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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-31
NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE.

OF the estate of X. Francis Kee, de-
ceased, give notice that they will
make final return on June 29th
1918, and apply to the Probate
Court OF Lancaster county for Let
ters Dismissary
- T. LAFAYETTE KEE.
NV. p. ROBINSON,
Ms Administrators.
Dated May goth, 1918.
1t a &-Fri. No. 64-4t.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-31
ODD FELLOWS ASKED TO
GIVE UP EATING WHEAT

Columha.-Lodge OF Odd Fellows
throughout South Carolina and the
individual members OF this great OF.
Eanization have been called upon by
the officers Of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge for support OF the program OF
the Food Administration to save
wheat. All Odd Fellows are urged
through the Sovereign Grand Lodge
to voluntarily abstain from the use OF
wheat foods until after the next har.
vest. There are In the United States
about $500. 900 Odd Fellows. The
membership OF this order in South
Carolina Is very large. and there will
no doubt be a generous and patrf.
otic response to the appeal 90 save
wheat to help feed the fsyhtipN,orces
of America and the allieL the
people of the allied county"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-31
Two Ayiators ave Ktlcd.

{ Eeronto, Ont, May So.--second
7 t. H, Heintspan. of Toronto.
6g1fatid;T 8. Rosenthal. Of New
|raft age killed IN an airplane ac-
|Eaer appear re, .ehsp esEodrome TO-
keacht committee IaoA
- ~. 80
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
RUNAWAY GIRLS
HELD BY POLICE

Nellie Hickey. IS. and Ruth
weygndt. II. runawayu from the Pa.
cific Coast Rescue and Protection as
ISOLATION OF Everett. were captured
by Patrolman y. H. LIttau. at the
King 81. station. Seattle. Thursday
morning at o. They were waiting
for a train 70 Portland. where one Of
the girls has relatives
Tho two girls were taken in charge
by the juvenile department OF the
headquarters police station. and viii
be returned to the association.
Tho police are looking for Ella Ne.
Cray. u. and May Hcncy. IL. both OF
Everett who are believed TO bn In So
attic. after running away from home.
several days MO They had $3.50 be
tween them.
Helen Butts. II years old. dirap-
p~ar~d from her home. at 1855 tsth
ave e.. wednesday morning. and has
not been sren since.
Affa Jane Herman. fsy~ar old
daughter Of Mrs. Emma T. Herman.
OF 1915 w. s2d at. who disappeared
from home August IL. has not been
found. altho the police department
has made every effort I % locate her.
Tho mother Of the girl IL confined TO
her bcd with a fractured Les.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Expert on Cats?
Write ColdUeU
Vieus About 'Em

What do you know about oatsr
Corporation Counsel Hugh
Caldwell issued an appeal 10 tho
public Thursday morning. asking
anyone having views on the sub
Ject OF cats as n nuisance and
should write him on the
subject.
The license committee has
asked me TO draw up an
ordinance regulating cats he
said. but they don't supply me
with Information enough. The
committee merely NtipuIaies that
tn. ordinance b- regulatory A
there have been lots OF kicks
from the public about stray cats
and night yowiings. I think they
ought 10 help me- out. The ordi-
nance has TO he submitted by
Monday, 90 all communication.
should b. sent to the city legal
department before that time"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22

eethcr with Luconovfc and Henion.
give that team one Of the best huri-
ing corps in the league. Jerry
Downs. on first has added the bal
ance needed to round out n great in
field.
The Olympia combination has been
going great lately. and with Gardner
on the hill. the down-Sound team
VIII not be subdued without n fight.
Brown. Gipe. Wolfer. Patterson and
Gardner are all well known In local
hasseball circles. and have been play.
ing high-class ball for the Capital
City.
In h second tilt. Scaton probably
viii be the Duthie hurier. while Cook
IN expected to pitch for the visitors.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
SHIP MASTERS
TO walk OUT

VANCOUVER. Il. C.. Aug. ga
More than 4oo masters and mates
employed on Dominion steamships
win Quit their positions and walk GU,
in the next IS hours. according to an
announcement by d. L. McTaggart.
representative OF the Canadian Mcr.
chant Service Guild. at a meeting Of
the royal commission delegated 20 in.
puire into the differences between
steamship companies and the guild.
These difficulties have been bitter
bnd growing In Intensity for some
lime. The principal source CT the
Rcuhle. according to McTaggart. Is
rcfusal OF the steamship corn.
f4oA to deal with the guild col.
iectiveiy. Mc1raggart has suggested
that the Dominion government take
over all the steamers for the dura-
ton of the war.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Vote TO PASS
BILL over VETO
BY CONDO

