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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-16

Sec. 8. Any person or persons car
rying on any or prosecuting any BUS
mess or occupation or running any
establishment named in this or pre-
ceding sections, without first having
taken out a license therefor, shall be
fined, except in cases where special
penalties are imposed, not less than
two dollars nor more than me hum
dred dollars, OF be imprisoned not
less than two days o more than
thirty days, for each and every day
such business is carried on without
such license. That no license shall be
sued for a less period than n year
(unless otherwise specified) dated
from the first day of the month in
which same is issued, and it shall be
the duty of the Clerk of Council to
see that licenses and fees are i'm
posed and paid, and to promptly re-
port any and all cases of failure to
do so.
Sec. 4. That for any business, &C.
cupation or profession not enumer-
ated in the foregoing sections, the Ii:
cense shall be regulated and imposed
by the City Council at any meeting
of the same.
Sec. S. The City Council hereby
reserves the right to refuse or re-
woke any license for any cause which
may seem to it just.
Sec. 6. That any firm, person OF
corporation making any false OF
fraudulent returns, where a return
is necessary or required under this
Ordinance, shall upon conviction be
fined not exceeding fifty dollars nor
less than five dollars, or be imprison-
ed not exceeding thirty days o less
than five days.
Sec. 7. That any person, firm or
corporation carrying on or prosecut-
ing any trade, BUSINESS, occupation
or profession, or running any estab-
lishment named in this Ordinance, or
upon which a license may hereafter
be imposed by the City Council, with
out first having taken out a license
therefor, shall be fined Except in
cases where special penalties are i'm
posed) not less than two dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars or be
imprisoned not less than two days
nor more than thirty days in the
county or city prison for each and
every day such business, occupation
or profession is carried on without
such license.
That this Ordinance shall go into
effect on the first day of November,
1917, and all persons, firms, corpor-
atoms or professions not conforming
to it's requirements shall be liable to
the penalties herein imposed from
and after last mentioned date.
Done in Council this 9th day of
October, 1917, and ratified under the
seal of the City of Abbeville, S. C.
T. G. PERRIN, C.. C. GAMBRELL,
City Clerk. Mayor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-16

caught. mapping again and you may
mark it down and %underscore it as
many times as you wish.
Soon be time for possum and
pumpkin custard. You may have our
part if you will give US the Eaters
and buttermilk and corn bread. Like
the old time religion, they r good
enough for me.
Leo Burton of the U. S. Navy,
has been on a visit to his old home.
He was on the water for 26 days
without seeing any land.
Let's not let 26 cent cotton give
US the big head, but try to keep our
equilibrium, for it will take that to
pay some of us out of debt.
The preachers as a rule, are paid
as we'll with 7 cents cotton as the
present price. Wait and see if it
isn't the truth with some of them.
I agree with you in regard ITO
Tillman. He has stood nobly by Mr..
Wilson and the government. He is
one of the greatest men South Caro-
lima has produced since John C. CAL
houn and deserves reelection. Some
time ago I said in an article that
he could beat Mr.. Blease ten thou
sand votes and sit in his rocking
chair without making a single speech
and I'm still sticking to it. That
will not be near so bad as Ed Smith
beat him when times were quiet.
You may put this in your pipe and
smoke it, the man who runs for Of
flee and is opposed to the govern
ment and it's prosecution, of the war
well his name is Dennis now.
We were very much pleased with
the first issue of your semi-weekly,
especially the local column, for l
believe it had every mans name in
the county 'ceptin mine and I hadn't
been to town. You should have had
Mrs. Rogers before and I have al
ways wondered why she ever left
The Medium, her noble fathers
paper. Frank Carwile.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-16

