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Roosevelt. Taft and Wilson Reveal
TbemsolYce.
iTrom the World'a Work.)
Thia article ia Inrentionally a mere
collection of personal Impreaaiona; it
is confesaedly subjective. I am going,
la conclusion, to set down here recol?
lections of three evenings, one with
each of the rivals, and perhaps the
most agreeable hours I ever spent
with them. They are not to be de?
scribed In detail, but of the general
spirit of each occasion 1 may apeak:
The first *ae with Mr. Roosevelt,
soon after the close of hla Presiden?
tial term and near he end of the voy?
age on the Hamburg, when he was
enjoying hit first opportunity in many
yearn of rest and retrospect. The ship
had paaaed Gibraltar and entered the
Mediterranean; we were atearning to?
ward suneet. along the coast of Spain.
1 Joined Mr. Roosevelt for a walk on
deck.
We gssed together at the purple
headlands, overhung b> glittering
snow peaks of the Sierra Nevad a. Mr.
Roosevelt a spirits rose in aober ele?
vation hi he gased a* the land which
had been the th? ..re of the long
?trusg.? between Moor and Christian,
and turned from that to look down
at the sea fabled since earliest his?
tory began. He talked of the Hellenic
advent urer* who had sailed out the
Pillars of Hercules, of the ghostly
fleets of succesalve generations that
had glimpsed the splendid panorama
of the shorea?galleys of Phoenicians,
transports of Iberians going to the
Punic wars?down to the magnificent
modern armadas whose prowa had
(ut the Indigo witers.
It was a delightful hour, for Mr.
Hooecvelt haa a vivid martial and ro?
mantic imagination. Rut his talk whs
all of expeditions of war. descents on
the coast, burning cities, pirates, he
rok) forays, actions at sea. This I
will t\y, that he had to bi reminded
that the blgg> H licet that ever sailed
theae waters?a fleet at the sight of
which Olaon would have swooned
and Vllleneuve stared, and Nelson
been confounded-~had b?-en there by
hla own orders. I reminded Mr.
Roosevelt of that, and he stopped in
hla walk and kSOfced 9MM CVef the r.?11
and hack again, and broke Into a grin
and ? ? buckle and exclaimed:
"Ry Georg?', thai was me. wasn't
If
And then he woke to real enthu?
siasm and told with uplifted (1st and
Hashing gftj what that Beel WOOld
hau. .1 Tu- If it had ever bad a ? hanc??,
by Qejorgjel
Th .?cond was a late autumn af
tern? on at Reverly-t?> -thc-S? a. It
was on the eve of the SMg t on o|
the swtjgdfjf wades' Pfeaenent Tafi
gajsgej . a-t war Ry hard labor Mr.
Taft had got ahead of his work in
thing ? Set unusual for him. it may be
suld * and had an hotjf or two for
reo: II?* used It sitting bsfof ? tb?
d>t?. <?* m his sandy and meditating
out hmd on th ? subject that real!) I
In* ir hl? heart the prospect of
international peace.
I asj tb?- sjgdj ggaagsyy, Pot ss
hour UM l'r? hi.I? nt SOltlOQtth*td, it
would ha\> startled SeSsSSrvutlVS p i
gsgfli gsjgdd Ihey have heard him.
Th?r. was no length '<? which the
head 't th.- n item w..s unwilling to
go to ivold bloody contllct; no h ngth.
I m?nn. In the dtfCCttOg Ol SObStltUt?
log arbitration f<?r War. There was
no gt orn which the tongue of man
can gttSf that gsj did not pour out
up?>n Ihr ? ige. chlidlsh f".!> of
at.iraiir g men lip te she* t ? < ich
other lib*1 the go\?-riioM ol t .i
SjSjSJgffffSg have bang unable to sgTet
That faj all. Mr. Taft s thoughts in
his svsnfng b'oir innmed ie i.
with i h.? .t of tonvletfon "f whl
those who th. not know him WOUtd
h er believed him aagable, hurling hi
ggdtanes in'?? ins feet el ins hollow
popular s?r?tim?i,t that DS SSfl f'-i 11
trh.ttsni Mr Tuft Inlhed Of pence,
Mr. R?m?sev?lt. OS am.tb r SVsning
Wille) Itig I he son Is'" doWg bad bab
l.lnl of h itt I. I
Th? ti.ir i ssens was ii svenlng with
w.iron Wllsni d Mis sttng< nt
S??a Girt There had t.n hi?rii iporl
ut dinner on the hroud trellised piazza,
and Mrs. Wilson and her eldest daugh?
ter had been laughingly bundled Into
the motor ear for an evening's enter?
tainment at Spring I*ake, a mile or
two up the coast. Somehow a dif?
ferent mood fell as we who were left
sat down In the gathering twilight In
the big hall. There had been a dis?
puted question at dinner, and Miss
Jessie Wilson had slipped away and
brought back the volume In order to
verify it. It lay on the table now, an
anthology of verse? not Palgrave's
nor any that I know?and Mr. Wil?
son took It up and fingered it loveingly j
The other daughter. Miss Eleanor,
went over and perched on the arm of
his chair, and in a moment he was
reading bits of poetry, and soon we
were all swapping our favorites.
