Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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To ilK We take this m< C. H. Milhous ii stand. We war awaits you here used in compoui i Mat Phone 76 SANTUC 1 Santuc.Nov. <5.?How d'ye do! The cat has not come back, but I have. . feel like a truant. I feel a little f ashamed. I feel very rusty. I feel some bashful. I am a derelict. I guess I am very nearly forgotten. When the busy season is on (and that ( is very nearly all of the time with me) I have not much time to get up news or whatever one might call it. Then the weather is hot and nights are short, but they are being reversed f now and perhaps I can do better if t laziness does not become chronic?but P my business is in a little farm about t two miles out, and early in the morn- s ing I must needs gets off, and it is t' rather late when I get back. I have n done the best I could do,?no, but I 11 l^nturKf f Urt .? 4- * l?? * - ? ? *? " vnui^iib tuv ucnt ai llIC 111111% U> I11UKV, * and have made, a crop, but failed the ? worst I ever failed at that job, and has consequently labored hard for no tl pay. This fall I have had an extra burden, as about every negro in the settlement went over to Broad river t to work on the rebuilding of the dirt 15 dam. and I had to do all of the work ' that the hands we once had, as they, n too, simply quit their crops, and so, there. f' I did "dress up" to again start "vis- v iting" some time ago, but mother died, u which sad event to me occurred Oct. * 11th, and I have been lonesome, very * ' lonesome, and I feel it still growing f on me; even after a lapse of about n a month. I do not hear her voice ? when I come in at any time. The v house is dark and desolate when I get a in. When the lights are lighted, there is a vacant chair. 1 do not hear her ii call during the night for some little s assistance any more. I wish I could. r She was past her three score and ten, t and feeble and childish, but, I miss t her. I came near saying that I did I what I could, but I did not. I see it r now. It is too late. I wish I had ( done more. We had planned for much c more comfort for the winter, for more t safety when fire time came; we knew 11 she could not last manv vnoro t ,, J IllWIt, but, O God, if I had known the time r was so near?hut I pray the Lord v will forgive my shortcomings and I neglect. She was sick less than 24 a hours, and the end came as if she v was simply falling asleep. She was. 1; I did not see the place where the train flagman had his legs cut off" here, I for several days, hut men who did. a end 'lid not see the man even, said it (' was horrible, the human blood, scraps of flesh and hones, and the rail bloody for ten or twelve feet. The Times c gave a notice of the accident, so I I can add no more ;only that we often v read of like accidents, but when one n is right at our door, we more forcibly v see the horror of them. ' Some witches came to see us one r night last week. Let me see; yes, it was Oct. 81st. A great knocking at f1 the front door was an announcement. ^ Going to the door and opening it, a there stood on the piazza four figures, with some sort of weird head dress ^ and hair down. I was taken a little ? off my feet, as it were, for I thought n them a group of Gypsy fortune tellers, and T said. "Good evening." I 11 did not wish to be bothered with any ] ? Gypsy fortune tellers, but they would | K mu njjeah, omy oowed and scraped. I.iyht dawned on me then, and I knew e if was some twirls up to playiny jokes ^ or nranks. so T called back to my J'' brothers that the ghosts had come and ! d told them to "come and see who have i * ' come to see you." The "witches" c?m<> | into the house, bowed and flourished r! abound some, and then took their do- ? paiture. Y/e tried to say soniHhin.* to make then Hryh, and I coul 1 Pear ?! them stifling the lauyh?they enme " near breaking anyway. I believe they n had to hurry away to keep fromj^' lautrhinsr out. And 1 never thought j P of Hallowe'en until after they hadj"1 yone (I am not much for society nr that's why). 