was the proprietor Of the Emporium
in Abbeville, S. G., about whom
they had read so much in The Press
and Banner, and they didn't seen
to know me or The Press and Ban
ner either. I asked them if they
knew Mr.. Allen Smith, or DR.. Har-
rison, or DR.. Thomson, who run our
banks and they didn't know a one Of
them, though they have been to New
York a dozen times each. Thy didn't
even know Bill Wilson, who buys
goods up there, and had never heard
of uncle Jim, and didn't know he
was in the mule business. III
Now, I do not want to try to run
down your town, but there is nothing
which will make a town 60, dead as
quickly as a set of ignorant BARRIERS.
We have night schools down here
where people who want to can get
an education and I guess they have
them in New York. If so, I would
suggest that each shop in your town
should require at least two men to
be educated in the News and take
all the papers so a gentleman who
calls can learn something, as a man
who calls. at prominent center like a
barber-shop likes to hear the issues
of the day discussed.
Let me know the status of things
when you write me agan?
Your cousin,
Davis.
P. S.-What do they have all those
good looking women in barber-shops
New York for anyway?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-16
and is buried there. His grave isn't
marked and I have nv doubts as TO

S1llu J. Uu1lOO IlVlSs LIZ sloNC loll v
marked and I have my doubts as to
whether there is any one living who
al show you his grave. A great
mistake not to mark ones last rest
ing place. He and two other bro
theirs married Callaham's and if
you see one and a Carwile around
here you may know at once they are
related. 1910 the old woman came
home from a visit to home people
and I was glad she did for I had
been keeping "batch." 1911 cool
rain and had fire like today. 1912
cotton was 10 3-4, a vast difference
from that of the present. 1913 hot
and cloudy, August day. 1914 pick
ed cotton and am still at the job.
1915 picked peas and had first frost
on the tenth. 1916 sold cotton at
Due West 1866, more than I had
ever received for it up to that date.
The battle of Savannah took place
in 1779 and they are still fighting
over the water and the end is not yet
in sight. And they will be fought
long after this war is over for the
devil was in Adam and Eve and Cain
and he is the supreme ruler of many
to this day.
Peru and Uruguay have joined the
defenders of democracy. How any
self respecting nation a do other
wise is a mystery to us. Those on
the other side represent brutality in
its worst shape.
W. received a letter from Mr..
Joe Bell of Tuxedo, N. G., in which
he said he would be at Little River
on the 2Sth with his quartette, if
the weather and roads permitted, and
we sincerely trust they will.
We received a card on the 9th at
IL o'clock, postmarked Columbia, S.
c., Oct. S, 2 P. M, Jackson Branch.
Has the old time stage coach return
ed? Could have been over half way
to California. Some one is to blame
and no wonder we have lawsuits.
w wish we were a good criminal
lawyer for we see business ahead
for one for the courts r going to
have plenty to do we fear. Men
can't retain all the blood which
courses their veins with 26 cent cot
ton and there are going to be a few
fights this side of the big pond. If
we see n we are going the other
way for we don't like the idea of put
ting our hand on the Bible and going
IN the stand and about the first thing
we know some smart lawyer will
make US tell-you know what. Keep
out of law and let some of them go
to blowing.
Congress has adjourned and the
Records will quit coming for awhile.
Well, its a big job to read everything
in them in this day and time espe-
cially the speeches of Bob LaFol-
lette Stone, Hardwick, and Co., and
we are not going to try to undertake
the job.
w. B. Mann and wife of near
Lowndesville, were with us Friday
the 5th for the first time in quite a
while
In our opinion boys of Is and 16
years old are going to have to I'M
dergo a course of training in our
military encampments. There is one
thing certain the world, with the ex-
ception of Germany isn't going to be
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-16