Everybody's favorites, I suppose
Mo v were?"Tlntern Abbey," "The
( de to a Oreclan I'm." and the rest,
favor passing gradually toward songs
of heroism like Matthew Arnold's
"Let the Long Contention Cease."
Arthur dough s "Say Not the Strug?
gle Naught Avalleth" and Edmund
Sill's "Opportunity." That, by the
way. Mr. Wilson confessed one of his
prime favorites; bo let it be set down
here for that reason and to point the
contrast that will appear In a mo
ment. Sill's verses run:
This I beheld or dreamed it in a
dream:
There spread a cloud of dust along
the plain.
And underneath the cloud, or in it.
raged
A furioue battle, and men yelled, and
swords
Shocked upon swords and sields. /
prince's banner
Wavered, then staggered backward.
hemmed by foes.
A craven hung along the battle's edge
And thought. "Had I sword of keener
steel?
The blue Made that the King's son
bears?but this
I'dunt thing!" he snapped and Mums
It from his hand,
And lowering crept away and left the
the held.
Then Can e th.- King's son?wounded.
sore bestead
And weaponless?und saw the broken
sword.
Hilt burled In the dry and trodden
sand.
And he ran and snatc hed It. ami. with
battle shout
Lifted afresh, he hewed the enemy
down,
And saved a great cause that heroic
day.
Now. Theodore Roosevelt reads
poetry sometimes and his favorite
happens also to be called "Oppor?
tunity." John J. Ingalls wrote it,
and during Mr. Roosevelt's Presiden
tal term a copy of it hung over the
mantel of the executive othee. Here
.1 is:
Master of human destinies am I,
Fame, love and fortune on my foot?
steps wait;
Cities and fields I walk; 1 penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing
by
11 ' el. the mart, and palace, soon or
late
! knock unbidden once at every gate.
If sleeping. WfclM?If feasting rise be
fore
1 turn SWny. It I* the hour of t?te.
And they who follow me reach everj
t .ile
Mortals desire, and COnSJUSf every
foe
nve death; but those who doubt or
hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury, an 1
n oe.
geek me in vain and needlessly Im?
plore,
I answer not. and I return ic? more.
l gubmil that the difference in tho
m >ral as well as In the artistic clevi
tlon i f those two ideas ol opportunity
's stsjnitl? snl ??f the contrasting nature
tl ?? n tO Whom they respectful!'
ippeal. Itut Mr, Wilson did not read
I kg real fuvorlte until the evening wa*
n?- and hedtttne bad come, T't,r:
his daughter* conspiring;* a volume of
WordnWOrth was produced, and WO
listened to "The Character of the Hap
pj Warrior." Being well nust the year
of sentiment I )el admit that I ha*,
seldom been so moved ss i was at the
ml Is words ?v th?\ W?l< nad #hat
ght,
Th *t Ihc r? ader fell an) emotion
would have been Imperceptible lo n
stranger, so controlled was hli voice
and his look. It was the recital by n
great soul of words well approved ol
the great souls of Ihc generation*
? nc< they tust were written u de
rtption t ? . eh it icti r of the tm?
...ion i. It w is impossible not to feel
Ibat ; ? was u description, In some
part . ahtn peculiarly apt and Intimate,
ol t in charaiter of tin reader - rev
elation of htmseii truer than an) ht
could otherwise potailbl) ever hovi
. n. Tl r i" ? m Is lc?o Ions to
down here but here is ? hub of It
Who i Ml happy w irlol ? W ho i- h<
Thai ? ? ' ? man In arm* hould wl
In be? Tis he
Whose i on ? i Bhi d round h m In the
common trlfe
? >r mild coin erns ol ordin?r) life
\ ? inst nl Influence, u p< t ullai grace;
itui w ho, f he Ii call? d upon lo face
Some awful moment to which Heaven
has Joined
Great issues, good or find for human
kind,
i Is happy us a lover, aud attired
? With sudden brightness, like a man
inspired.
He who thus endowed as with a sense
And faculty for storm and turbulence,
Is yet a sould whose master-bias leans
To home-felt pleasures and to gentle
scenes,
Sweet images: which, whereso'er he
be,
Are at his heart.
