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FOUR GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1915.

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GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT
Established 1824.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 1915.
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LET THE PEOPLE SAY.

Did you lose a vest button or two
yesterday by swelling up with pride
when you looked at the picture in The
Piedmont of the proposed new court
house for Greenville county? That
will be, if erected, some building, an
infinate improvement in looks over the
present structure. How much better
the heart of the city will appear when
such a temple of justice replaces the
present unsightly, unsanitary and un-
safe court house, especially if the
shanties between the court house and
the Masonic building are removed.

One thing is certain, however, and
that is that a building such as that
pictured in yesterday's Piedmont can-
not be constructed for the sum avail-
able. Thirty or forty thousand dollars
more will probably be needed.

The original plan, as passed by a
vote of the people of this county, was
to expend sixty thousand dollars in
remodelling the present court house. A
court house commission was appointed
to have charge of this work. It gave
conscientious service, expending much
time, thought and study upon the pro-
ject. Expert advise was obtained.

The commission reached the con-
clusion that it would be wasting the
public funds to expend them, as direct-
ed, upon improvements of the present
building—and we have no reason to
doubt the correctness of this conclus-
ion.

That something should be done goes
without saying. The present building
is a menace to health and the invalu-
able and irreplaceable records stored
in it are in constant danger of de-
struction by fire.

The builiding shown in yesterday's
Piedmont was designed by an archi-
tect of wide and varied experience in
planning public structures. The com-
mission is satisfied that, if erected,
it will be a credit to the city and county
and adequate for its needs for scores
of years to come.

But the sixty thousand dollars ap-
propriated will not build it. How much
more will be needed cannot be known
until bids are received and opened.

When it is known how much more
will be needed, there will be two ways
of proceeding. One will be for the
delegation to make an appropriation
the other will be to go back to the peo-
ple for authority to expend the addi-
tional sums that will be requisite.

The Piedmont's advice is to trust
the people. They voted the sixty
thousand and we believe, when a full
statement is made of the situation,
they will provide the necessary addit-
ional funds. If not, it is their right
to decline, if they wish.
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PRIDE.

A recent editorial in The Piedmont
closed with this sentence: "There are
other things in this world as well, if
not more, deserving of pride as wealth,
position, pedigree or learning." The
The Piedmont has been asked to further
develop that thought.

Of all the manifestations of pride, that
based purely on pedigree is the most
senseless, because none of us chose our
ancestors. Fingy Conners, when laugh-
ed at for his habit of wearing a num-
ber of valuable diamonds, replied with
homely philosophy, "I notice them
what has 'em wears 'em." Something
of that same philosophy applies to
pedigree. But pride in pedigree is only
justifiable to the degree that credit
for a spirit of noblesse oblige can be
traced to it. And there was a world
of meaning in David Grief's saying,
"One marries as good as another only
so long as he does not think himself
better."

Wealth, honestly amassed and em-
ployed with a sense of stewardship;
position, as obtained as recognition of
meritorious service; and learning, ac-
quired without a dwarfing of the un-
derstanding, all justify pride. But
wealth, with a taint on its title and
selfishly used, position secured
through shady means, and learning
without intelligence make pride [illegible]
them ridiculous.

In this day, when as many measure
a man by the size of the check he
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wealth, position and learn-
ing as in those most amply dowered
with them.

Some of these are chastity, honesty,
sobriety, charity, fidelity, and under-
standing, the better such as Soloman
referred when he said, "Get wisdom
and with all thy getting get under-
standing."

A man may be rich, highly placed,
of good pedigree and learned, without
possessing any ot those virtues, or
have them all and be as poor as He
who had not where to lay His head;
of as humble lineage as Martin Luth-
er, the miner's son; as lowly placed as
Robert Burns, the ploughman and
pedigree, as uneducated as Bunyan,
the tinker.

As Burns said, "A man is a man for
all that," but he is not truly "a man
if he lacks those virtues." If he have
them, he has a right to pride, though
without welath, position, pedigree or
learning, infinately better right to
pride than he who has all the latter
and lacks any of the former.
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TEN IN OR SIXTY-FIVE OUT?