The city utilities eommitte.
Thursday voted that the ordinance
taking s.iT.ooo from the city gen
crai fund for the purchase % street
cars b. passed over the mayors
veto.
II am rs anxious as anybody
for the development Of the city
traction system Mayor Hanson
told the committee. but ! don't
want TO spend such large sums
OF money without the governments
permission. Get tho approval of
the capital issues committee at
Washington, -. C."
The government wants 70 take off
the steam cars being used to trans
port shipyard workers. and have
tho traction service NO adjusted that
the loss viii not be felt.
With this end In view Mayor
Hanson. Captain BIaln OF the ship
ping board. traction company
heads. officers OF the King county
council OF defcnrr. District Rail d.
rector l. c. Gilman and representa-
ives OF the port commission. met
In conference In the county city
building Thursday afternoon
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Billiard Champion
Must Work or Fight
by BLOssER
BY AHERN

NEW YORK. Aug. 22-WiTie
Hoppe. worlds 1872 baik-line bill
Hard champion. has been ordered
by his local draft board to obtain
nor useful employment or b
placed in Class /. A. of the draft.
He has appealed his case to the
district board. with the assertion
that TO change his employmens
would be a hardship. inasmuch az
he Is not fitted for labor. Hoppe
has never done any manual labor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22

stated the Highianders in fourth
place.
Any hope that the Giants may
nave entertained for overcoming the
Cubs was shattered yesterday when
the Chicago leaders sent McGraw's
team down to overwhelming defeat
Rowiand's team now has a lead OF
ten and onehalf games. which
cinches the pennant. Cincinnati and
Pittsburg both won their games. so
there Is no change in the scrambls
for the three hole.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
TEAMS TO
PLAY E

Basebail fans viii como into their
WI Sunday. when the Puget Sound
shipyard league win s,aeca an 1s.kar-
at douhie-hcader at Liberty park
In he first battle scheduled. the
Patterson Macdonald crew VIII tan
gle with the fast-going Olympia out.
M in what should prove TO be n great
battle. for the league leadership is at
stake, In the other half OF the dou.
Die bin. the Duthic aggregation win
take on the Foundation nine. from
Tacoma. which should give the fans
n regular matinee.
The Pattcrron-Ma cDonald team
has been strengthened considerably
OF late. The addition OF FIttery and
Stnndridge. OF the Coast league. to-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Will Demonstrate
Wheatless Dishes

Mary r. Sutherland. OF the Unit.
ed States food administration. will
lecture on whcauicSs dishes at tn.
Womanis Navy league. $50 saith
ave. y. w. Friday afternoon at
s:so. In tho evening Miss su,her.
land Will demoun,rate the cutting
OF patterns and tn. rcmodeliing Of
dresses at the home OF Mrs. Capt.
J. w. kecne. tsi7 Englewood at. at
s o'clock.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
RED SOX AND INDIANS
WIN THEIR GAMES

Cleveland and Boston both won
their games In the American league
yesterday. the Red sox defeating
81. Louis without much effort and
the Indians coping the initial
game Of the Washington series.
Three games now separate Cleve-
land from the leaders. while wash.
ington is "A like number OF games
behind Cleveland. New York, by
their victory over Detroit. with Chi.
oAgo losing 20 the ~tailcnders, rein
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
War Fund Benefits
Planned by Corbett

CHICAGO. Aug. Thames j. Cor.
bett. former heavyweight champion.
is planning tho organization OF two
all star baseball teams. to be com
posed OF players who do not have to
work. Tho clubs will make a tour OF
the country for war benefit funds.
christy Maihewson and Ty Cobb
have been asked TO be the managers
OF the teams. but II Cobb carries out
his announced Intentions. no will Join
the marines Mt the close OF the pres.
ent season.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Oregon Parole Man
Must Stand Trial

SAN RAFAEL. Cal. Aug. Fl.
@. Keller. state parole officer Of ore
gon. must stand trial here in Sep
trmbar on n charge OF kidnapping C.
u. Smith. a former inmate OF San
Quentin.
Smith was released from San Qucn-
tin four months AFRO. and was taken
into custody by Keller. acting aa
state parole officer OF oregon while
Smiths attorneys were fighting cx.
tradition. Keller took Smith 10 Ore
gor,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22