I think it not at all a fanciful con
celt to believe that 1 have seen two
Presidents and one Pres;dent who Is
to be, In twllght self-revelations; one,
Of his ruling passion for contests of
physical stregth; the second, of his
extreme devotion to peaceful paths;
the third, of a natural gentleness
averse from strife and yet of a soul
capable of rising exultant to the
storm.
The Advance of the South.
Augusta Chronicle.
The priceless boon ol! bread pro?
vided for the nations has been due
largely to American brains and inge?
nuity In inventing machinery that
has enabled farmers to obtain four?
fold products from the soil and send
throughout the world something to
eat. Likewise to America Is due the
credit for the protection of raiment
and the South alone Is responsible for
this feature of national achievement.
Progress is cotton-growing has been
remarkable during the past half cen?
tury. In other days when farmers
devoted considerable time and atten?
tion to producing something to eat
they averaged only about three bales
of cotton per plow and so universal
Wag this view until everybody was
judged by the number of bales of cot?
ton they grew, for it was understood j
that thirty bales of cotton meant ten
plows and so on through the scale.
Time changed this arid eventually
one had to know how many plows
and hOW many hales of cotton was
mads In order to judge the ability of
the farmer. Later on quite tc
Cently?another change has been
made and now it is not the man who
grows so much cotton, or operates so
many plows, but rather do you make
or lose in farming. This Is a question
which every farmer should ask and
answer for himself. It Is obvious that
the South is making a vast sum of
money for the products of the oottor*
belt hold the balance of trade in Ca?
vor of thla great country. The boon,
of bread ao4 all the attendant bless
lags do not count for very much
when pitted, against the immense. Iitir
ports that are brought to us from
the rest of the world, but when we
place the value of exported cotton.
against the total the change puts us
on the right side of the. ledger, as it
were.
Without the remarkable achieve?
ments mads In labor-saving imple?
ments America could never haven
mads the wonderful strides in de
\? iopment that have been recorded and
nowadays the greatest territory of all.
the cotton belt, is Just being Opened!
up as ? possible grain-growing
tion, a? well as cotton-producing ter?
ritory. With the introduction
grain-growing on a large scale we
shall see great progress in the South.
While ths record already made hai
been remarkable and greater titan
that ever scored by any other sec?
tion of the country In ths world In a
like period of time still the beginning
is just In sight.
Improved farming implements will
i?e ths aauss af this advancement. The
labor situation In the South i: such
that it ?.au d?j nothing but retaj i pro?
gresi and modern methods must in
evitabl) come In order i"r the ad?
incement commensurate with re?
sources to be made. The progress of
the Middle West has been mote
largely due to improved farm ma?
chinery than to any other one cause
und th ? Introduction of such labor
saving devices has only been made i:i
the co.ton bell to any considerable
degree within the pasl decade and
aii who are conversant with the sit?
uation know that ths period covers
the time of real advancement In the
territory in question.
a study ol the conditions of this
country as compared with the rest of
the world demonstrates conclusivel)
that we are advancing on the right
line. The United states has only one
twent) fifth of the world's population
yet it produces thirty-one per cent
of ail the agricultural wealth of tin
World Still we are clamoring for
greater returns from the land, we
want more people to gel back to the
soil and we must have them because
the a'orld demands the products uf
tin poll 'i he South has a virtual
monopoly on c.aton for though we
have onlj the sm ill per? ? ntage of the
country's population in ihe cotton
belt, the Southern Slat, a yield half
of Ihe entire ? otton i rop of the world
Figures ore of the most stupendous
character when used in enumerating
Mb. yields of the various h ading
i \ mei i inn crops, corn < omlng iir I
I With *.'.T 7?l 000,000 bushel.-:, .otton In
I 19U, 1 5.69S.OO0 bales, hny IT 111
tons, wheat 656,000,000 bushels, oats
874.OOu.000 bushels. potatoes 282,
uoO.000 bushels, barley 146,000,000
bushels, and tobacco 800.000.0UO
pounds. Hay brought the most ex?
cessive price of any product in the
past season, the average price In the
cotton belt being in excess of $30 per
ton. At this figure and based on the
cost of production a hay farmer in
the South, using ordinary methods.,
would have doubled or trebled his in?
come over that of growing cotton.
With improved methods and im- j
proved machinery there is no doubt
but that the strides that have been
recorded in the South during the
past decade will be more than exceed?
ed In the next ten years and we can
look forward with certainty to ad?
vancement of the most stupendous
type. There is no other section of
the country that offers quite such
liberal opportunities and quite so
many advantages as the Augusta ter?
ritory. It will bo of interest to every
farmer and every business man in
this section to advocate and follow
the most approved methods and
thereby the value of tho farms will be
Increased, there will be notable im?
provement in trade and many other
achievements will bo made.
