The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, February 10, 1909, Image 3

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CHILDREN! Vinol is the only preparation of Cod liver Oil that children will take and which is easily assimi lated by their delicate digestive organs. It builds up firm, healthy flesh, and makes little limbs round and plump. Delicate chil dren thrive on it and lovetotakeit The body-building and strengthening properties of Cod liver Oil—but no oil — combined with peptonate of iron, makes Vinol the ideal tonic for delicate children. It tastes good and always does g< ILllllf GROWING CHILDREN play hard and work hard. They eaergy and vitality that needs replacing. Give them Vinol reg- alarly. It keeps them healthy. and muscle and pare rich Mood. DELICATE GIRLS **My • year old daughter was weak, pale, and had no a tlte. 1 gave her Vinol. ana began to thrive at once, gained rapidly In weight, color and strength.** — MBS. W. H. GILMORE, Durand, Mich. SICKLY CHILDREN cannot digest ordinaryCod Liver Oil or Emulsion of Cod Liver OU on account ad their greasy na ture and nasty taste. It upsets their delicate little stomachs. Vinol contains all the medicinal value they do and tastes gawd besides. M MY TWO CHILDREN, who were puny and ailing, rap idly gained flesh and strength when 1 began to give themVlnol. I proved that Vinol is a splendid tonic lor delicate ehildrea.** — MRS. C. ALLEN, New Bedford. Mass. VINOL QUICKLY CURES A COLD AND STOPS A COUGH YOUK MONEY BACK IF VINOL FAILS TO HELP YOU » John M. Klein, Druggist, Waiterboro, S. 1. Yon cftn get Vinol at the Leading Drag Store in everyTown and City in this State FARMING AND TEMPERANCE. Stokec. Feb. 6; Special;—Fanning is jnst as honorable as an j vocation in life. Every person is dependent on the farm for a living. I am glad that I live on the farm. Christiuas is the time that most boys look ahead lor a good time. They get their whiskey and drink and spree around, taking no thought of what this day is celebrated for. This day should be kept more sacred than any other day in the year except it be Easter, for this is the Birthday of Christ, and we ought to be more careful as to how we spend it. It is very unbecoming for anybody to drink whiskey at any time. This awful curse of drink a ill take away the beauty and strength of your body; cause your best triends to forsake yon; make your home dark and un comfortable; bring trouble upon your mother and sisters and yourself also. Many boys and young men start to church or some other public gath- ering with a bottle in one pocket and a pistol in the other, set their hats on one side, taking both sides of the road or going in the church stagger ing from one side of the aisle to the other. These boys expect to accom pany some young lady home from church. Boys, a nioe girl ought not to associate with you but ought to shun your company. Don’t you think so too? *A Country Girl. PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION VERY LOW ROUND TRIP RATES TO WASHINGTON, D. C. VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY Account Presidential Inauguration the Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets to Washington, D. C. from all points at greatly reduced rates. Tickets to be on sale Feb ruary 26th and March 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1909, good to leave Washington returning not later than midnight of March 8th, 1909. Round trip rates from principal points as follows: For detailed information, of regular and special ticket agents or address, J. L. Meek, Assistant Gen. Pas. Agt. Atlanta, Ga. sleeping car reservations, schedules trains, apply to Southern Railway J. C. Lusk, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. EWSHS-WE. The Army officers are eager for a new Preeidental deal feel ing aMnred that Mr. Taft hat too much contideration for the horse to set them any gait for the physical endurance tests. Abbeville $16.25 Greenwood $15.80 Anderson 16.10 Lancaster l 3-75 Blacksburg 13-75 Orangeburg *5-85 Camden 14.05 Rock Hill 1305 Charleston 16.40 Spartanborg 14.65 Columbia - i5-°5 Sumter 14.50 Greenville A* *5-55 Yorkville 13.60 Bow Lincoln ^ Was Abused I80S—TFe Lincoln C?nt^Hary—ISOS | By JAMFS A. EDGERTON [Copyright. 