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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-14
COTTON NOT DEAD.

1t begins to look as if Old Man
Cotton was by no means a dead man.
He has been a mighty sick man and is
still sick but he seems to be able to
sit up and take notice and if the pres
ent signs mean anything he may be
hobbling around almost before we
know it.
Local cotton men report some real
inquiries for spot cotton for the first
time in weeks. One Greenwood firm
had an inquiry yesterday from a
North Carolina firm and later on an
other from an Alabama broker.
The world wants cotton but the
worlds weak financial status has
made it unable to make it's purchases.
In our own country the buyers strike
hit cotton and other things a body
blow but this strike cannot continue
always. There are signs now that 1t
is abating and that there is better
demand for cotton goods. You have
to have raw cotton to make cotton
goods and hence the improved de-
mand for raw cotton.
We must sit very steady in theboat,
as Brother B. Harris warns US, and
by playing out little now and then,
not all at once, we may find that
many of our chief troubles are not
so bad as they now seem to be.-In-
ex-Journal.
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tribe, a forgotten and defunct spe-
cies? Have they no interest in their
daughters and no influence over
them? Do they no longer care what
they do or what becomes of them?
Whether they are modest or conspic-
uous? Pure or impure? Moral or lax?
What has come over the world of
mothers? Is their vision blinded,
their protective instinct dulled? Are
they ignorant or merely Indifferent?
Mothers were once the balance
wheel of the world. They moved in
an atmosphere of sanity, of sympa-
thy, of good judgment and order.
1t isn't possible thing that their
worldly wisdom has not increased or
their vision broadened.
What, then, has caused their utter
failure to react to the worldwide
call to "save the girl?"
A number of answers have been
given to that question. One woman
said: ut is a mothers overweening
ambition to have her daughters get
ahead of every other woman's daugh-
ter. She wants her to be more of d
belle, to have more men in love with
her and to make more dates than
any other mothers daughters
and she is willing to have her daugh-
ter go any length to satisfy this am
bition."
Another woman siad: Mothers are
so advanced these days that they
have substituted ethics for religion.
They don't bring their children up on
the Bible any longer, they Wing them
up ethically."
And third said: "The modern
mother is a shirker and a Stacker.
She turns her child over to the kim
dergarten teacher at the age of to
get the instruction she should give
it herself if she wasn't a Stacker.
Everything that was once taught
children in the home is now taught
by somebody outside of the homes,
and if, after being properly vaccina-
ted with such doses of education and
religion and morale and manners,
the virus doesn't 'take'-well, the
mother.
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with her foot, which has been giving
her trouble for some time and was
necessary to call in her doctor Mon.
day afternoon. We hope she will
soon be able to be out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Ellenburg
spent Sunday with Mr.. and. Mrs. j.
]. Grant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ellis moved
to their new home in Midway Mon.
day. We are sorry to loose these
good neighbors but wish them much
success in their new home.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. r. Price and
children spent last Sunday in Mon
terey with Mr.. and Mrs. Waite,
Price and family.
Mr.. ]. o. Seal left Monday fol-
Greenville where he will spend sew.
eral days with his brother, TYR. Geo
Seal.
Mrs. J. F. Ellenburg spent Thurs.
day and Friday with Mrs. G.. A
Hill.
Mrs. Ozey Ellenburg and two chill
dren spent Thursday with her par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Williams
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were invited in for the evening. The
time was pleasantly spent in games.
music and other amusements. A
very happy time was spent.
The Knights of Pythians gave an
oyster supper at the Milford house
Tuesday night. About sixty of the
brethren partook of the feast, this
included a delegation of the K. of
P.'s from Ware Shoals, who were
guests of the brethren of Donalds
and vicinity.
After supper the company repair
ed to the lodge room where the
evening was very pleasantly spent
until late hour. G. C. Clarence Ag-
new called the meeting to order
when speeches were made by
Messrs. G. N. Nickles, of Due West,
T. S. Stribling, of Ware Shoals, Le-
land Vermillion, Sherard Smith and
others. Rev. j NJ. Dallas was an in
vited guest and also made a talk.
The speeches were all humorous and
witty, but all were interesting and
inspiring and were very much en-
joyed by the large company present.
The Donalds lodge is in a very
flourishing condition at the present
time.
Rev. C. H. Smith of the Baptist
church filled his appointment here
last Sunday morning and evening.
Mr.. Will Mckee and son, John
William, were business visitors here
last Saturday.
Mrs. Ida Drake and children were
the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Drake for several days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Drake
visited relatives in Laurens last
week.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY, IA, 1921
LAW ENFORCEMENT.