1 tried to think of something "appropriate" to say, but (T they did flustrate me at first. I have tl kicked mvself twice since for not be- tt iner Gentlemanly enough to go and la help one "little witch" down the cj st ens. If I had thought of Hallowe'en oi end when they come in had locked the tl door and put the key in my pocket I di would have had more fun. Wish I ti had asked them to "call again." They ai were all pretty girls?if they had "?s not been they would not be Santuc ta girls. They would have had to come m from Union, or Jonesville, or Lock- fc hart Junction, or Kelton, or Oakland, gi eh ? Hey Denver. k< A - : Peopl 3thod of informing 1 the Milhous Druj it you to make thii . Your prescripti riding. JVlorc NTO SIGNS OF EARLY PEACE 'OUR OR FIVE YEARS MORE OF EUROPEAN WAR NOW DECLARED INEVITABLE. lermans Admittedly Are Anxious for the End But Are Demanding Creditable Terms. New York, Nov. G.?Nowhere in England, France or Germany is there he slightest evidence yet of an aproaching end of the war. In no counry is there any indication that the truggle cfm be terminated within he next two years. There are inumerable indications that the end is luch further off. Lord Northeliffe, who more often probably than any ther man has correctly forecasted he war's development, is now urging he British to make no calculations ased upon peace within five years. Although pushing their offensive on he Somme with great vigor the Brit>h land forces will not have attained nil fighting strength before next sumier. The idea current in Germany hat France is too nearly exhausted or further dangerous offensive is unwarranted ODtimism. Tho actual firr res of the Somme drive where the 'rench (though only called on to proect the right wing of the British ofensive force) have actually taken lore ground and more prisoners han the British, is indicative of irhat the French have in reserve. So lso the new thrust at Verdun. On the other hand, the idea current n the allied c<}untiies the Germany ees either defeat or exhaustion as a lear menace is quite without justificaion. Germany wants peace?admitedly wants it badly. The French and Jritish public has misunderstood and nisconstrued this. The fact is that Jermany wants peace now, not beause she believes herself defeated, >ut because she thinks she is nearer a nilitary victory than she or any of he belligerents will again come. Gernans admits that they are surfeited vith war* but insist that France and lussia are equally so. They say that ,t the present rate on the Somme advance, in time and casualties, Engand's allies will be bankrupt before the great push" can reach the thine. Germans ridicule the idea that my offensive can penetrate the Rhine lefenses. Changes in Capitals. P'ighteen months have worked great hanges in the belligerent capitals, 'aris changed least during the interal?is brighter, gayer and a shade learer her normal, even though the /ar is still the all-engrossing idea, terlin has become almost somber. A ather noisv and exaggerated confience has given place to a determinaion truly grim. The food situation, f not working the havoc with stomchs that the allies would like to beeve, is having its effect on nerves, 'he difficulty is not so much scarcity f food as soaring of prices and mootony of diet. Everywhere the quesion is asked, "When is peace comig?"?but nowhere is there evidence f fear or voiced dissatisfaction with overnment or army. When peace is talked of by the avrage German it is a peace with full onor to Germany^ Tt is v> pea^e credible to the Germany that has conuered Belgium, Poland, Serbia and tie richest districts of northern 'ranee; the Germany which is overunning Rumania and which even in war of attrition is still adding to s captured terrtory. The peace opnlv striven for by Germany is a far ifferent thing (involving as it does a estoration of the status quo ante as le limit of concessional from the only eace evpr mentioned in Paris or I.onon?a peace to be dictated to Gerlany. But it is Ixindon that has underone the greatest transformation. In >? fall lOU C*? ?i ; ?1 ?