but when I was in New York I men,
toned the matter nee or twice
where I thought Joe Harrison would
hear of it, and I remember you
looked surprised. Then again you
know I have a fine clover patch in
my garden, and am interested in sew
eral big enterprises, so that when I
had figured up all my income, and
knocked off all the expenses of get
ting it in, after three weeks work,
/ found that 1 would have to pay
on SLIPS, which will give the State
about n and a quarter cents.
Now there is another strange thing
about this income tax business,
which I found after sending in my
return, and I could have cut it down
to $1.20 if I had known it. This
thing to which I refer is this: AS I
stated you cannot deduct any per-
sonal expenses at all, therefore,
when l buy a cigar and smoke it,
even though it is burnt up, nothing
can be deducted for the cigar. But
all losses are knocked off. Now that
is where I could have made it $1.2O.
I will explain this point to you as
it may be useful. You see as I was
going up to New York, after pass
ing Hodges, I wanted to see the
country which was new to me, so I
rode most of the way with my head
out of the window. Now the morn
ing we were passing through Vir-
gnia, [ was in the smoker and was
looking out the window. I had just
lighted a cigar and put it in my
mouth to smoke, when 1 saw a dog
running after the train and I stuck
my head out a little too far to watch
the dog and a telegraph pole knock
ed the cigar out of m ymouth. You
see that cigar was not smoked, and
therefore vas not personal expenses,
but being knocked out of my mouth,
and not having a chance to get It!
it comes under losses under the in,
come tax law, after consulting
Judge Holiingsworth and his consta-
bic I find that l should have deducted
this loss from the $1.25 and made
it $1.2O. So you see the State will
have a little the advantage of me on
that, but when I do the returning
next year I will keep this in mind.
Dick, (that is what we call Col.
Sondley) tells me that my return is
of the finest he has ever seen.
He thinks the Governor may have if
framed.
1 didn't say anything about it to
brother Stillman, but l don't mind
you that you have the most
ignorant set of BARRIERS in New York
that I have ever seen. In Able
vile a mar don't need to take a pa
per if he has time to go down to one
of our barbershops every morning
as. the BARRIERS here know everything
and everybody and a tell you all
the news. In New York l went to
nearly every %barbershop in town and
sat around to hear what was going
on and I didn't hear any news at
all. Finally, I decided that the bar
bers thought I was a spy, or some
thing of that kind, so I thought I
would let them know who I was the
next time, so I walked into a shop,
and went around and shook hands
with all the BARRIERS and told them I
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-16
MR.. FRANK CARWILE.

Mr.. Frank Carwile was a pleasant
visitor in our office last week. He
contributes frequently to our pages
and his articles are read with much
interest. He is looking we'll. We
thank him for his expressions COM
plimentary to our semi-weekly edi-
ton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-16
LIcE N S e
ORDINANCE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
City of Abbeville.

For the purpose of meeting in part
the current expenses of the city, GOV
eminent of the City of Abbeville, s.
c., for the fiscal year beginning the
LIST day of January, 1918, and to
meet in part such other indebtedness
of the City of Abbeville, S. G., as
NAV become due in said fiscal year,
therefore, be it ordained by the City
Council of Abbeville, S. c., and by
authority of the same.
Section 1. That no person, firm, OF
corporation shall engage in, prose
cute or carry on any trade, BUSINESS,
occupation or profession hereinafter
mentioned, without having first paid
q SPECIAL license tax therefor as tol-
9orJc m wit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-16

P. S.-What do they have all those
good looking women in barber-shops
New York for anyway?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. M. Donaldson, of Harrisburg,
has shown to the publishers of the
Lock Haven Dispatch an old news
paper, the Lock Haven Press, dated
July "a, 1852, which was found in
an old bureau drawer by Mr.. Dom
aldson. The Press was published by
the nestor of the Clinton county bar,
w. c. Kress.
Fred c. Hanyon, of Scranton,
has been elected for the third time
as grand treasurer of the L. o. o. +.
of Pennsylvania.
DIR. Richard III. Harte, the noted
in Philadelphia, is a native of that
to France, will have the rank of
major.
Bishop ]. l.. McCloskey, conse-
Grated for a Philippine see yesterday
in Philadelphia, is q native of that
city.
j. Lord Rigby, the new chief of
corporations under Auditor General
SNYDER. used to be recorder of deeds
of Delaware county.
John +. Casey, big Pittsburgh
contractor, was here yesterday visit
ing the Legislature.
Attorney Philip V. Maths, of
Scranton, who was here yesterday.
came to discuss the proposition for a
law for q new station in Scranton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT
9.pM