1!W. r>y A-netican 1‘res* Asso ciation. | [ n ~r\ fT ha * boon said 1 ■ . g that the most L . fruitful apple *r READY TO MEET DEMANDS The Assassmaticn of Lincoln By JANES A. EDGLRTON (Copyrtcht •TE* ANGEI.S HWEAU- IHO I AH RIGHT.” HE KFSENTLU HAVING A Gl'ARD. tree ha* the most cIuIni under It. By this standard Abraham Lin coln wua a fruit ful tree. He was more profusely vilifed. belittled and lied uhout than almost any man of our time. “Ape” was one of the mildest and most amla Me of the names he was called. Many of them were unprintable and hence mer cifully have been forgotten. lie was even abused by his own par ty, among his o w 11 generals and iu his own cabinet. In no way did he reveal his greatness more than by the forgiving manner In which he treated Ills maligners. He looked at this misrepresentation like a philosopher. At one time there was a blunder In the southwest, which was charged to the president. An offi cer who knew that the blame belonged on other shoulders was one day visit ing the White House and mentioned the matter. He asked if he had not la-tter state the facts as he knew them to l*e. “Oh, no,” replied Lincoln, "at least not now. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me. this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how. the very best I can. and I mean to keep on do ing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, w hat is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.” Among the nn*8t virulent critics of the president was the Chicago Times. A visitor once appealed to Lincoln to suppress the paper on the ground that it was op!>oslng the war and aiding the enemy. “I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people." replied Mr. Lincoln. “Nothing but the very sternest neces sity can ever Justify that. A govern ment had l»etter go to the very extreme of toleration than to do anght that can l>e construed into an Interference with or to jeopardize in any degree the com mon rights of its citizens.” Examples of his overlooking hostile criticisms were Innumerable. Secre tary Stanton was not the only malign er the president appointed to a position of trust. Those who had vilified him one year were accepted as supporters the next. ”1 choose always to make my political startute of limitations a short one,” he said. Despite the calumny heaped on him in his lifetime, Mr. Lincoln has fared much better at the hands of posterity than have most of the great souls that have uplifted and blessOl the race. Prance never has dons justice to Etienne Marcel, who was the forerun ner of the French revolution more than 400 years before the beginning of that human earthquake. Although Joan of Arc saved Prance and was burned for it in 1431, it was less than a century ago that she received general recognl tion, even In the land she died to pre serve. Girolamo Savonarola preached repub- greatness. The cowardly assassin that Ucanlsm. purity and religious liberty , leaked into his box and shot him 1909. by American Press Asso ciation.! E still stone our proph ets. We do not literally shy rocks at them in these days, but pelt them with bullets or with adjectives quite as hard. Woe to the man who! tries to help us onward, for we repay his love and service with hatred and revil ing and usually wind up by mur- j dering him in cold blood. Then we try to make up for our base Ingratitude by praising him aft er he is dead and writing his name iu stone, ready to repeat otir outrageous treatment of him on the next great soul that comes to help us up the path through the ages. Lincoln's assassination had been threatened from the moment of his nomination for the presidency. The only wonder Is that It was averted un til the close of the war. While he paid little or no attention to the menacing hints that came In every mail, his many private and public references to the subject show that he expected a tragic death. He often jokingly said that he was a physical -coward, yet no man ever showed higher bravery or greater un consciousness of danger. When at tlje front during u battle he needlessly ex- IMised himself. He resented having a guard placed about him and never rest ed until it was removed. He went alsmt Washington unattended at all hours of the day and night, and, while his own utterances showed that he was fully alive to the dangers, he never made any provision against them. “If they kill me.” be said philosoph ically, "the next man will lie just as bad for them, and in a country like this, where our habits are simple and must tie. assassination is always |K>ssi- ble and will come If they are deter mined upon it.*' The hour the blow was struck could not have been more exactly timed if it had been arranged from all eternity The war was ending. At the Inst cabinet meeting, held on the very day of the assassination. General Grant was present, expecting news of Johnstou's surrender, the last great act of the con flict. On the same afternoon the presi dent went driving with Mrs. Lincoln, who said she bad never seen him so happy. Upon her mentioning this fact be remarked, “And well 1 may feel so, Mary, for 1 consider this day ttmt the war has come to a cloee.” It was not quite at a close. His own death *as to be the last act of the gi gantic drama. That would end slavery and disunion forever, past the power of any man to revive. The