It seems that The Daily Piedmont
went too fast. It gave the city fathers
credit for municipal economy in sav-
ing $75, the cost of publishing the
1916 supply bill in this paper. It now
appears that The Piedmont too widely
distributed the credit. Aldermen Har-
ley and Martin, deny credit is due
them. They had nothing to do with
the placing of the advertisement and
knew nothing about it until after it
had appeared in one Greenville daily
and not in the other. We apologize
for giving them the credit to which they
are not entitled and will with equal
promptness apologize to any other city
father who does not want praise not
due him and will make a similar dis-
avowal.

Moreover, it seems the saving was
not so great as we had believed. We
thought those who conceived the idea
had kept as much as $75 in the city
treasury by publishing the supply bill
on only one paper. But the saving is
less. You can figure it out to suit
yourself.

For several years the finance com-
mittee of council has been careful not
to be extravegant in spending city
funds with Greenville's daily papers,
which give an infinate amount of ser-
vice free of charge to the city. Here-
tofore when the supply bill was to be
published, the city clerk and treasurer,
or the agent for the finance committee,
asked for the lowest possible rates for
the services. The two dailies, when
so approached during those years,
agreed to make a charge each of $75
for publication of the supply bill in
both papers. This year The Piedmont
was not asked for a rate. The adver-
tisement was given to the morning pa-
per and we understand its charge was
$140. So the saving over previous
years was only $10 not $75. But as
the advertisement did not get more
than half the circulation similar adver-
tisements in past years when they
appeared in both papers, some mathe-
matician might be unkind enought to
figure it out that, instead of saving $10
the city fathers who are responsible
for the one paper policy really wasted
$65.

Literary societies are always hunt-
ing for live queries to debate. The
above gives them something on which
to try their argumentative powers.
They may be able to decide whether
the city lost $65 or saved $10.
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WILL THEY DO IT.

The court [blurry], being the joint
session of the supreme and circuit
judges of the state, has held by a vote
of 9 to 6 that the bonds proposed to
be issued by Greenville and Richland
counties for good roads are legal,
although the issue was not submitted
to a vote of the people of the respec-
tive counties. The Piedmont regrets
this decision, for it establishes, in our
judgment, a dangerous precedent. It
is interesting to note that three, being
a majority, of the supreme court
judges held the bonds as constitutional.
On the other hand, seven out of ten
circuit judges sustained their constitu-
ionality.

When a majority of the supreme
court holds the bonds unconstitutional,
it can not be denied that there was
most excellent reason to doubt the val-
idity of their issue. Chief Justice Gary
and Associate Judges Watts and
Fraser have so held. The Piedmont
will later refer in detail to the reason-
ing of these judges.

The fact now is that the courts of
South Carolina have concluded that
the bonds may be constituionally is-
sued. What will be done is now up to
the members of the Greenville delega-
tion in the legislature and to the high-
way commission. No one doubts the
integrity of purpose of these gentle-
men, and yet it may well be doubted
[upon?] after the decision confirming
their power whether it is judicious for
them to exercise it.

The proposed bond issue is very
huge. Shoud it be injuidicously spent,
the burden upon the county would be
very great. As a matter of exped-
iency it would seem advisable to issue
a small part until there is more
positive assurance than is now had of
the best character of construction.

But The Piedmont again urges that
no issue be made until the question has
been submitted to the vote of the peop-
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In the meantime the legislature meets
again in few weeks, and can quickly
amend the law so as to to required sub-
[illegible] to the people. The members
of the legislative delegation will hard-
ly contend that the voters of the coun-
ty can not intelligently determine what
is best for themselves.

So important a matter as this bond
issue should not be left to the determi-
nation on a majority of a delegation.
The court in its decision above refer-
red to says that the constitution
guarded the state as a whole and
cities and [illegible] against bond issues
except by a vote of the people, but
made no such provision in the case of
counties. The court concluded it had
[its?] right to supply the ommission. But
the principle is the same, and the vot-
ers of the county can well demand
that their representatives do not take
advantage of the ommission existing,
and undetake to decide for the people
what they are best able to decide for
themselves.