This Is the essential time to begin
an agitation in this direction and the
thorough co-operation of the people
at Interest In matters of this kind will
be hound to bring bountiful results in?
dividually and collectively.
The wrecked engine and cars of
the Atlanta Coast Line railroad .
which were in the wreck at Lone l
Star last Thursday passed through
the city Saturday on their way to the
gftopg, The engine was an almost to- J
tal wreck and the baggage, express
and mail cars are very/ badly toxn up.
Sweaters fop F.veryone.
Just right these chiMy mornings.
The assortment here w very large.
Priced from 50c up to $5.00. 15rad
ley sweaters are the best you know.
We sell them. Schwartz Bros.
Important, if True.
Dr. Lillian N. South If Said to have
discovered the fact that the housefly
(Muses Domestlca) is th* source of
the hookworm.
Dr. South is the State bacteriologist
of Kentucky and her researches have
been conducted in the State labora?
tory at Howling OreeBJ and the dis?
covery has been confirmed by Prof.
WTcllfte Rose of the Rockefeller In?
stitute at Washington, D. C. Professor j
Hose is the disbursing secretary of
the campaign .started for the eradica?
tion of the hookworm and he pro?
nounces it one of the most remarkable j
discoveries of th* BSBSw
Dr. South has found that the hOUSO? j
IIy carries the egg of the parasite
that causes the disease that create*
the Infection. The housefly has long,
been known to carry the germs of
typhoid, tuberculosis and other dis?
eases, but up to this time It has not
been suspected of propagating the
hookworm. Dr. South, while conduct?
ing her researches conceived the
idea that the fly carried the parasite
which was deposited under the skin
of the human victim.
Upon a microscopic examination, it
was developed that there were hun?
dreds of eggs and larvae on the ab
domen and feet of the tiles. Some of |
the eggs had already been hatched
and the infinitesimal worms which
reach a length of about an inch at
maturity, were plainly visible under j
the microscope. Professor Rose de
elnrsa that the work done by Dr. 1
South will accomplish more for the
permanent eradication of the "scourge I
of the South" than that of any other !
investigator in the field.
If other reasons were wanting for
exterminating the loathsome pests
this one should be amply sufficient.
Don't wait for a notitication from
the board of health to clean up your ;
premises but scour and purify every
nook and corner that might prove
catchall. for tilth and a breeding place
for flics. Remember, if you allow t
tilth to accumulate you imperil the
health and perhaps the lives, of >our
levee! ones to say nothing of your
<>wn. The housefly has been proven
o\.-r and o\er again to be s most pro
life source of disease and death but
it i .inno' exist without tilth.
Nature seems to have provided
man with more than the ordinary
antipathy in the case of the housefly
as a danger signal for his own pro?
tection as they ar?- at once the most
annoying of all insects and the most
disgusting. liven a fine horse will
make as much fuss over a gad fly buz?
zing around as he would over a rat
tlesnake for they are equally danger?
ous and instinct tells him so. although
one is insidious in his attacks and the
other warn? before he strikes. Swat
the fly until he is extinct as the dido
and keep your premises neat as a pin
and he won't Come buck,?Augusta
Chronicle.
Tin* lOsnOwns air all in Xow, Ladies
In silk, crepe* cha'.lies, flanneletts.
etc. Long and short; prices from 75c
up. Schwartz Bros.
The handiwork of man should be
exploited through the brain work of
men?join the commercial organiza?
tion and boost ye-ur business.
Let u* Fit You Pleafrte
In a pair of Wright and Peters
high class shoes. We want yon to get
acquainted ladiv*. Schwartz Bros.
FOR SALE?On* or two mirk cows
with young calves, kind and gentle.
Will be glad to show them to pros?
pective buyers. Also Berkshire
and graded pigs, lambs and kids.
Apply to E. W. Dabbs, Pineland
Farm, Mayetmlle, S. C.
FARMOGEI
Standard inoculation for legumes.
Endorsed by 19 Agricultural Colleges
and Experiment Stations.
IX M. BLAXnrVG.
Agvwt Sumtor Cotmty.
Here is a Fine Opportunity to Buy
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Thursday,
Friday and
Saturday
Z-*" ' * *?*? r-HA
The New
SUITS
and
COATS
in the Advance Styles.
They are worth a try
on.
FROM $10 TO $50.
We are going to give
10 per cent discount
on all Coats and Coat
Suits.
WHY?
Because we know people who
have nevi r bent in ^ur store will
come, learn the BIG X \LUtS we
give and so come again.
v
$9 Gets a $10 Suit
or Coat.
$18 Gets a $20 Suit
or Coat.
$36 Gets a $40 Su
or Coat.
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