To decide ways and means TO fight
the rent hog question. the Anti. Rent
P~rofitccring association win hold a
meeting Thursday night. at 8 O'Clock.
at Moves cafeteria. Tenants OF the
boren apartments. many OF whom
have been ordered to AGATE their
apartments. VIII attond the meeting
TO discuss the making Of a test case
10 determine whether the orders TO
vacate arc legal.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Woman Sets New
Swimming Record

NEW YORK. Aug. 22-Mrs. Claire
q. ffnney. of New Rochelle. N. Y.
won the A. A. US national a4o-yard
swimming championship for women.
in the open and rough water off
Brighton Beach Wednesday, making
the distance in 7 minutes, 10 IS sec.
onds. She established n record for
the Same event last year at Homo
lulu.
Dorothy Burns. the Los Angeles
entry. finished second. 10 yards be-
hind Mrs. fnney, while the other
entries failed to finish.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Children to Hold
Aquatic Contests

Seattle kids who have been steady
customers at the local bathing
beaches this summer win have a
chance Saturday to show just how
much they have learned OF the swim
ming art.
Out at different beaches. Madrona.
Mount Baker, and Green Lake. under
the supervision OF Superintendent
Frank II. Cooper, the Seattle public
schools will give an aquatic exhibl.
ton.
Diving will feature the program.
and races Of all distances are also
on the schedule, in which about 1000
embryo champions will take part.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
First Round Tennis
Sets Hare Fought

SOUTHAMPTON. n. Y. Aug. %.
The first round OF the Meadow.
brook club tennis tournament. repre-.
sening a preliminary 70 the national
championship was featured by hard
fought matches. Most OF the con-
tests were decided in straight sets.
Kunagae. tho Japanese star; w.
T. Hayes and Burdick. OF Chicago;
w. IT. Tilden. of Philadelphia, and c.
II. Doyle, of Washington. all won
their initial matches. Lindlcy Muir.
ray advanced to the SECOND round by
default.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Roamer Skaters
Mile Running Mark

SARATOGA, y. Y. Aug. 22.-The
American running record for a mile
wa shattered Wednesday by Roam.
er. plotted by S%huttinger. who made
the distance in 1884 as. The previous
record was made by Salvador 2s
years ago. who stepped the same dis
lance in 1851.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Worlds Series Up
to Secretary Baker

CHICAGO. Aug. 22.-It was an.
nounced by Ban Johnson, president
Of the American league. Wednesday
night, that there would be no worlds
series without the consent of Score
tary OF War Baker.
The details OF the series worked out
at Cincinnati were presented to the
war department, which has ruled
that the work or fight" regulations
would include baseball players after
September Z. 1t WAS planned by the
national commission to start the Sc.
ries September 4.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
HARVARD ATHLETE KILLED

NEW YORK. Aug. 22--Capt
Phillip o. Mills. former Harvard ath-
lete. son OF the late Gen. Samuel n.
Mills. chief OF artillery. U. s. A..
was killed in action July rs. accord
ing to information received hero
Wednesday by friends.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22

Stolen flour sacks In Budapest
were bought up at $40 each by dress.
makers to make gowns
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22
Baseball Adopted
by French Army

PARIS. Aug. 22.-Bascball Is to be
inaugurated into the regular physical
training schedule OF the French
army. according to reports made by
French officers. after seeing the ef.
fccts OF the game on American
troops.
Johnny Evcrs. with tho Knights of
Columbus In France. has been re.
quested TO act as the chief instructor
in the French camps. and the
training win start Immediately with
equipment furnished by tie knights
of Columbus.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-22