Will the delegation do what pru-
dence and good judgment require and
submit the issue to the people, or
will they act upon the authority the
court says they have. The Piedmont
sincerely hopes that the delegation
will recognize the advisability of om-
mission.
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HOME OWNERSHIP.

The Piedmont published yesterday
an individual from The State urging the
importance of ownership of the homes
by the mill workers of this state. This
is in accord with the views of this pa-
per, as heretofore expressed. Says
The State: "Non-ownership of home
is a greater evil in the cotton mill
communities than is even child labor."

The two great evils today menacing
South Carolina are the illiteracy of
many of its voters and the fact that
a majority of them do not own homes.

How can mill workers be fairly en-
couraged today to purchase homes if
the value of their investments, if the
result of their sacrifices and savings
is entirely at the mercy of their em-
ployers? A mill worker at great sac-
rifice has purchased a home adjacent
to the mill at which he works. In the
very fact of this ownership, he has
valued new ambitions and aspirations.
In the advancement of these, he as-
sociates himself with other workers to
present from time to time to his em-
ployer questions of wages and condit-
ions of labor and living. The employ-
er on his part regards the employe as
inimical because of this association
and discharge[s?] him. The mill worker
then sees he must sell out his home
and move on, or else announce com-
plete subservience to his employer. The
very independence which he sought
through home ownership has been
made a means of apprehension and
enforced dependence.

The State is right, home ownership
is much to be desired. But it is wrong
in not recognizing that there are ques-
tions affecting the relation of the employ-
er and employe which must be settled
before the mill worker can be advised
to buy the home. He must be assured
of a reasonable permanency of his em-
ployment. He must know that the as-
sertion of his right to join a labor
organization will not be the cause of
his discharge, and he must feel that
there is law which will fairly guard
him in his employment so long as he
justly and efficiently does his work.
The right of arbitrary discharge is not
consistent with home ownership by
mill employes.
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Reports from Washington say that
the wedding of the president dawned
dismal with drizzling rain. See where
the president made his mistake in not
coming to Greenville for the cerel-
mony?
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The publicity staff must be aging
Mrs. Galt rapidly. Remember they
said last summer she was 48 years of
age, now the marriage license applica-
tion says she is forty-three.
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London is said to be hopeful over
the Balkan front. Has evidently
caught something of the spirit of op-
timism that the Russian censor always
allows to slip by.
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Shucks! What sense is there in
wanting to be president? Wilson
has to get a marriage license just
like an ordinary person.
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Thirteen women were robbed while
shopping in Washington the other day.
Who will that be unlucky for? The
victims or the victimizers?
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They are accusing Comissioner
Wood of New York of graft. Great
are the marvels of science that can
graft gold and silver into wood.
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Three men have been arrested charg-
ed with conspiracy to blow up the
Wetland canal? [illegible] Wetland what are
they going to do with them?
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The senate recently confirmed a
dead man as postmaster of a Virgin-
ia town. We have seen some towns
that would suit pretty well.
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Reports of the losses of one or two
thousand Turks are calling that heavy.
Well it is according to whether you
had to carry them or write it down.
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One week from today the kids will
begin the jealous task of destroying
their Christmas toys.
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A Creature With A Bad
Reputation, Tho Underserved.
By
A. L. P.

Luckily [blotted] upon as a creature
to be shunned, and persecuted by nearly
everyone, and insect which has re-
ceived the [blotted?] title of "devil's
horse." There is no foundation, what-
ever for such a name, and those who
have known it only by that term will
be surprised to know that the real
name of the animal is "praying
mantis," and while we look upon it
here with suspition, in China it is said
to be regarded in the light of a sacred
thing.

