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> Speaking to Now Citizens, Wilson Ex pounds Faith in Justice. Philadelphia, May 10.—President Wilson gave to a gathering of 4,000 naturalized Americans tonight the first intimation of the course the United States probably will pursue Xn the situation resulting from the loss of more than a hundred Ameri can lives on the British liner Lusi tania. He spoka by implication, but his hearers interpreted his remarks as meaning th^t while the United States would remain at peace it would seek to convince Germany of the in justice to mankind of the tragedy. “America,” said.r r the president, “must have the consciousness that on all sides it touches-elbows and touches hearts with all the nations of man kind. The example of America must be a special example. And it must be an example not merely of peace be cause it will not fight, but because peace is a healing and fjevating in fluence of the world and strife is not. "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such p thing as being so right that it does not need to convince others by force'that it is right” These remarks precitated a tumult of applause and patriotic enthusiasm attended by waving of thousands of small American flagsr The president made no direct reference to the Lusi tania tragedy, but the audience did not hestitate to read the application of his statement. The sentiment expressed in the president's speech was epitomized later by one of his closest advisers as "huma nity first.” While it had not yet been •^determined, he saic 1 , exactly what steps would be taken by the United States in present crisis, the idea uppermost in the president's mind was to show that whatever course is adopted-no matter how vigorous—it will have as its objec tive the good of humanity. Af «d Confederate Soldier Has Answered the Last Roll Call Mr. James A. Odom, an aged citizen of Barnwell County, died at a hospital in Augusta, Ga., on the night of the 23rd ult, at 11:30 o’clock, at the ripe old age of seventy years. He was an ex-Confederate soldier, h .ving served gallantly in Company B, Second S. C. Artilllery, stationed on James Island,S. C., and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., in 1865. Mr. Odom was married three times. His first wife was Miss Martha Bolen and to this union ten children, eight daughters and two, sons, were born. His second wife was Mrs. Cornelia Gill, of Barnwell County, and his third wife vus Mrs. Heather Webb, of Aiken Coun^ Mr. Odom was reared in the Healing Springs section of Barnwell County, and was a member of the Baptist Church at that place for a number of years, transferring his membership to the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon until his death. His funeral services were conducted by his pastor, the Rev. J. D. Peacock, at Calvary Church, in the presence of a large concourse of people from differ ent sections of this county and else where. He is survived by his wife and eight children, six daughters and two sons, and thirty-one grand-childeew.' J. D. Peacock. old- FAIRFAX REVIVAL CLOSES. Work of Baptist Evangelist Does Mack Fairfax. May 10.—The series of re ligious services that have been con ducted at the Baptist church during the last two weeks by Evangelist D. Paul Montgomery and his two sons, Vance and Paul Montgomery, of Blue I Mountain, Miss., which brought about the greatest religious revival ever j known here came to a close last night. ; One result of the meetings was 87 accessions to the Baptist church, 521 for baptism, 33 by letter and two res torations and besides this there have been accessions to other churches as a result of this great revival of Chris-) tianity which is evident among the ' people irrespective of denominational proclivities. Ellenton News. Ellenton, May 8.—Misses Effle and Myrtle Brabham of Hattieville were visiting friends in Ellenton this week. Mrs. R. C. Davenport ahd Miss Belle Bailey of Augusta visited the family of H. M. Cassels this week. Miss Nonie Dunbar of Aiken is vis iting Miss Tutt Youngblood. Miss Tutt Youngblood has returned home, after a protracted visit to friends and relatives in Aiken. C. S. Warner of Allendale spent several days this week among the El lenton people.' Mrs. W. D. Bush of Greene Cut, Ga., visited in Ellenton several days this week. L. B. Asbell is visiting friends and relatives here. J. P. Griffin gave a fish dinner Thursday to about 40 friends, s' Mr. Otis of Augusta visited C. M. Turner and family this week. Capt. L. E. Hallo'wes is visiting friends here. Th* Little Country Paper. It’s set by hand and printed on an time Campbell press. But every item in it has an interest none the less; And week bv week its coming makes a sweetness in the world. The little country paper brings within its