'Iftfc't yull !>4M* in this 1* huvii the very 4lilHU that hu* t**" . L,.'"? ?? It. An..-,,..,- it to ? W; i ftramt mjmtir.ii? ??.1 "T ??.?rg !?'' tU* political .->Mcm- Ijn I frt*rfpptf*<1 in Vv.5?V a* we Itft*1' 1 ill f*' H*'4' Whi^t ',.1* gotolK I done wiflh th<?M' l|?l?lic?* when they [i!Z Z to hot With on, JU. ,, I Foril'o >'on not rouieud>cr;lhat v\ liili* I hoc u,"\ lu An ? some very iutcrentlng thing* wciv liap|>onliig"J I' w as ? ver> big world into which this jwUtm came when II was born. but ?t Is a ver\ tittle world now, It Used to take u UiUt.x days to go from Washing^! to Charlotte iu tlioM* day* as It flow take* hours. I heard au Irishman say If lilt' |M?wer of .dcitm rollllllUWl l?> ?iwrvaw In the >?'u r>0 >**? ?? M |iatl In the last. we would get to < har Uti (?? two hours before \*4> lt'', vv M*"" liiui.iu", Aiid as' t hoe l""<rs^s <?* teji-coiiiuiuulcatlou have Ween develop! ami quickened, men "f the same na tloii not only luive grown nations hive mown closer neighbor* with each oth er: and now that we have Cht*t<t In visible tollgnes ?'??l h|H'ilk b.\ the wire less through the truckle** air to the etuis of the world, every nuin can make every other nuin In the world his neighbor ami *|>eiik to him U|?on the moment. While these pr. Hisses of fermentation ami travail were, going on. men were learning about eaeh other. nations were becoming more ami more acquainted with each tit lier, mi t lulls XN t'l f IIIOIV iiimI IIMHV iHHMimiUK Inte'r-.veltttiHl ana lnte.V'Ctmiiiiunh-ntlon whs being quickened In every iniKslble way. so that now the melting |Kit is blggi-r than America. It Is as big Is the world. And what you see taking place on the other side of the water is the tremendous ? -1 had alsiut said final process by which a contest of elements may In Mini's process lie turn ed Into a co-ordination and eo-opora tlon of elements. V'J . "For It Is an Interesting clreum ntance that the processes of the war stand still. These hot things that are In contact with each other do not make very much progress against each other. When you catmot overcome, you must take counsel. See then, la dles and gentlemen, what a new age we have couie Into. 1 should think that It would quicken the Imagination of every man and quicken the patriot ism of every man who cares for Amer ica. Here lu America we have tried to set the example of bringing all the world together uisni terms of liberty and co-operatlou and i>eace, and in that great experience that we have been getting through America has been a sort of prophet sample of mankind. Now the world outside of America has felt the forces of Americas felt the forces of freedom, the forces of com mon aspiration, the forces that bring every man and every nation face to face with this question 'what are you going to do with your power? Are you going to translate it Into force, or are you going to translate it Into |H,?ac? and' the salvation of society V" Doe** It not Interest you that America has run Istfore the rot of the world in making trial of this great human ex periment and Is it not the sign and dawn of a new age that the one thing upon which the world is now about to fall back Is the moral Judgment or i mankind. There is no liner sentence III the history of great nations than that sentence which occurs in the dec laration of lnde|?ciidenco < I ant now referring t?? the minor declaration at I Philadelphia, not to the Mecklenburg declaration i In w hich Mr. .Icfterson said a decent res|?ect for the opinion of mankind makes it necessary 1 am not now quoting the words exactly that we should state the grounds up- j on w hich we luive taken the imiwu'tant j >te]. of asserting our liideiHMidence.' j A decent respect for the opinion of mankind ? it Is as if .Icfterson knew j that this was the way in which man-! kind itself was to 'struggle to realize] its aspirations and that, standing in ? tli<* presence of mankind. thi> little j group of three .million people >hould *;iv friend and fellow-citizens of the great moral world, our reason for do- 1 lug this tiling we now intend to state, to you in candid and complete terms, so that you will never think that we were merely throwing off a yoke out ? of Impatience, but know that we were throwing off this tflrfng In order that a great world of liberty should be open to man through our Instrumental it v.* "I would like. therefore. to think f tli.it the spirit of this oct *ii > ! i 'i i * ?i iii |i I I <? expressed if we Imagined ouim-Ivi^ lifting somo sacred emblem of ?oini -??I Mini of j?eace <?f accomodation ; 1 1 ? < I ritrhteotis judimictit before the D "f tin' world and rem hid in;: tlicm of that passage in Script tire *:i ft ? ? r the \\ i ? I . after the earthquake, .il'er ? ?? iit?* i he ^till small voice of hniim ni* * (?coruia Sherifl' Killed by .Attorney. I If!" i ton. ( la.. May "J1 . ? Shi-rii: s. N llailex, of Klliert colllity. wa- -liof and killed in the court house in -iv t - d.tv !?> Arnold Worley. a wellkiown atton:f.\ ,,f this city. Citizen- w<-!? ? ' !'* *;i 1 1 \ excited and Worley we- -cut t?> At hen-. <Ja.. as a precaution. I; i.> -aid ih.it Worley charco* I Tfnile\ with. t heimr 1 1 1 ? ? 1 11 1 \ routrh with a negro j> li onet :< i ? I that the killing wa- the r. -ult IM> YOi: KNOW THAT Life i- :i eonstaut Struggle agam-t death |)irt.\ refrigerators may make -i.-k liex* The 1* s. Public Health Service i> sues free bulletins on rural -Anita tion? The ilefective citizen of ttnla} oft . times the unhealthy child of yester day? ? r: i Rver\ man is the archite<t of his, ?own liculth? Its the hnhy that live* that count-'' TuherouUwd* is contagious, prevent a hie, curahle? The full dinner pall ? the open win , dow ? the clean well ? make for health? j andGoctaoJ \] lKl*I)5 T1IIC tiRKAT COM PKTITI ON in thu (lax* of time piece has hnoictif al>otit .such a high standard thai Alarm Clocks are now sold by us at a mere fraction of their former price. No anc need be without an alarm clock when they ?tn be IhiukIu at the price we a?k. VV> liflvc a lrtrjce hUk' k of other rloekn ? from the stately old liull clock to the pretty mantle timepiece. (Tome in and admire ? we know you \rill buy. > G. L. BLACKWELL Jeweler and Optician Camden, S. C. Ill VON (IKVNH) 1 r On IfU (ireal. Mo\ iii|{ rirturr "The Birth of h Ntttion." Th..ma> I ho famous ? laud count > writer, mlnlMor. lawyer i anil ticitir, wh<?>e remarkable j ill financial revenue with MTllO Birth 1 of" av,.\ul|on" reads like a IHie from J Arabian XJtfhta. I* now in Now York j.alTUUi!iug f<*1 presentation of a UlUUliUV'.lll wiH!Vl*W.iv "n* ktlOWU Uv i "Ti?e Km 1 1 a Nation." Tlilo i* -t?? in* presented at III** I. liberty theatre. New York", the '">? w??ek l?i J iiims with >;|H'?'ial in ii> l< b\ Victor I lerhert and 'cost* nearly a. million clt*lli? r>*. myord "jinn I ? ? oilidal ai>iiouii*<uit'iir^ Mr. < ? r ifli 1 1) . under whose direction I "'The Birth of a Nation" was. pro i ?J ?t< ?*? l i* not concerned in "The Kail v. , - j .?f )i Nation " This is Mr. l>l$on> own venture. in which lit* is associated 1 ik [with some Wall Si ?>??'! hankers,' who were allured I ?.> the prodigious profit* made by "The Birth of a Nation." Tin* mi|tiv? ?oriented success of "Tin* j Birth of 11 Nation" Is responsible for ; later big undertakings. j Tin* financial liWitr.v "of "Tile Mirth ! of a Nation" reads like romance. and j \\<ail<i in itself furnish material for a ; scenario. particularly the way In w hit h 'over tfTno.ooo was t ?i*a?