The mantis, if we judge aright, is
hatched from [blotted] of a mass of eggs
glued together with some solid surface
in two rows, held together somewhat
like a [shock?] of grain without the
weather can[blotted] is hatched in almost
the same [blotted] of the adult, therefore
it is unnecessary for it to pass thru
a pupa stage like the butterfly and
some other locusts.

The neck or more properly the pro-
thrax or [blotted] of the insects' chest
a long and awkward [curving?], and as
the creature flies above on summer
evenings they have a very peculiar
apparance and one almost expects to
see the [blotted] center of gravity dis-
placed by long [back?], whose rigidity
forbids it being bended in flight, like
that of the [blotted].

All insects have six legs, and the
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mantis is no exception, but he can
stand on four very firmly, with the
other two drawn in near the long neck
like the front part of the body, which is
held almost erect waiting for prey.
When the proper victim comes in [view?]
the mantis with a quick movement of
the forelegs, or arms, seizes it, and
bears it to the mouth, eating it in
much the same position as a squirrel
with a nut.

This animal has an agilely jointed
head, that permits a greater freedom
of motion than other insects have, and
it is turned grotesquely and surpris-
ingly to view an intruder. This gives
the creature a very intelligent almost
human air, and adds such a touch of
weirdness to its general appearance
that it is probably recognisable to
part of the bad [blurry] in which it is
held.

The mantis is a rapid runner
on foot and has been branded as
the "devil's horse." It is really quite
as harmless as a grasshopper and may
be handled with inpunity. Some of
them are green and some grey.

The creature may be kept in cap-
tivity for some time if fed on various
insects, and given an occassional drink
of water. When necessary to lift it,
the long neck makes a most conven-
ient handle.

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A WORD OF COMMENDATION
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In Regard to The Piedmont's Stand on
[Union?] Labor

Editor The Daily Piedmont,

Dear Sir, Please allow space in
your paper for these few lines. I must
say I have changed my opinion of The
Daily Piedmont partly in the face of
recent developments, namely the Jud-
son mill strikes and the discussion of
the [Freese?] case. I must say you are
the only editor in this community that
has tried to uphold the right of the
people to organize if they wished to—
a right when the mill overseer does
not object to in his words—but his
actions prove his words are false. You
have won the unwavering freindship
of the mill people in Greenville by
your fairness in the discussion of their
trouble and furthermore they are a peo-
ple that know how to appreciate these
sympathies. I believe you have the
good of the people at heart and may
[blurry] hasten [this way?] when there will
be more who will stand for their rights
regardless of capital and its influence.
I see the editor of the Fountain
Inn Tribune does "unionism is com-
ing and they might as well take it
easy."

I believe God is with us and the
right shall win, O ye sons of greed,
and their mouth [blurry]! Can you
stand before us at the judgment and
say "I treated you right."

For "if a man gain the whole world
and lose his own soul, what shall it
profit him." I want to say further
there has been some facts brought to
light in the [Freese?] case that ought to
be investigated by the grand jury and
if they fail [blotted] they will neglect
their duty.

Thanking you, I remain,
CHAS. P. ABBERNALE,
Mill operative
Greenville, S. C., Dec. 17, 1915.