Germany is in greater need of home
rule than Ireland.-New York Morn
ing Telegraph.
Maybe this now Justly celebrated
Won Hindenburg line is a Decline for
Berlin.-New York Morning Tele-
graph.
1t should not be a difficult task to
arouse patriotic farmers to the inn
portance of raising all the 81 wheat
they can.-Indianapolis Star.
Go to it. Haig! You have the en-
tire summer and the whole of Ger
many before you.-Savannah News.
You can't escape fighting by marry
ing, a recruiting officer declares. just
what does he mean?-Philadelphi
North American.
The Russian people, however. VIII
soon find out that it takes more than
little thing like a revolution to rid
the country of grafters.-NashVllle
Southern Lumberman.
The KreuZzeitung says II is q case
of 300. .OOO, 900 against 100000 Ger
mans. This, of course, is intended to
flatter Austria, Bulgaria and turkey
Newark News,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
This Must Be Our War

Mary Roberts Rinehart's eldest
son. though still in college, has al
ready enlisted for service. In "The
Altar of Freedom just published
by Houghton Miffiin Company, Mrs.
Rinehart says:
'I would not have my son do
other than he is doing. He Is still in
his teens, but he is a man, and this
is his country. / have not raised
him to be a shirker. Only-this is
a matter for everybody. 1t is not
my war, or his, or the war of those
other college boys who are always
the first to go. Just as we all bene-
fit by the country, so must we share
and share alike-its dangers.
Unless it is your war. this is not
"A democracy. If, as in the past, we
have allowed the few to do our po-
litical thinking for us; If i'm this war
we allow the few to fight for us.
then as a nation we have died and
our ideals have died with us. Though
we win, If all have not borne this
burden alike, then do we lose."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
Democratic Deserters
TWilkes-Barre Record1

Fortunately, President Wilson has
had staunch Republican supporters
for what he considers. the most vital
policies of war administration, The
Democratic desertions are notable
and at another time would call forth
the wrath of the White House, but
in the assurance of a safe majority
the defections from the President S
own party have been passed over as
lightly as possible.
Speaker Champ Clark's denuncia-
ton of the conscription plan as on
a par with the convict system is but
a part of the ranking antagonism
that Mr.. Clark has shown toward
the war attitude of the administra-
ton. The novel spectacle has been
presented of a Republican member
of the House Committee on Military
Affairs taking the place of the DEM
ocratic chairman of the committee,
Representative Dent, in champioR-
ing the Presidents plan for raising
an army, because the latter was un-
relentingly opposed to it. There is
the leader of the Democratic major
/ ity in the House, Mr.. Kitchen, who
has been so seldom in accord with the
administration that he has remained
for the most part in the background
In the Senate the chairman of the
important Foreign Relations Com
mittee. Mr.. Stone, deserted the Pres
ident in the decision of the most
momentous problem of half a GEN.
tury. And we cannot overlook Mr.
Bryan, who, although not at present
member of the official family, left
the President in the lurch at q most
critical time and by his radical dis
agreement with the President and
inopportune resignation as Secretary
of State, decidedly embarrassed the
President in his dealings with Ger
many
These men declare that they are
animated by conscientious scruples,
but their attitude is far from that
taken by such eminent Republicans
as Messrs. Taft, Root, Roosevelt and
Lodge, who on every occasion have
admonished the statesmen and the
people to stand by the President
through thick and thin. The deser-
ton of the President by so many in
fiuential officials of his own party
will be regarded with amazement by
another generation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02

cryiting of her manhood and her
womanhood for the conflict which is
ahead.
Our quota in the army which is
now being organized will be largely
exceeded through the units of the
various branches of the service rep
resented by the National Guard COM
! panies and the volunteers who are
already serving in the regular es-
| tablishment. Central Pennsylvania
boys are not waiting for any con-
| scription act to force them into the
service of their country. They are
clamoring daily for admission to the
various training camps and for en-
listment in the several branches of
the army and navy.
But this is not all. More than
5000 men, women and children have
joined the Red Cross. For weeks pa
triotic women and girls have been
preparing bandages and doing the
hundred and one things which only
they can do for the relief of the
wounded and the suffering in the
armies of the country and for our
Allies abroad.
The impressive spectacle present
ed by the great patriotic demonstra-
ton on the streets of the city a few
days ago was of itself an expression
of the spirit of our people in this
crisis. Not even a violent rainstorm
could check the enthusiasm and
earnestness of that great patriotic
pageant. So it is that in all emer-
Sencies this community has shown
the stuff of which It is made and
because of this fact responsibility
rests upon every man, woman and
child to maintain the splendid repu-
tation of patriotic city under all
circumstances.
In our municipal life and in the
discharge of the civic duties entaiIed
in the public service we must see
to it that in every way the best ira
ditions of Harrisburg shall be up
held.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
Curb and Corner Loafing