Ia Fontninc's birthplace at Cha.
tcau.T hierry has been destroyed by
bombs and German shells.
The sun., 1918-08-18
1.-THE Court of BelshaZZar"

places and treasure boards of the Jews
But Daniel sees through the Kings
scheme He advises Ariel to obey the
Kings summons but to be on his guard.
To Ashti is given the business of ex-
tracing from the young man the secrets
of the Jews, which once obtained, Belshaz-
Ear proposes general massacre. Ashti
almost has the young man within her tolls.
80 that he forgets for while his affianeed
bride, the Rose of Jerusalem, to whom he
has promised to return when his mission
shall have been fulfilled. But Ashti Is
spied upon herself, and the Kings jeal-
ousy is aroused by reports of her entiee-
ment of Ariel. Ariel is thrust into prison,
which brings him to n realization of his
treachery to his beloved and steels him
once again to his purpose.
The story of AriePs escape and of how
he reached the armed forces of Cyrus,
which were besieging the city; the dra-
matte appearance of the Rose of Jcru-
salem and the exceedingly ingenious sug-
gestion of the authors as to the means by
which the hosts of the Persian King
gained access to the inner walls of Baby
Ion are told in dramatic and plausible
way.
THE COURT OF BELSHAZzAR. By
EARL WILLIAMS. The Bobbs- Merrill Com
pany. $50.
The sun., 1918-08-18

TT is an ambitious essay that Earl Will
L Jams, young newspaper man of In
diana, makes in his first work of fiction,
The Court Of Belsha-zdr. He draws upon
ancient history for his plot and narrative,
and so at once brings to mind Sienkiewiez
and Lew. Wallace-Quo TadiS! and Ben
Hur
Mr.. Williams is fortunate in that it can-
not be said of his book that it resembles
either Of these masterpieces. He has had
the good sense to tell his story in his own
way. And the story is exceptionally well
told, starting out at a moderate pace, the
plot gradually unfolding and increasing
in interest as the book goes along. The
writer has reserved his best efforts for
his denouement and climax. He exhibits
also a rare faculty for excluding non-es-
sentials.
Five hundred years and more before the
beginning of the Christian era the court
of Belshazzar ruled in Babylon, Jerusalem
lay In ruins, and 100000 Jews lived in
captivity. Daniel, now grown old, awaited
in bis last days the promised deliverance
of his people. When, therefore, young
Ariel, the son of Levi, priest of the
temple and "a Hebrew of the Hebrews"
consecrated by his father and having
taken the Hebrew oath "by the fear of the
Father" arrives in Babylon after long
md weary pilgrimage across the desert
from Jerusalem, Daniel interprets it as
sign that the deliveranee is at hand. he
reasons also that the young pilgrim is the
appointed of the Lord for the task.
Belshazzar, hearing of Ariel through
his favorite concubine, Ashti, who has en-
countered the young man on the streets,
and hearing that he is in the confidence Of
the Jews, summons him to the palace,
hoping that the youth may be swayed by
iiattery, and, wined, dined and bribed with
gifts, may Betray the secret meeting
The sun., 1918-08-18

novels as Clarence Burlington Kelland's
The Source, and in such stories as those
os Peter Kyne's in the Saturday EreniRg
Post
Wall Street has been made 10 yield ro-
nance and drama in many recent stories
and novels, as in Bruce Barton's The Max
ing of George GrotOa, where the young
hero goes through business complications
that hiring out character.
The homely hog has rooted his way into
fiction and been approved romantic, as in
such stories as The Jungle, by Upton SIM
clair, that sensational novel of the Chicago
stock yards, and Henry Kitchell Websters
The Bunker O the Bear, story of cor
ner in lard. n
Wheat as a Hero.
Frank Norris was making wheat even
more valuable than 1t is in war times BY
his tIilogy, which his untimely death cut
short. But we have The Pit, a big story
of commerce Cotton is the chief mate
rial in various present day stories Of the
South Whereas the holder fiction dealt
only with aristoeratic leisure, with colo
nels who drank mint juleps and let dar-
KEYS do the work, now the SOutherner is
wideawake person who has passed prohi-
bition laws in the interest of business and
is much concerned in the extension OF
trade.
We have the book agent made delightful
in Christopher Moriey's Parndssus on
Wheels. We have the humor of running
modern boarding house in Fanny
Hurst's Ice Water, Pr. o. Henry has
about cleaned up all the lowly trades for
us, and G. K. Chesterton gives us a va
riety in 4 Club Of Queer Trades.
Arnold Bennett shows US q diapers
shop in The Old Wires Tale, while II. g.
Wells gives US diapers in Kipps and The
Wheel of Chance. Henry Kitehell Web
ster, Samuel Merwin, Montague Glass,
Irwin Cobb-but one cannot name all the
successful writers of modern business
storiesi
Business sometimes plays the role Of the
man maker. Trade, with its democracy
of spirit and its discipline, is made to re-
form weak characters Nowadays the
father who has neglected his son for
twenty years makes everything right by
throwing him unsupported into business.
Watch him shed glory on the family and
firm! The Turmoil, by Booth Harrington,
shows the transformation of a dreamy
youth from a minor poet to successful
manufacturer, though much against his
will. SINNERS Big Idea, by Henry r.
wing Dodge, depicts the rejuvenatiop Of
men in business who have sunk into rut
too early.
The sun., 1918-08-18
Untired Business Men in Modern Fiction