> uic r-iiiffiisnrnan was liking t^libily ?f "business as usual:" ist spring he was rather bored beiuse the war would probably drat? /er into 1910, and was chafing under >e upfcet of business routine. Tojy there is no business and no roune in England except the business >d routine of making war. Peace < a topic of conversation is almost iboo. More men, more munitions, lore money. Release the eligibles >r military service; perfect the ornnization behind the battle line and sep the hands of the politicians off e ojjjnj the Citizens of Uni I Co. and will condu s drug store your di ons filled here only ? t I jan ar . General Sr Douglas Haig! These are the sole topics of the moment. John Rllll in Farnaat After two years of muddling, stumbling and blundering, the British nation is finally in the war clear up to John Bull's eyebrows. The zest for war is evidenced in Ltondon today is only comparable with that today wave of patriotic fervor which was Berlin's in the autumn of 1914. Two years of paying the staggering price of modern land fighting, at a rate which England, because of her slow mobilization, has not yet paid, has robbed Germany of this zest?as it has France in a lesser measure. It remains to be seen what effect two years of full participation will have on the British. Involved in the situation developed in England and Germany are two powerful factors which combined seemed to blight all possibilities of an early peace. Neither of these factors is fully understood by the people of the opposing nation. Only a few of the leaders have sensed them. These factors are, first, England's determination to fight until the allies can dictate a peace which wUl not only eliminate the menace of German militia-ism, hut which will also eliminate the menace of German commercialism; and, secondary, Germany's determination, and apparent ability, to maintain a successful defensive indefinitely ?meanwhile hoping t(Talienate one or more of the allies or to see one or more of them break under the milit or financial strain. . ^ German leaders apparently entirely underestimate the marvelous determination with which the British nation has been fired, a determination which must be seen first hand to be understood. Thev are unable to enm prehend that Englishmen fully understand. and have agreed to pay whatever price is necessary to accomplish the knockout of Germany. Neither is there in Germany any appreciable realization of the extent to which the British are preparing to go in their peace demands. On the other hand, few persons in England have guessed or appreciate Germany's defensive strength, and the false impression is general that Germany's peace desires are predicted on fear. Germany will consider no peace now at any terms the allies would ever mention because what the allies want now is not peace, but Germany broken. It will take years of more severe punishment than has yet been inflicted by the allies before any such peace can be forced on Germany. On the other hand, Germany's only possible chanje of a peace on terms even approaching those with which she is now angling depends upon her ability to hold her enemies at bay until financial ruin foices a mmnrn mise. Neither condition promises much for an early peace. EAT BIG MEALS! NO SOUR, ACID STOMACH, INDIGESTION OR GAS "Pape'a Diapepain" is Quickest, Surest Stomach Relief Known. Try It! Time it! Pape's Diapepsin will digest anything you eat and overcome a sour, gassy or out-of-order stomach surely within five minutes. If your meals don't fit comfortably, or what you eat lies like a lump of lead in your stomach, or if you have heartburn, that is a sign of indigestion. Get from your pharmacist a fiftycent case of Pape's Diapepsin and take a dose just as soon as you can. There will be no sour risings, no belching of undigested food mixed with acid, no J stomach gas or heartburn, fullness! or heavy feeling in the stomach, nau-1 I sea. oeniutating headaches, dizziness or intestinal grioing. This will all go. and, besides, there will be no sour food left over in the stomach to poison your breath with nauseous odors. Rape's Diapepsin is a certain cure for out-of-order stomachs, because it* takes hold of your food and digests it just the same as if your stomach wasn't there. Relief in five minutes from all stomach misery is waiting for you at any drug store. . j These large fifty-cent cases contain enough "Pape's Diapepsin" to keep the entire family free from stomach 1 disorders and indigestion for many months. It belongs in your home. ion Coiro on County that we h ct a first class and ug store, and you by Graduate Licen, ? ? id Sar L JONES VIM-R In < k Jonesville, Nov. 7.?For the last 45 years the seventh day of November has been an eventful day in my life. ? On the night of