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Your paper is always looking out
Tor the comfort of the people and
and for that reason 1 make bold to
write a line or two about q great
public nuisance which the police
department seems to have overlook
ed. l refer to the loafers on the COR
ners and curb lines of the streets in
the central business district. We
women are constantly subject to in
suit when we are not menaced with
streams of tobacco. Day and night
crowds of loafers monopoliZe the
sidewalks, much as one might expect
to see in a small town where the
population goes in a body to the
post office or the railroad station of
an evening; but contrary to all ordi-
nary police regulations in the mod
ern city. Surely our police officials
could remedy the nuisance if they
would. Please ask them for the sake
of the women to break up the prac-
tice.
A HARRISBURG WOMAN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
Free Bridge to Island

T0 the Editor of the Telegraph:
A few weeks ago there appeared
an editorial in the Telegraph about
large hall that the city should
build on Island Park for holding
large gatherings. l certainly do think
that the Telegraph is right about
that hall idea. A hall built on Island
Park could be used for many pur-
poses and l think, like the Tele-
graph, that we should not allow
any other city to get ahead of us
and l believe that Island Park
should be Harrisburg's real play
ground because it is close to the
business section of the city and it
would have it's many advantages to
the people. But there is one thing
that | think should be done first,
and that is a free bridge across the
river as far as the Island and to-
day | believe there is a great oppor-
tunity for out city council to have
a free bridge as far as the island.
The valley Railways is asking City
Council for additional franchise and
privileges for the building of ter
minal, and for those privileges /
think City Council should demand
from the Railway Company a free
bridge as far as Island Park.
Signed,
A TAX PAYER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
The Sword of Lafayette
By BRIGGS

(Inscribed to Raymond Poincare,
President of the French Republic.)
1t was the time of our despair
When lion-hearted Washington
That man of patience and of pray
Looked sadly at each rising sun,
In all the freedom breeding air.
OF hope and rescue there was
none.
When lo!-as down from Heaven let,
Ihere came the sword of Lafayette!
Our harbors-how they danced with
light!
Our tireless bells-how they did
ring!
Again we girded up to fight
Not England, but her Prussian
king.
For here was succor, and the might
OF one great souls imagining
What wonder If our eyes be wet
To see the sword of Lafayette.
Upon the walls where Justice keeps
The swords she doth most gladly
save,
Not one of all so deeply sleeps
Within the scabbard's honored
grave
But, listening for her call, it leaps,
To live again among the brave.
Thank Heaven our naked blade is set
Beside the sword of Lafayette!
Not his, not ours, the brutal strife,
The vulgar greed of soil or dross;
The feet that follow drum and fife
Shall tread to nobler gain or loss.
'Tis for the holiness of life
The Spirit. calls us to the Cross
Forget us, God, if we forget
The sacred sword of Lafayette.
Robert Underwood Johnson read
at France Day celebration in New
York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
Charles M. Schwab says =

There is not man in power at our
Bethlehem steel works to-day who did
not begin at the bottom and work his
way up. round by round, simply by
using his head and his hands little
more freely and little more effec-
lively than the men beside him. Eu-
gene Grace, president of Bethlehem,
worked in the yard when first knew
him. Mr. Snyder was a stenographer,
Mr.. Mathews a craftsman. The fifteen
men in direct charge of the plants
were selected not because of some
startling stroke of genius. but be-
cause, day in and day out. they were
doing little unusual thipFs-thinklng
beyond their jobs