wrapper curled. The little country paper, From the old town, ah me. Has anybody died this week? Let's open it and see. The outside’s patent medicine, a poem, and recipe, But smiles are on our visage when its homely type we see; • The ink is badly levelled and some words are upside down, But it's the little paper from the sweet old country town! The little country paper, Like a letter from a friend, It comes to bring us comfort At the long week's golden end! The editor is lazy and he don't get round much more. To gather up the items at the black smith shop and store; But here are all the funerals, and the the marriages are told In simple old-time sweetness of an English style of gold. . The little country paper, Some one’s fence been white washed, en? The old church steeple’s painted, And they’re tired of Parson Gray! The back page has a story of the old Ned Buntline type, An old smell hangs around its folded pages like a pipe, But sweet with morning music it can make the city seem, Because it brings the old town up to visit us in a dream. The little country paper, Been .no robberies anywhere? Who’s gone away to visit; And who n 's come to visit there? ’ —Baltimore Sun. Pratidant Wil»on Has Information that Public Has Not. New York, May 10.—Alton B. Parker, Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1904, issued this statement today: < “The attempt to persuade the public what action the Lusitania disaster re quires the president to take is unfair to him and may work unfair injury to us. He alone must bear the heavy responsi bility of decision—and greater there can not be.. No one knows it better than he. For both personal and patri otic reasons his best efforts will be put forth. We all know this to be true. Why then dp we not let him alone? Why not give him time? There is cer tainly no need fdr hurry. Qn the con trary there is every reason for making haste slowly. "Have we forgotten the Maine? Can we not see President McKinley stand ing with his back to the wall in the face of hoarse cries of angry men demand ing war—and his refusal to hurry. He saw his duty to the people and per formed it. True, in the end war came —but not as a result of passion—and in the mean time the sentiment of the world had come to our side. “The president has information that we have not. When to announce a decision may be almost as amportantas what the decision shall be. Let us all pray that those who will be heard be cause they can not act may be induced to desist until the man chosen by the people to decide shall have performed his great task.” Diappnaary Election Commitsionert. For the information of those who hold claims against the Barnwell County ' Dispensary Board for expenses incurr ed in holding the election on the ques tion of re-establishment of the county dispensary,-The People takes pleasure engineer and fireman, - ~ I Remember. I remember, I remember the house where I was born, the little window wh^re the sun came peeping in at morn. You’d hardly know the old place now, for Dad is up-to-date and the farm is scientific, from the back lot to the gate. The house and barn i lighted with bright acetyline, the engine | in the laundry is run by gasoline; we have silos, we have autos, we have dynamos and things, a telephone for gossip and a phonograph that -«ings. I The hired man has left us—we miss his , homely face—a lot of college graduates are working in his place. There’s an a chauffeur an J FAIRFAX HIGH WINS. Banrwall T« Loots by Score of 11 * to 6. Fairfax, May 10.—Fairfax high school team defeated Barnwell here today by a score of 11 to 6. The feature was the excellent pitching by Wilson of Fairfax. He struck out 12 men. Batteries, Wilson and Loadholt; Brown and Dicks. Umpires, Lyons and Greene. But Going to Law Is Loeinj the Sake of a Cat. Going to law is the losing of a cow for the sake of a cat. In law nothing is certain but the expense. - No people were ever better than their liiws, though many haye been worse. Laws are like cobwebs, which mqy catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. CLAIMS OF SUCCESS MADE ON ALL SIDES • Garmaay and Austria Boast of Groat Paads. In the fighting along the battle lines in Belgiunt and France and in Russia and in the Carpathians both the Triple Entente and the Teutonic allies claim successes. None, however except pos sible Austria and Germany, record success on a great scale. Even the statements of the Teutonic allies are reiterations of several days past that couKTOFconmunjus . CONVENES NECTMONDAT Laws are generally found to be nets the Russians continue to be pressed ELECTRIC SPARKS. •irnpls Homomado Apparatus by Which They May Be Produced. The ordinary person either does not undent*ud or U afraid of electricity and could ncnrceiy be persuaded to mauufHctuir It