Nov. 7th, 1871, just after dark I saddled my horse and rode away in the darkness towards Georgia, where I was married not quite two years before. I had settled on my farm near my father's ^ home near Brown's Creek and mv v"' little home was a heaven on earth to mo and my wife ,we had never stayed apart but one night since our f?1 marriaee up to this time. The Ku Klux Klan had done much bloodv s?' work in our county during the previ- 1 ous year and the United States government had taken up the matter and a were prosecuting many men for con- ? spiracy. A company of cavalrymen a had just been sent to Union with a United States commissioner and a ?n denuty marshal to hunt down and ar- ln' rest men who were accused of being Ku Klux. A negro man who Had lived *>e with me previous to the Ku Klux w' raids, went before the commissioner do and swore out a warrant against me ha for being in a raid that was made y? on the jail at Union when eight ne- 1?* groes were taken out and lynched. This was a serious charge but upon 9r my honor and my oath, too, I was trj innocent of the charge. I stayed at = home the night of the raid and was not' outside of my yard, but a negro's word at that time before th? court was taken before ?he wh'tn mart's word oh oath, so I thought best to take refuge in other parts of the country and my wife soon joined me at her father's home at Woodstock. Ga., in which community we staved for fourteen months and finalb' th? I nrosecutions ceased and the United States soldiers were removed and all got quiet we returned to our home again. The negro who reported me has been dead many years and has gone to answer for his false swearing against the innocent. The weather for some time has been ideal Indian summer weather and the cotton has been much improved by it. The late bolls are maturing and opening nicely. The dust is very annoying as the automobiles keep it stirred up all" the time. The Wallace mills are building a large nice school house near their mill and they will install a moving picture show in the building for the comfort and convenience of their employes, though open to all the people. The congregation of the first colored church and their pastor got into a muddle and feeling ran pretty high for awhile and finally the church bought out the pastor and told him to get and he got out. There was a small blaze in our town Saturday evening. The top of a dwelling house caught fire around the chimney about 7 o'clock. A fire was made in the fireplace and the soot had = gathered in the chimney which caught fire and some of it fell on the dry shingles and set the roof on fire, but the fire was soon discovered and kuickly put out. The house is owned by Mrs. Cyntha Horn and is located on Harris street. The Countv Sunday School conven-I tinn u/acj v-ia l-~? ' iiciu ucir ii*?u i nursnay ?nd Friday at the Methodist church. The attendance was small, but the convention was a Rood one. Telephone. Hair r? * 1 ILUDKANMDtm hit mk a/ pli'iur* to show h?.* Ill tf I tun looks after Utiotf 9B. m I CXKLK9CTO vj* &. n ni?w*y C4*r*** ^ v J r. y it i? t^nty-two IucLm . j i Don't be fooled ell 1 f 3 your life by using some 0f ( ' ' '? * fake preparation which ... claims to Straighten kinky hair. Yon have till to have hair before it can be straightened. th< EXELENTO Sffl! Th j ia n Hr.ir Cro-var wliu-h fw-Jn tlinsralp and a(' 1 rostsof thohci.-a>iJmuk?s thohairerow. JQ] andyooeao aeatl>a rssultsby nalnssar- ... R eral time*. It elrana dandruff and Stop* <m U Falling Ha? atonco. It Imtm har? h,at ub- th< born, nappy hair soft and silky. Pries 2Bo by mail. on ncript of stamp* ar coin. *M I agents wanted everywhkmk out H WrlU F*r rir^Uilsrt | KXtUMTO MKPtCIMK CO- AtUmt*. ?. \ % \ rty-Gre / ave purchased the i reliable drug busir may rest assured tl sed Druggists. Onl n I Prompt 1 IRLS! GIRLS! TRY IT! I) STOP DANDRUFF AND || BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR air Stops Falling Out and Gets 1^ Thick, Wavy, Strong and ^ Beautiful. n Your hrfir becomes light, wavy, fluf- || , abundant and appears as soft, lus- B >us and beautiful as a young girl's 9 ter a "Danderine hair cleanse." Just ^ ' / this?moisten a cloth with a little 9 1 mderine and carefully draw it *1. ' rough your hair, taking one small || ' and at a time. This will cleanse 3 , e hair