The General Assembly, we assume,
will take notice Of "the wave OF
crime" in the state. We take it that
the members Of the Senate and House
know that many crimes of violence
are daily reported in the papers OF
the state, and that the liquor maker
and the liquor seller are as common
in the land as feas on dogs in the
summer time.
Meetings have been held in several
communities in, this state looking to
a better enforcement of the law. We
hope these meetings will do good.
Two-thirds of the crimes of vio-
lence in this state are due. to the pis-
tol-carrying habit and to blind-tiger
liquor, one or both. Every man who
looks about him knows that this is
the truth. Pam Cosby testified in the
police court this morning that he had
been shot by another negro for no
other reason than that the other ne
gro "just had a pistol" We believe
he told the truth. When negro gets
an old pistol in his pocket he is not
satisfied until he gets into trouble.
If the pistol is accompanied with
mean liquor it means serious trouble.
=. Knowing these facts, it must be
apparent that the punishment for car
rying pistols and for making and
selling illicit liquor is too light. A
fine of $4,000 or 80 days means moth
ing to a negro if there is someone to
pay him out. The man who peddles
blind tiger liquor can pay fine of
$4,000 every thirty days and still
get rich. The men who violate these
two laws, and who as stated are re-
sponsible for a large percentage of
ne cases in our courts must be more
severely punished if there is to be a
better enforcement of the law. These
men should be sent to the chain gang
for at least twelve months. Such pun
ishment would in a little while great
ly decrease the number of men syste-
matically engaged in the laws viola
tions.
Some people say that the certainty
of punishment, rather than its sever
ity, is preventative of crime. But
we rather think that both the certain
ty and severity of the punishment
will go a long way further in that di-
rection than either alone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-14
'ERINS TAXES.

While the people are interested in
legislation looking to lower taxes we
would again remind the peope of Alb
beville County that the chain gang
IS responsible for the greatest burden
on the Taxpayers of this county.
We have now, we believe, two cap
tains of squads and four guards look.
ing after the chain gang. 1t will be an
easy matter to.find out just how
much they are being paid by the
county. There are twenty-seven men
on the chain gang at present we be-
lieve. The county feeds and clothes
these the entire year. We also pay
for the board of the captains and
guards when they are on duty, we
take it. We are thus boarding thirty
three men just now. At fifteen dol
lars per month for the board and five
dollars per, mopth for clothing the
convicts, we are paying out $4,000
per month for these then. We are
paying in salariG good amount also.
In addition to these expenses we
are all the while buying machinery
of one kind and another. We buy g.
oline to feed the trucks and corn to
feed the mules, and there are about
twenty of these we think. Our recol-
lection rs that the report of Supervi-
sor Stevenson one year ago shc";cd
that it cost $4,000 to maintain the
chain gang in Abbeville County. We
do not believe it can be maintained
at that figure now. But if it can it
means that we will pay about $500
per year for the work of each con-
vict..
We. take it that nobody thinks the
services of a convict in weather of
this kind is worth cent. There will
be three and maybe more months this
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-14
HON. J. HOWARD MOORE
ON COMMITTEES

The committees of the Senate have
been announced and Hon. j.. Howard
Moore has been appointed chairman
of the Committee on Rules and is on
the Committees on Banking and In
surance, Contingent Accounts, FEEDER
al Relations, interpretations, Medical
Affairs, Natural Resources, Peniten-
tiary, Printing, Railroads and Inter.
nal Improvement.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-14
CLEMSON TIGERS
GIVE SCHEDULE
Jungaleers Play Nine Games Next
Season