Dimaelf. and yet after *H a little eleculral experiment at home la both aniUMlug and Instructive. All that you nave to do la to take a j'lnss, expoae It to tbe fire ao that It ehall Ih* perfectly dry and place It up aide down upon tbe table. Afterward take a Cray, also perfectly dfy. and .place It upon the tcius* in Much a way that It ahall preserve Its equilibrium. Finally take a sheet of paper aliictitly smaller than the tray ■Eeffnt nhrt rub It raphUy-with a brush and It will become quickly electrified Then place It upon the tray. An electrical machine will thus hare been constructed without any expense. If the-flmrer he brought near the tray a spark will appear. This spark will be so much the brighter and the series of sparks will be so. much the longer In proportion ns the glass and tray are drief. If. when tbe sparks are being drawn from the tray, the room in which the experiment Is performed be darkened these sparks will appear extremely brilliant—Pearson's Weekly. of such a texture, as the litttle^ creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in. The plaintiff and defendant in an action at law, are like two men ducking their heads in a bucket, and daring each other to remain longest under water. We have no right to say that the uni verse is governed by natural laws, but only that it is governed according to natural laws. To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm and singe themselves to cinders* and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that othes njay be decorated with their feath- ers.^^ Law is never wise but when merciful but mercy has conditions, and that which is mercy to the myriads, may seem hard to the one; and that which seems hard to the one, may by mercy when viewed by* the eye that looks on through eternity. The law is the standard and guardian of our liberty; it circumscribes and defends it; but to imagine liberty with out a law, is to imagine every man with his sword in his hand to destroy him who is weaker than himself; and that would be no pleasant prospect to those who cry out most for liberty. In all governmnets, there must of necessity be both the law and the ■word; laws without arms would give us not liberty, but licentiousness; and arms without laws would produce not subjection, but slavery. The law, therefore, should be unto the sword what the handle is to the hatchet; it should direct the stroke and temper the I'orce.—Ford Times. back in Galicia and the Carpathians and that Hungary is free of the enemy’s forces. Petrograd does not deny the Teu tonic claims, but declares the Rus sian* arer fighting back hard at cer tain points and that the attacks of the Teutons are becoming less fre quent. - In the West Berlin declares the Germans have driven the allies out of strongly fortified positions hear Ypres and that they' have captured several villages in Flanders. Sir John French, British commander in chief, however, says all Germany’s attacks haye been repulsed. A repulse of the Germans near Nieut porte, the capture of lines of trenches over a front of four and one-third miles dear Carency and the takings of a front two a half miles wide far ther east are chronicled bv Paris. Newspaper dispatches from Switzer land to Paris report Austrians and Germans fleeing from all parts of Italy. A Geneva dispatch stated that 600, 000 Italians have been moblized 25 miles from the Austrian frontier. Here’s a Tangle. How easy It Is to mix up the aver ape business man was demonstrated the other day when the son of a local merchant leaned apalnst his father’s knee and Innocently asked: “Daddy. Is today tomorrowT “Xo. my sou. of course today Isn’t tomorrow." answered the father. “But you said tt was," continued the sou. "When did 1 ever say today was to morrow V” _ “Yesterday,” answered the son. f "Well. It was; today waa tomorrow yesterday, but today l* taflay. Just as yesterday was today-yester«ty, but is ypsterd'V today; aad tomorrow tylll be todrn b ...u.row, which makes feday yesterii.... and tomorrow all at oncte. Now run along aud play," and the fa tber collapsed Into his chair with a sigh of relief.—Louisville Times. in publishing the names of the State a vet., Tectrician and mechanic. Oh; and County electionStommissioners, as the farm’s run right,/you bet. The follows: M. Manning, Barnwell; T. F. | i^tle window where the sun came pen- Hogg, Kline, and S. A. Wise, WiUiston. | ing in at morn nowbrightens’up a bath All claims must be approved by these room that cost Dad a car of corn. Our milkmaid is pneumatid and she’s sani tary, too, but Dao gets fifteen .cents a quart for milk that once brought two. The editor has been indisposed for Our cattle came from Jersey the the past day or two and that fact ac- hogs are all Duroc, the shhflnffrg counts in pan for the,lack of tfie usual down beauties and the ieBKtMM P!y-~ amount of local newt. Then, too. The mouth Rock. To have the best of People’s correapondenU seem to have everything, that is our aim and plafi. stricken with writer’s cramp this fur Dad not only farms it, but he’s a gentlemen, in accordance with a notice published elsewhere in this issue. , riJk lis posed fc 'business man.