Scintillations

If Georgia is not in fact a prohibi-
tion state after May 1st, next, it will
not be because of a lack of laws
covering that subject—Columbus En-
quirer Sun.
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It does no harm to wish Henry Ford
luck—Anderson Mail.
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France has her [aims?] high. She says
she will never make peace till Alsace
and Lorraine, taken from her by Ger-
many in 1871, are won back. It may
turn out that way; but just now Ger-
many is the only nation in the war
that is winning territory, and she has
won quite a lot.—Newberry Observer.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell contin-
ues to keep his telescrope trained on
the planet Mars, with the result that
he is steadily gathering evidence that
convinces him that the Martian's are
building canals on a scale which ren-
ders Panama's engineering feat pal-
try by comparison, but we are not told
to what extent, if any, the constuc-
ters up there are troubled by [slides?].—
Virginia Pilot.
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New York is to have a sound-procl-
apartment building. New York is
attempting to discover that there is no
such thing—Detroit Free Press.
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Open up your pocketbooks. Old
South wants his [toll?].—Talatka Post.
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When it come to putting over ad-
vertising [stories?] we guess its about a
toss-up between Henry Ford, P. T.
Barnum and "Billy" Sunday.—Oma-
ha Bee.
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Certainly it doesn't pay to take
anything for granted. A street car
almost ran over us today because the
motorman thought we had sense
enough to get off the track—Tampa
Times.
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The exhibits in the toy windows
seem to indicate that little lead sol-
diers are as popular as ever—and
there are no signs of substituting
[blurry] for Noah's Ark.—Even-
ing Wisconsin.
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A hotelkeeper in [Torrcon?] who
charged [$6,500?] for a dinner has been
sent out of the country by [Carransa?]
That sounds like a square meal at a
national convention city.—Los An-
geles Times.
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The cowboy made rich on a start of
even Texas cows has nothing on the
Waldorf-Astoria visitors boasted into
[blurry] by a single Wall street bull—
Washington Post.
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Whoever is responsible for the Shi
[??] [Yuan Shi Kiti?] failed to inject
enought to cause the old man to shy
at a crown.—[Park?] Hill Herald.
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A foreign magistrate announces
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What Other Say.
Mending Our Legal Fences.

The attorney general of the United
States asks congress to enact legisla-
tion giving the government authority
to do two things for which at present
it lacks power:

First, to seize and retain arms and
ammunition that may be in the process of
exportation in defiance of the presi-
dent's proclamation of an embargo.

Second, to make it a specific crime
against the United States to place
bombs or other explosives with evil
intent on vessels sailing from Ameri-
can ports.

It's an odd situtation that exists
now. The president may prohibit the
export of arms and ammunition to be
used in connection with military ex-
peditions, as he did lately in regard
to Mexico, but he has no authority to
seize them in order to make his order
effective. The blowing up at sea of
ships sailing from our ports is an
offense that appears never to have
been contemplated or imagined by law
makers in the past.

These are only two examples of the
gaps in our laws revealed by recent
war events. Congresss should see to
them at once, as well as to the mend-
ing of any other holes in our legal
fences—Augusta Chronicle.
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Filipino Boys Like Baseball

That Moro youngsters are now in-
clined to settle their differences with
boxing gloves, instead of [blurry] as
did their fathers before them to the
law of the knife, is one of the more
interesting of the features of letters
received from time to time at the ex-
centive bureau from James K. McCall,
acting division superintendent of the
Cotabato?] schools. Baseball has like-
wise made a big hit among the Moro
kids, and Mr. McCall reports that this
game has struck the [Piang?] Agricul-
tural school since last December "like
an epidemic."

Mr. McCall cites one case where the
son of one of the influential families
in some way [blurry] upon a little or-
phin Tao boy, who immediately call-
ed for gloves, putting one pair him-
self and offering the other to the [blurry]
[blurry] son. After the contest, which
lasted fifteen mintues, the wo boys
shook hands and walked away arm in
arm.

The boys at Piang School, Mr.
McCall says, play baseball before
breakfast and continue it during the
day in spare time until dark.—Manilla
Times.
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Good Money for the Crops.

"When figures get about so big,"
ruminates The Lenoir Topic, "they
cease to be interesting." We imagine
that the figures given by the gov-
ernment yesterday, showing that the
values of the principal crops of the
United States this year was $5[blurry]-
[778,200?] can properly be classified as
"so big," but doubtless the public will
find them interesting whether or not
they are comprehensible. One way to
attain an approximate idea of what
they mean is by using the per capita
basis. Presuming the total popula-
tion to be in the neighborhood of a
hundred millions, we have a valuation
of $55 for every man, woman and
child in the American possessions. By
comparison with the total for last
year we find an increase of nearly
$[5?]00,000,000, a wholly comfortable in-
crease. So far as the famers of the
country are concerned there was no
mockery in the Thanksgiving procla-
mation, and since the prosperity of the
farmer's the brightest of [benisons?] to
all other workers, it is clear that the
United States has had a good year—
Charlotte Observer.
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LIFE ON MARS.