book would be shat sod sealed with bis own blood. No man could ever reopen it and turn back Its pages again. Perhaps never in the world's history has grief been more universal and pro found than at ITesldent Lincoln’s death. This man ha^ the heart of the common people. To the private sol dier he was a father, to the negnfls liberator, to the nation a savior, to the lowly man of every clime s broth er. ilia death revealed hla supreme In Florence and was executed for lr In' 1408. yet It has been In only compara tively recent times that the world has begun to take Savonarola’s true meas ure. Gaspnrd de Coligny. one of the pur est souls in French history, led the Huguenots in a religious revolution and fell In the infamous St. Bartholo mew’s day massacre in 1572. yet poor Coligny has scarcely been rated at his true worth even to this day. Oliver Cromwell, the forerunner of modern democracy and of civil and re ligious liberty, died in 1658, yet npt till comparatively recent times has his name been rescued from the malignant lies that were heaped upon It The world yet has to do justice to Crom well. Thomas Paine, who died the very year Lincoln was born, the real author of the Declaration of Independence and the apostle of liberty In three lands. Is still misrepreeented, hated and reviled for the good be did. Yet the day will come when Paine will be placed aa high as be has been dragged low. tbs right Is Compared with coin’s recognltioa has bean swift and triumphant Indeed, it began the next day after Ms tragfe death. Poor, In sane. deluded Booth thought ho otrlklng down Lincoln, hat aa a tar of tact ha strnch dowi traducew. stopped the Uoo of and crowned th the martyr*! halo. from behind In reality shot rebellion and calumny to death, but never harm ed Abraham Lincoln. He was secure in the world’s heart forever. Hla work was done. The Union was saved and slav ery was ended. Government **of the people, for the people and by the peo ple” bad been vindicated and perpetu ated. One more stone had been lifted into place In the temple of democracy. As to the fate of the assassin and of the other conspirators, why speak at all? Nothing can be gained by reviving that painful epi sode now. That there was a con spiracy there can be no doubt, and that substantial justice was done seems to bo the consensus of the world's opinion. The only regret in connoctloo with it all lo that a woman should have been exe cuted. Lincoln’s life was so mer ciful and chari table, be wo fre quently protect ed the Weak, ho hearkened so of ten to the cries of th# mother SHOT HIM FROM BK- ronx heart, that the fate of Mrs. Bnrratt aa unfitting accompaniment In ttfeag of hie own tragic death, of vengeance or harahnom has iron in tbs ohadotra at IRt aa# af Uanshi’s pathway. Our Business last year was most Satisfactory, and we are prepared now to meet the growing demands upon us in every line of General Merchandise. Let us see you about your business this year. 1 HYRNE'S STORE. FROM AFRICA- Berkley, East Cape Colony, South Africa, Oct. 17, 190ft. The Rock Hill Buggy Co., Rock Hill, S, C. Dear Sirs: Having in use one of your spiders, I am Informing you, although our roads in this county are very rough, this spider has done excellent wt>rk. Having a fair offer for this spider, I would not like to part with it, unless I can get one of the same type, Therefore I am writing you direct, — Yours faithfully, (Signed) Rich. Katzenstein. In the hill country of Africa, where the roads are rough, they send to Rock Hill, S. C., for their buggies. Why? Because they have been using them for years and know that we build them right. THE fteeK HILL BUGGY COMPANY “A LITTLE HIGHER IN PRICE, BUT—” Rock Hill, South Carolina. A WICHMAN & SON, AGENTS. VERY LOW RATES TO NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE, PENSACOLA AND BIR MINGHAM, VIA Account Mardi Gras Celebrations the Southern Railway an nounces very low round trip excursion rates to New Orleans, La., Mobile, Aia, and Pensacola, Fla. Tickets will be sold February 17th to 22nd, limited for return up to and including, but not later than midnight, March 1st, 1909. By depositing ticket at New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, and paying fee of $1.00, tickets will be extended until March !3h, 1909. TO BIRMINGHAM, ALA. « ' f'..' ■ - _ '1 Account Laymen*s Missionary Movement, Presbyterian Church in the United States Birmingham, Ala, very low round trip rates have been authorized, tickets to be sold Feb ruary 14th and 15th, good to leave Birmingham returning not later than midnight of February 20th, 1909. Tor rates, schedules and detailed information, apply to Southern Railway ticket agents or address, J. L. Meek, J. C Lusk. ‘ Assistant Gen. Pas. Agt Division Pas. Agent • Atlanta, Ga. ° Charleston, S 0 ,« •*