—E. F.. McIntyre. f'-iqln of "Hip, Hip, Hurfahl* "Sui». hip, hurrahl" our modern yell of delight is said tp bare an ancient origin. The word “hip” Is supposed to be composed of tbe Initial letters of the Latin phrase, “Hlerosolyma eat perdita." meaning ■troyed." the “I” tn stltuted for the “e" tbe German knights were persecuting Jews In tbe middle age* they are said . to have run. shouting. “Hip, Jiip:” as moehaa.ta.saj Jerusalem Is destroyed. "Hurrah" Is said to be from the 81* vonlc “bu-rmj." meaning “to paradlsef btp. hurrahT would "Jerusalem la lest, we are oa oer to paradlao."-ludlanapolls News ] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in the Post Office and advertised May 10th 1915. HAta Ben Campbell, Ernest Odom. raMALa Clara Mota Allen, Lader Ashley, Mrs. Isabelle Allen. , raon dud Law am ornca. Jeff Dortch, M. C. Tria, Daisy Wood ward. Persons calling for these letters wiO please say advertised. Chas. E. Falkenstein, P. M Dear Editor:— In your issue of March 25, 1 notice some clippings from the News and Courier and the Southern School'News referring to thd’long service rendered by Prof. W. W. Hart as a teacher in the public schools.* Their publication recalla to my mind the winter session 1880—1881 which he taught at Pleasant Hsetaeol, Geocgely Creek township. It was there and then under bta leader ship that I got my introduction to the study of history, a subject in which I find keen delight to the present time. If there is such a thing as an intellectu al birth and if I have enjoyed that birth I feel that it was there and then that the new awakening came. In the brief study of Swinton’s Condensed U. S. history which I took up at that time, I was brought into a knowledge of a world outside of my own immediate neighborhood. It was like coming into a new life when I learned of Columbus and tbe Cabots, of John Smith and Pocahontas, of Jamestown, New Amst erdam and Plymoth Rock, of Henry and Franklin and Adams, of George Wash ington and the American Revolution! To my childish mind they were heroes of another age and of a far off country, so far away indeed that I never dreamed at that time of ever visiting the,homes of Washington, Henry, and Jackson, of standing on the very spot in old St. John’s church where Henry uttered the memorable words “Give me liberty of give me death” and of «f>reaching in the com munity where he had lived, tyilh his grandson in my pongregation! Yet these privileges I have enjoyed in recent years. s How enlightening and elevating is the study of history and literature! The failures of meu and nations as well as WmIu’ T The May term of the Court of Cow men Pleas will convene here next Monday, the 17th inst., with Judge S. W. G. Shipp, of Florence, presiding. Only civil cases are to be tried. Tbe ollowing are the petit jurors for the first and second weeks: First Week Jurors. Allendale—S. D. Williams, J. W.Bates T. L. Pearlstine. Baldoc—W. T. Mims. Barnwell —L A. Cave, J. A. Porter, W. J. Lemon, L. E. Davis, E. A. Brwa- *on, H. L. Creech, M. B. tfogood, S. J. Keel, C. B. Lazar, j; S. Keel* P. W. Price. y M Bennett Springs—Geo. D. Kirkland. , Blackvilie—W. L. Altman, J. M. Far rell, Bontel Dychea. Four Mile-C. M. Turner, S. J. Bai ley. ' ♦ . ! Great Cypreaa—T. L. Sheppard, Solo mon Hogg. 1 Red Oak-T. B. Ellis, Jr., W. D. Gantt. Richland—R. R. Burcxhalter, Henry Webb. Rosemary—A. P. Wooley, H. M. Hair B. E. Folk. Sycamore—W. L. Brant, J. M. Brant, J. P. Boyles. WiUiston—Jackson Matthews, W. A. Porter, C. J. Bates. Second Weak Jurors. Allendale—C. D. Jordan, J. R. Boy- leston, W. R. Darlington, Jr., 8. H. Harley, W. B. Oswald, E. H. Harter. Barnwell—W. L. Cave. R. C. Cb«^ roll, E. B. Peacock, Angus Patterson, W. V. Richardson. Bennett Springs—W. A. Meyer, W. P. Bailey, D. P. Key. Blackvilie—Virgil Baxley, W. H. Hutto, Jr., B. F. Gardner, it B. Hair, S. E. Ray. C. C. Storne, 1. F. Still, Charlie Hutto. Oeorges Creek—N. C. Grubb*, Jr., W. O. Collin*. Hr C. Hutto, C. P. Carter. Great Cypress—W. H. Johnson. Red Oak—H. P. Anderson. Rosemary—W. C. Cook, W. C. Bell. C. E. Grimes, W. B. Laid, L. B. Grubbs. Sycamore—W. A. Bazzle. Williatoo—T. P. Mitchell, O. L. Shuler. '-m “All the good the past has had Remains to make our own land glad. Thia is a great world we live in but for many it is circumscribed by an unfavorable environment and a lack O’ knowledge to such an extent that all they know of it is “their own potato