Two new canals were added to the
[Deimos?] system five or six years ago, ac-
cording to Dr. Percival Lowell, as-
tronomer. Continued observation of
these canals since that time convinces
Lowell that they are artificial con-
struction and "faultless curvature, be-
yond the power of unassisted nature
to contrive."

We'll have to take Lowell's word
for the existence of these canals.
What impresses us just now is the
perfection he claims for "human" en-
deavor over nature's ways—Durham
Sun.
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"XMAS.

Don't write it "Xmas."

'Xmas' is not only not a good word,
but it doesn't mean anything and
doesn't really stand for anything.

At best the word is flipping slang
and its use as a substitute for Christ-
mas, which word does mean some-
thing and is of sacred origin, consists
of sacrilege.

Christmas sounds better, looks bet-
ter in print and is quite as easy to
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HEALTH TALKS
WATER
By WILLIAM BRAD[LEY?]

A COLORLESS or faintly turbid
fluid with a rather acrid, copper-
sulphate taste and an odor sug-
gesting old fossil fish is what sanis-
[cian?] call "notable water"—that is a
pure drinking water. Chemically pure
water consists of two atoms of a
light, frothy gas called hydrogen,
firmly clutching a lone but undaunted
atom of oxygen — together with
traces of chlorine from sewage con-
tamination, lime from earthy contact,
and sometimes a dash of [blurry] or
other preservative to give it body.

H2O, or "agua aura," as doctors
call it in prescription writing, is often
dispensed in bottles with a picture
of a dainty lady about to sip the
necter of a fairy pool on the label, at
about ten [pentines?] the [bumper?]. The
cost is due to the sparkle, which is
imparted by injecting the water with
carbonic acid gas, or as it is chemi-
cally symbolized, CO2 carbondiox-
ide, or, more liberally translated
Come On, It always Takes Two to
make a Crowd.

Water is Medicine

Proper lubrication of the human
machinery requries at least four
pints of [patanie?] water daily. Chronic
water [stintling?] generally means exces-
sive wear and tear on the machinery.
You must keep the engine well oiled
if you would get 100 per cent effi-
ciency out of her. When you stint on
water drinking dry rot—autointoxica-
tion—is apt to overtake you.

More politic synonyms for dry rot
are "billiousness", "dyspopsia," "sick
headache," rheumatism," "that tired
feeling," "torpid liver" and general
peevishness.

Water with meals now has the
saction of dietetic authorities as

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cabinet secretaries. It aids
when you are thirsty; [illegible]
down your food with any li
first, slowly, [methodically?],
need be; [masticito?] each mor
there is in its task do a le
of [degluition?] and, then th
drink, iceless.

We are a chemic compound[s. It be-]
hooves us to keep saturated
vehicle of chemical reaction

Some people lavishly in
selves early every morning
water. The practice is u
must be healthful—an old
our part, we agree with the
jurist who couldn't see any
chilling his nice warm skin
water as long as he could aff
bath.

QUESTIONS AND ANS[WERS]
Certified Milk

You referred to certified [milk in]
one of your talks about
in children. Certified milk [costs ??]
cents a quoart in our town. [Is there]
anything cheaper to use as [a substi-]
tute?

Answer—Milk from
tested cows, or pasteurized
inspected milk would be che[aper.]

Hernia

Can hernia be cured by
And is there an injection
that one can take without
up in bed?

Answer—Umbilical hernia
puture) in infants somet[imes]
appears under a carefully
support. It is doubtful if in
injection treatment which
any benefit.

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Dr. Brady will answer all questions pertaining to Health. [If your]
question is of general interest it will be answered through these columns.]
If not it will be answered personally if a stamped, add[ressed ?? is en-]
closed. Dr. Brady will not prescribe for individual [diagnoses.]
Address all letters to Dr. William Brady care of The Daily [Piedmont,]
Greenville, S. C.