*t I?-h 11 \ forced ' into thi" |HM-k**ts of Mr. I d.von. its j author. Mr. Dixon was willing to sell his riuhts in "The lUrth of a Nation" in the iH'KinniUK for ail advailtv of $2,500 J and a small weekly royalty, hut Mr. tjriftith and his other associate* in sists! that lie take a 'Jo i>er cent inter est in the profit*, hut with no advance on royalties. His 'Jo |H?r cent of the i profits to date has amounted to over $700,000. Miss Alice Kauser, as Mr. !>lxonV agent, unexpectedly came into a for tune I>ochukc of the author's windfall. Her contract with him for placing the scenario called for tO pep cent of his profits, so that her share of the big clean-up has been $70,000. with no effort on her part but- to forward Mr. I >lxon his weekly check, minus her commission. \V. II. Clune. whose great picture. I "Banioua" is now coining money for j him at the Forty-fourth Street tlie j at re. New York, has profited nearly j $!too,uoo on "The Birth '.of a Nation" ; because he advanced $.'10,000 toward : the eoriuhuil production, and received j therefor a .10 per cent interest in the profits. Some Boston men who bought the ; New Kngland rights for $53,000 have already cleared nearly triple that amount, and will make as much more. Mr. (Jrlftifh's share has l>een about (a million, and the minor stockholders LOCATED ON DeKALB STREEtj 90x280 Feet. Price $3.000j Kennedy & Workman REAL ESTATE AND RENTS, CAMDEN, S. C - ' loss, hut very handsome amount*. Thomas Dixon was horn in Shelby, January 11. IStW. and was graduated from Wake Forest college. 188il : grad uating from the Greensboro law school in 1NK0. He was a member of the North Carolina legislature from 1881 to .188(1 and resigned to enter the Baptist ministry in October, 1886. He was pastor of a Baptist church in Raleigh in 1887. His winter home is at 8(?T Hiveraide Drive, New York. ? | Charlotte Observer. The children of today will be the men and women of tomorrow. They should nee "The Battle Cry of Peace." Majestic Theatre, May 30 and 31. Maxwell King and Marlon Sliuler. two |M?pnlar young men of Orangeburg county, were tired ui>on at a late hour Thursday night while driving along the public highway from Orangeburg to Howesville. Mr. King escaped -in jury. pther than uue shot hitting his car. Mr. Schuler was struck by several shot and more painfully injured, but, ii' it seriously. $30,000 Truek on Klghteeo^ ? lteaufort. May 22.? W, R. jty who has recently purchasedthefl V. Bentou place. near lioaufcrt groat reputation in the Northern M kets. gave a genuine old-fashioned | becue to his 200 farm employee* I day, and 150 of his friends, incfti the Country t'lub members were il present. - /{J Mr. Eve has owned this farm ? four months aud has produced fs eighteen acres aud sold to foe Xai era market^ about 130,000 worti truck and estimates Hint the aft crops how growing on the sane pie of ground will bring $10,000, tht? ? ding another chapter of wonderful r suits to the history of Beaufort tv productiveness. " ;7| _ _ . ' All?ert Turnage, tho alleged fit* of Kugene Rainey on the nlghji May 1. was arrested In Aberdeen, | (\. Saturday morning audwtsbw| back to Sumter Sunday ?aorninfii placed In the county. JfllL ?4 DRINK ~ Everybody knows it by name Chero - Cold 's so^ U the originaOx*tde,-steriliz?3^ sealed and labeled at the plant." ?nmiKTmnsitnnrmsrK: Each bottle is filled by machinery?the syrup and carbonated water are accurately measured by machinery, therefore you get die same uniform pleasing flavor in every bottle, which is abso lutely impossible under the ordinary soda fountain method. - You can get your CHERO-GOLA, "In a Bottle-Through a Straw" at Soda Fouhtams and other Refreshment Stands. Everybody knows it by its * *' #?