patch and over the branch to mill,” as I have heard it expressed. We need to get a glimpse of the larger world if we would despite gossip and slander, prejudice and hate, and other grovelling things. The mind will feed on some thing, on low thoughts or high thoughts. Why feed it on low things when it ia our privilege to supply it with the no blest thoughts of the greatest men of the ages, and even train it to think God’a thoughts after him? Nothing will so enlarge our mental horizon, broaden our human sympathies and inatUl reve rence into our souls as a knowledge of the facta of history, the loftiest senti ments-of literature and the amazing wonders of science. As we go back beyond our own country’s history, to that of the mother country, to,the for mation period in European govern ments, to the “glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was ftame,” to Egypt, Babylonia and Phoenicia, look ing for the sources of our civilization, we must not forget that from the little nation of Israel we received that which is best and most enduring—our reli gion and bur sacred literature. These have made us what we are, and have wrought mightily for good upon our history, literature and-art. And theis substance—he through whom “all the nations of the earth shall be blessed”— is our hope for eternity! Shall we not thank God for these treasures for our minds and hearts, shall we not thank him for the language he has given us, the vault in which they ; are kept;..and the alphabet, the key to this vault and for the teacher who helped us to turn the key in the lock and open the door, and invited us to “walk in” and partake of the Wright, ^ OU Blue* Lancaster, Mo.—8. Kelly lecturer for the state board of _ lure waa here last week inspeetiag the elephant farm of William P. Hall, (Diamond Bill.) Although not gener ally knowq. Hall has the only elephant market on his continent, and since the war, the largest in either Europe or America. He controls the elephant trade of this hemisphere. Des Moines, la.—In bankruptcy pro ceedings here it came out that a Mkm Dottie Morgan, a former resident, had for a loan of 110, pawned her body tn Moses Levich, to be delivered to him after death. The woman moved te Denver and Levich has asked the eoort if the pledge can be counted as an asset. Columbia, S. C.—Mias Clyde, Yarbo rough has been awarded tSjXNhdaamg* es for three inches of skin from her rosy cheek. She was thrown from a a street car and sued for 110,000 dam ages. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Coroline Klink, anly 17, of a respectable family, col lected 12,375 in 30 days from friends for whom the promised to get job* in the customs service. Her own father 150. She had no means of making good and she is now doing 30 days at Blackwell’s Island. Home Talent Play. On Friday night, May 14, .at the Opera House, the beautiful spectacular play “Seven Ages of Woman” will be pre sented by the ladies of the Episeopel Church. The entertainment ' is being directed by Miss Julia Grace Kincaid, a professional coach, and a performance that will appeal to the cynic and On critic is assured. The play is ■'pano rama illustrating a Woman’s life from the cradle to the grave. Beautiful drills, songs, music add tableaux are intro- feast duced in the various Scenes, taking her "Jerusalem ia de- sentiments of the race are n "htp" being sub til “mt" When their herttic deeds and noble achieve ments are recorded in history for our spread before ua^Blessing on his through the years of interest from a instruction. We are to avoid the mis- head! -■ -j dancing fairy, a romping college girl, a takes of the past and profit by its' Ruskin says the greatest thing a soul society beauty, a bride and on till the successes. The noblest though*‘and ever does is “to see something and help golden hair has turned to silver. A corded in somebody else to see it.” I desire to cast of seventy five persons ia bow ra the great body of literature for our bring my tributeto the teacher who was hearting and neither tune nor pleasure and profit This literature ia n among the Brat to help me. to “see;” is being spared to make this of the gotten out in such cheap form now that sod aa I "see,” and as I have “been most gorgeous plays ever prodnoed bjr every home, however pom- and humble blessed,” if only I shall be able to help amateurs. In addition tmyenjoy it and receive its instruction, others t* N “ae«,” and tothem be a bless- will give a thirty minutes' Whatx vast treasure house it is! And ing, R abalLbe enough! ' choice readings, having tljf alphabet wehave tbekey to .• J. W. H. Dychea.j 25c., adults 50c. Curtain rinss at unlock the door wlych leads into its Heath Spring, March 31. > . sharp, wealth and pleasure, ft has been truly that - Advertise in Tbe Peottie.