Clemson College, Jan. 13.-The
Clemson Tigers will play nine foot
ball games during the 1921 season.
according to the schedule which was
announced today by Prof. D. H.
Henry, president of the athletic as
sociation today.
All the dates have been filled ex-
cept the first, October l, which will
be filled shortly.
The schedule is as follows:
October Open.
October 7.-Presbyterian college
at Clemson.
October 14-Auburn at Auburn.
October Thurman at Green
vile.
October 27-Carolina at Column
bia.
November 5-Georgia Tech at
Atlanta.
November 10-The Citadel at
Orangeburg. :.
November 18-Erskine at Glenn
son.
November 24--University of
Georgia at Athens.
The manager Of the team for
1921 is E. Cothran. A captain has
not yet been selected.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-14
PENNEY's CREEK
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

y
Misses Matte Lee and Hattie
Rogers have returned to their
schools after spending several days
with their mother, Mrs. o. B.
Rogers.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Rogers apd
son, John William, spent Monday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Prince.
Mrs. Calvin Prince and little son,
John and sister, Miss Bertha Brad
berry, spent Wednesday with Mrs.
Ozey Ellenburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. o. Seal spent sew
eral days last week in Abbeville
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Williams.
Mrs. o. B. Rogers is suffering
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-14
WHERE ARE THE MOTHERS ?"

An article in one of the Richmond
papers by Cally Ryland entitled
Where are the Mothers" has been
reprinted in a number ots exchanges
and seems to have awakened a good
deal of interest. The article was sent
to the society editor of The Chronicle
by one of Augustus best known bus
mess men, with the request that it be
published. And speaking of "where
are the mothers?" the question might
even more be asked Where are the
Fathers?" for surely fathers even
more than mothers realize just why
girls should not take midnight rides.
or dance improper dances, or dress
in an immodest way and there is no
reason why the responsibilities of
fatherhood should not be recognized
equally with the responsibility of
motherhood. The article however, is
quite worth reading and considering
by both mothers and fathers. 1t is
as follows:
Considering that the oldest profess
sion in the world is the profession of
motherhood, isn't it, the most remark
Ible thing in the world what a fail
re it is? And how utterly it has
,roken down under the acid test of
these after-war days.
Splendid exceptions there are, it is
true-but look beyond the exceptions
and where are the mothers whose in
fuence' means anything with their
daughters or who even try to exert
any influence over them today.
When girls of 13 and IA were ar
rested in this city last summer for
having indecent photographs taken
where were the mothers?
When the Country Club of Vir-
ginia is compelled to- placard its
walls with signs forbidding cheek
dancing and ,"shimmying" ON the ball
room floor-where were the moth
ers?
When young girls go to their work
in georgette blouses that are more
transparent than tissue paper and
with the thinnest of low-cut camisoles
where are the mothers?
When debutantes 60 to balls in
knee-length dancing frocks cut to the
waist line in the back, and with their
faces made up in manner that
would shame Queen Jezebel herself
where are the mothers?
When children of to 10 60 unat-
tended to the most daring and sug-
gestive moving picture shows
where are the mothers?
When young girls go motoring
with their gentlemen friends" from
dusk to midnight-where are the
mothers?
Where are they? Are they lost
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-14
DONALDS


For The New Year
My presence shall go with thee,
So calm thy troubled fears,
My promise is unchanging
Throughout the changeful years.
Mid scenes of gloom or gladness,
When weary or distressed,
PMy presence schall 60 with thee
And I will give thee rest.
Mr.. Clarence Gordon, of Green
wood spent last weekend with his
paents, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Cor
DON,
Miss Myrtle Killingsworth, of
Cheddar, spent the weekend with
home folks.
Mn and Mrs. J. R. Dunn are re-
joicing over the birth of baby girl.
We congratulate the happy parents.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Lipford and
little son, of Greenville, were
guests last Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Drake,
Mr.. Ben H. Smith was business
visitor in Ware Shoals last Friday.
Mr.. R. L. Barmore was in Abbe-
Vile last Saturday on business.
Miss Erin Sharpe visited relatives
in Greenwood last Monday
Misses Thompson and Collins,
two of our teachers, are now at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Gordon.
Miss Margaret C. Dallas, of Ware
Shoals, visited her parents last
weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baskin Winn and
son, Gordon, and Mrs. John Hodges
and daughter, Mrs. E. M. Agnew,
were the welcome guests of Rev.
and Mrs. J. M. Dallas last Friday.
Mrs. w. B. Drake of Shoals juno
ton spent Wednesday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Drake. Little Agnes
Drake went home with her grand
mother to spend several days.
A large force of men are busily
engaged in getting out timber for
the Baptist parsonage, which is to
be built soon.
Mrs. King Taylor, who spent the
holiday season with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Higden, return
ed to her home in Belton last Mon
day.
Mrs. King Taylor and Misses Car
rie and Lila Black spent one day
last week with Mrs. Jodie Uldrick.
The many friends of Col. D.
Humphreys were pleased to see him
on the strets last Tuesday after his
recent severe illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Brown and
Mr.. Henry were business visitors in
Ware Shoals last Thursday.
Mrs. Ida McDill entertained the
teachers at a six o'clock dinner last
Friday night. A few other friends
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-14