of dust, dirt and excessive 9 \ and in just a few moments you ' ve doubled the beauty of your hair. , Besides beautifying the hair at once, ^ i inderine dissolves every particle of ^ ndruff; cleanses, purifies and invig- I j ates the scalp, forever stopping itch- ^ I X and falling hair. ^ , But what will please you most will 5 j after a few weeks' use' when you 1 11 actually see new hair?fine and I wny at first?yes?but really new I ir growing all over the scalp. If > u care for pretty, soft hair and ;s of it surely get a 25-cent bottle Knowlton's Danderine from any ^ uggist or toilet counter, and just ,lurr ? it. .Mai A Scant or aRi " WH ^ leant tablespoe actly as far as ipoon of a cheaj only half as muc *? positively gui using an entire directed, you are with its econom; grocer, on your return your mone mium cataloguemZM The Reily-Taylor C< |S\ For Win Ml I 1 V \\ You need a reel tonic. Mi J V\ the troable. Ut that tonic MtI I Jt catarrhal conditions, and y< '% I acute catarrh; it may bee I fluently becomes systemic, ii M tinai tract am well aa the n Jk PERUNA IS It clears away the was and tones up the system, i www in catarrh by thousands o tell tiie world of their relle! al 3 SjS^jA\\\M mw.ninail.uuMwi I it /fur A U| lUUXUSNWUMOIIIWMI I )|V( UCj I I out \j*^M lu T~*T~?J ?!.T, ^ Tt I PORT A NT ANNOUNCEMENT tair MADE TO SMOKERS exc unc gli Quality of San Felice Cigars adv Maintained. Now Sell at 5c avo Straight. 01 est 1 Owing to the greatly increased cost quality tobaccos, in fact everyng pertaining to high, grade cigars, ; makers of the San Felice cigar, Cra e Deisel-Wemmer Company, have vanced the selling price to the bbers and Dealers, and henceforth S s cigar will positively be sold to Die i consumer at 5 cents straight in- We: iad of six for a quarter as previ- san sly. witl The SAN FELICE is national in its {step pe and character, having justly at- witl / cling nterest of Mr. less at the old lat a welcome y pure drugs ton Delivery 'I elicate Woman ; Truly Grated or Stella Vitae la Mrs. Paralee Frazier, of Long- w yiew, Tex., who hud been in bad K health lor two years, writes this E heartfelt letter in behalf of this ^ great preparation for women. b "I havo taken a few bottles of STELLA H VITA E and am now almost well from a ^ ontr sl^Ke of sickness. I cannot say too Ik nu--h for this wonderful medicine. I had B :akun other fomale mod icines for two years I wit h no (rood results. Iam truly srrateful for the good Stella Vitaehandone for me." w MUS. PAR ALEE FRAZIER. STELLA V1TAE is (guaranteed. ^ [f you are not benefited with the ^ Trst bottle, your money back if B /ou want it. Do not delay. Begin I taking it now. At your dealers' ^ n $1 bottles. THACHER MEDICINE CO.. ' CHATTANOOGA. TENN. b liss Elmira de Graffenreid of Colbia spent the week-end with Miss y Perrin on E. Main street. 11 Tablespoon 11CH? , n of Luiwnne goes ex- '00 a big heaping table- 00 3er coffee, for you use 00 h of Luxianne. That's W/.0. aranteed that if, after i can of Luxianne as i not entirely satisfied 0!& ' and goodness, your say-so, will gladly y. Write for our pre00 i MM* COFFEE |? iter Colds Strength is required to overcome be one tbat ia specially valuable in >u ran conquer the cold. A cold is umc chronic. Chronic catarrh frenvolving the stomach iiA the inteeose or threat. It means stagnation. INV1GORATION te matter, dispels the Inflammation 'or forty-five years it has been used f grateful sufferers, who willingly f. Peruna's long history of helpfulis is the best evidence that it is dt vmi ahnulfl tiilffl. .hiuid or tablet form for your eonlience. lannlln l? the Ideal laxative and ;r tonie. In tablet form it ia delliia to take, mild and effective, withunpleaaant effeets, and win not m h habit. I.lquld, 85c and $1.00; leta, 10c and 25c. IE PERUNA CO., Coluibua.O. ted this eminence through its unelled excellence. To maintain this iqualed standard of quality, the ance in question is absolutely unidahle. Tlje generous support of men using quality cigars is earny desired. DECAPITATE!) HER NIECE. zy Woman Severe Head of Sleeping Child. taunton, Va., Nov. 7.?Miss Myrtle e, a 24-year-old patient in the stern State Hospital for the Ine, decapitated her 8-year-old niece h an axe today while the child it. She was spending a furlough h her sister, the child's mother. / i