and American-innovations in fiction
as they are in life. Fancy Mrs. Radcliffe
writing of an Emma McChesney, for in
stance, or Samuel Richardson depicting an
Iron Woman! Scott could win our SYM
patty with the woes of lovely and femi-
nine Rebecca, but conld he have made US
love and admire a homely Jewish woman
running a store as Edna Ferber has done
SO notably in Fanny Herselff
o. Henry has shown US many types of
business women, saiesgirls in basement
stores, restaurant cashiers, stenographers,
manicurists and what not While Rich
ardson wrote an interminable Pamela to
show the struggles of a lowly girl to pre-
serve her virtue, o. Henry in a few hun
dred words has given Us a greater pie
ture of a working girl in his Unfinished
Story.
The modern author writes not only of
The appealing woman in business, not
only of the one who wins our admiration
by her success, but also of her who does
not know the game. Only present day
American writer could make such deli
cate sport Of lovely woman showing her.
self goose as Edwin lie Fevre has done
in The U'Oman aud Her Bonds in his
delectable series of Wall Street studies.
The Clerks Turn.
Now We have romance in reality, pas
sion in cold trade, comedy and melodrama
in all forms of commerce. Frank GOewy
Jones, in his realistic and entertaining
series of business stories ceptring round
"Just Jones,Y makes the principal char
acter of his fiction homely, timid, I'M
attractive clerk, certainly unpromising
material for romance according to the
older ideas.
The tailor, for instance, how he has
been seorned! Even George Meredith,
while making a tailor the hero of his
Ecan Harrington lays the emphasis on
personality rather than on business, on
the mans social rather than professional
aspirations and struggles. Yet this char
acter, heretofore considered hopelessly
undramatic and plebeian, has been made
for us so fascinating as recently TO enter
tain the American public for years in fie-
ton and on the stage. We never tire of
Potash and Perlmutter and their strug-
giles with the clothing business.
Mr.. Hewlett's Butcher.
Maurice Hewlett makes butcher the
hero Of his novel, The STOPPING Lady,
Which would have seemed thing incred-
ible in the eighteenth century.
The lumber trade has been made dra-
matte and entertaining recently in such
The sun., 1918-08-18
BY DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH.

II lotion has no romances more fas-
l. cinating or more dramatic than
those concerned with modern business.
Love furnishes no more thrills than does
commerce There are as many variations
in plot for the business struggle as for
the love affair.
Yet business has only recently come into
its own in fiction. 1t is a brand new
motif in the novel, the short story and
the play; truly modern element in TO-
nance. In the past We had stories a
plenty detailing efforts to dig up buried
treasure on uninhabited islands. Only
of late years has the attempt 10 obtain
the coin In more normal fashion been
played up.
Yet since business occupies the larger
share of our waking hours, it has right
in literature. And as nowadays every
body, from the bellhop TO the college
president, from the baggage smas1er to
the floor walker, is writing stories or
plays, we are seeing variety of business
interests represented in our democratic
fction. :.
The sun., 1918-08-18
When Lovely Woman Stops.

In modern fiction, especially in America,
this is all changed. The business Of ro-
nance is still important, of course, but the
romance of business is not less so. Trade
furnishes the complications and the strug-
giles for countless novels and stories and
plays.
One reason for this aside from the fact
that trade has risen in responsibility and
literature has been democratized, may be
the feminine invasion. of business as of
literature, which has made modern bust
ness more entertaining than formerly
when mere man had the manipulation of it
all alone. The extension of the reading
public always carries with it an extension
of the line of interests involved. And
since women constitute large part Of the
reading public nowadays, the fact that
women are interested in business naturally
carries with it the inclusion of business in
the materials for fiction. Now the tired
business woman may find relief from her
problems by reading about them in novels.
Business women are essentially modern