Under a military law, command
ing officers in the FRENCH army have
the right to perform marriage cere-
monies:
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-05
history
A. McG. BEEDE :

~, +.
Weseern Sioux worshipsd Earth
prin,arily<as their Deity. And the
difficulty q whiteman finds in har-
'nonizing this fact with numerous
other Indian ideas which seem to the
whiteman inconsistent with this fact
is due 70 the failure Of the whiteman
to get the Indian viewpoint. And
we also meet writer's who are not
able to understand the thrill Of rev.
erence that overwhelms the very sodl
by worshiping what is near-and
diminishes as God is put far away,
unless a Mediator, Christ or hope Of
a Christ comes in. 81
They called the earth Holy Earth
or Mother Earth. They did think
the Rock, with the mountains, was
the oldest part in and with Holy
Earth-and owing partly to difficult
tyin rendering Indian idioms, and
partly to failure to sense such idi-
oms or to an interpreters despair
in trying to get whiteman to feel
Indian attitude, an interpreter may
represent an Indian az saying that
the Rock is older than Earth, as
if Rock were separate from Earth
and preceded Earth in time.
To- the Indian all beings mere One
and all Life, human, animal and
plant, were One, and all Truth and
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-05
Legal Notices.
Motto. for Bid. on County Bead.

Notice Ii hereby given that sealed bids viii
be received BY the County Commissioners Of
Sioux County, North Dakota, Ut the ONCE of
the County Auditor, at Fort Yates. North
Dakota. until the 9th day OF May. l9.i. att
clock p. NJ. for the sale. by said County Of
Sioux. of Fifty Thousand $50. 00.00) Dollars Of
reiunding bonds, the denomination of ssd
bonds to be as follows: Fifty bonds of %
Thousand (el.0Oo.UO) Dollars each. numbered
from one ny TO tfty 80, inclusivelv and
consecutively; numbers toS inclusive to be
payable on the first day OF July, 1872 aud
numbers to 10 Inclusive to be payable on the
first day Of July. 1888, and dve 81 Ut said oonds
July 10 each md every year thereafter until
the last bond shall have become due and pay.
able. All Of said bonds are to bear the date Of
July LIST, 1921. The interest on all Of said bonds
to be puy able semiannually on July LIST and
january LIST of each and every year, 1t the
rate OF six 10Y percent per snnum: interest
payable ut the ofiice Of the County Treasurer
Of the said County of Sioux, Stute Of North
Dakota, ind each and every bond and the
principal thereof to be payable 1t the same
place.
Bids will be opened at the office of the said
county AuQltors IL fOTt 13teS NOFtn UokOtS
on Friday, May 9Th. 1921, VI 3 O'Clock r. n. OF
that day. A cash deposit OF Five Hundred
$500. COZ Dollars to be paid to j. Il. Harmon,
County Treasurer of suid Sioux County, North
Dakota, at Fort Yates North Dakota. must he
made Ut least twenty.four t2N hours before
the opening of the bids, by each and every
bidder. said money.deposit to be returned to
each bidder whose bid is rejected.
The Bourd of County Commissioners reserves
the right to reject any and all bids.
BY order of the Bourd of County Commits
sioners Of said County Of Sioux. State OF
North Dakota.
Dated at Fort Yates North Dakota this 9th
day of April. A. D. 1921
fSEALl F. B. FlSKE,
1882 County Auditor, Sioux County. N. Oak.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-05
Savage wilderness maraudae.

The fisher is, taking It all in all,
said to be the most savage, swift
and GRITTY Of all the marauders of the
wilderness. In nine cases out of ten
perhaps even 90 out of hundred
a fight between a porcupine and a
fisher has but one result: The fisher
eats the porcupfne, And the porcu.
pine is. some defensive fighter. The
fisher fiips the victim over on his
back, annexing MS few spines as posi-
BE in the net, and he has an unpro-
tected throat and belly at the mercy
Of his fhngs.
The porcupine's dcills. 50 deadly to
other animals. have for the fisher com.
paratively few terrors. They do not
poison or inflnme his fesl,. which
seems to possess the faculty Of soon
casting them forth again through the
0kln. ,+tAa ts.4i 4.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-05
water.vorI<s In the Desert.

In the big desert Of Chile there IL
a considerable amount Of brackish
water. but no water TINT either hu-
man beings or stock can drink.
Science, however. has come to the aid
Of the rainless section Of the coun.
try in the form Of an ingenious desert
waterworks, consisting OF series Of
frames containing 10000 square feet
Of glass. The pnnes of glass are ar
ranged In the shape Of a v, and nm
der each pane IN a shallow pan con.
tanning brackish water. The heat OF
the sun evnpor,tes the water, which
condenses upon the sloping glass and,
made pure by this operation, ir runs
down into little channels at the bot.
tom Of the Y and Is carried away Into
the main canal. It Is said that neurly
+ thousand gallons Of fresh, water "a
collected daily by this means.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-05

Beauty and Strength and Good and
Evil were One, and all their-so-
ed-by-whitemen Divinities
were One, and all this ONE was
Wakan Tanka. And all this belief
.wastheir feeling, living, attitude
IN no way like labourad philosophy /.
It was their religion quite well
known by all in which they were
born, reered, married, doctored in
sickness and buried when dead.
landmark this-any Indian, if
speaking freely, would say that this
Wakan Tanka, the Great God, had
His birth from Holy Earth Who is
the ALL-MOTHER, that is, the
sacred Mother Of all beings, plant,
animal, human and divine beings.
| have heard 80 many hundred times
that l know the effarts to scientific
ize, philosophize in-whiteman-te terms
this beautifully sacred, tho impossi-,
BILE primitive Faith, is not warranted
BY the facts. And the finding of
Masonry, modern Occultism, mod
ern Spiritualism Christian Science,
Socialism, etc. among Western
Sioux is far-fetched.
There is similarity among all beliefs
and customs, no doubt there is
unity Of all truth, and primitive
concepts do not preclude reasoning,
and art but fixed facts are facts.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-05-05

bound to grant in
dependence without further delay.
Congressman King is one Of an in.
cfeasing number Of Republicans In the
House who are urging quick action
on Philippine independence. Mr..
King is the author Of a bill which pro-
vides that within one year the Philip
pine government, under presidential
proclamation, may assemble q conven.
tion and frame q constitution.
After the constitution is ratified by
the Filipino people the President may
recognize the Philippine islands as "a
separate and self-governing nation
The transfer of authority is to be
completed within one year. Provision
IL made for safeguarding American in
'vestments in the Philippines and for
the providing Of coallng stations and
submarine bases in the islands by the
United States.
Word from the Philippines is that
the people expect early independence
and will be sorely disappointed IL they
do not get 1t.
mo nation has the right" said Con.
gresham King ito hold another people
in peonage, even though 1t may be
argued by the professoriate that the
condition is simply one Of 'tutelage.'
"A little more observance Of the
golden rule in national and interna-
tional affairs would soon dispel that
desire for exploitation, the fiercest foe
Of free6om in the world today.
when, we went to the Philippines
We declared before the whole world
that we were not actunted by any self
ish desire of conquest or territorial
aggrandizement, but solely by humani-
tartan impulses"
Congressman King called attention
@ the fact that Filipinos are now
raising funds to erect q monument to
Admiral Dewey, which he said was In
directly q tribute to the American peo-
pie as we'll as. to Dewey. He recalled
the cable, that Dewey, had sent to
President Mckinley which was as
I'm my opinion these people Gill.
pinos) are superior in intelligence and
more capable of self government thAn
the natives Of Cuba. and am familiar
with both"
= Congressman King then rccited the
preamble to the Jones law, passed
August 20. 1916. and declared 1t was a
2 definite pledge ot independence. The
preamble stated cit is as 1t has always
been the purpose Of the people of
the United States to withdraw their
sovereignty over the Philippine Islands
: and to recognize their independence as
soon rs stable government can be
established therein"
Congressman King stated there was
no question but that the Filipinos had
established the specified stable gov.
eminent and, therefore. 1t is the
solemn duty Of the United States to
grant the promised independence.