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OUR COUNTRY by our Pre[sident]
A HISTORY OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE
By Woodrow W[ilson]
Copyright, 1915, by the [McGee?] Newspaper Sym[posium]
Copyright, [illegible] 1915 by [illegible] & Brother

A Profitable Neutrali[ty]

Mr. Jefferson had surrounded him-
self with capable men, whose ability
and integrity the whole country recog-
nized.

His Secretary of the Treasury was
able, so sound had his management of
the finances proved, to arrange for the
payment of the fifteen millions due
for the purchase of Louisiana without
asking congress to lay an additional
tax.

"I greatly fear that a separation
would be no remedy," wrote George
Cabot to those who would have led in
the Northern secession. The source
of our evils "is the political theories
of our country and ourselves. We are
democratic altogether," and can expect
nothing sanitary while we retain max-
ims and principles which all exper-
ience and reason prounounce to be
absurd."

"It is impossible to alarm, much less
to convince, a large portion of the
Federalist party here of their danger,"
explained Mr. [Higgison?] to the radi-
cals in Congress. "A small part only
of those called Federal are sound in
their opinions and willing to look into
their real situation. Many even of
our own party have as much yet to
retain as to learn. They have yet
much of the democrat's taint without
them."

Even extremists say that they would
have no following in the revolutionary
courses, and would have to wait for
some grosser provacation, "which
should," as Mr. Cabot said, "be very
generally felt and distinctly under-
stood as chargeable to the conduct of
our Southern masters, such, for ex-
ample, as a war with Great Britain
manifestly provoked by our rulers."

Almost the whole country outside
their narrow [enterie?] rejoiced in the
acquisition of the lands beyond the
Mississippi."

To the southerner and the westerner
it seemed a mere constitution of des-
tiny, inevitable and not to be debat-
ed.

The President turned, with such
case of conscience as he could com-
mand to other things.

"Other things," it turned out, were
to involve still more Federalist-like
[illegible] as affairs shifted; were to in-
volve, in the end a new set of trou-
bles with England and France which
were as serious as those which had
made such mischief in Mr. Adam's
time, and which as inevitably led

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straight toward wh[torn]
federal activity in [torn]
pet averstions of the [torn]
every man who held [torn]
sonian creed in polit[ics?] [torn]

Had Europe been [torn]
might have had ho[torn]
ceace unchecked and [torn]
sessment. But Fra[nce] [torn]
Europe afire, and [torn]
out, was to be draw[torn]
was not to be su[torn]
neutral, lest her ad[torn]
Europe's ruin.

All the world being at war,
the only flag under which
could make their way into
pers.

It was the recognized la
tions that every ship that ca[ried a]
flag of a beligerent was
be taken and made prize of
any cruiser.

England's merchantment
abroad upon the seas with
[blurry], because England's
inated the ocean waterways
of the ports of the continent
or against them.

French and Dutch ships dir
ture out of port.

Spain gave up her attempt[ed]
[??] dollars and the ing
Peruvian pines out of the
der convoy in her own but

That and all the rest of the [shipp-]
ing trade of the world fell [the Ameri-]
can skippers who were free
to go where they pleased. The
ed cargoes of every kind
quarter of the globe, put in
at American ports, in order [that they]
might there be reshipped;
them thence to their destin[ations.]
neutral goods in neutral bot

The products of both Indian
in at the ports of Holland, S[pain, and]
France without lot or hindr[ance]
only Yankee skippers brought
and made their way by river [and can-]
nal to the markets of every
and principality whose resour[ces sep-]
arate was using them to subdue [them.]

Those who fought him
fronted by the neutral trade, by
dous crisis, merely war diag
veritable fraud of neutral
wbich the laws of war were
ed.

Bonaparte could never be
less this uinterrupted steam [of monies?]
into his coffers were [illegible].

Woodrow Wilson.

MONDAY.
The Face of War

FLASHES OF FUN

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A Family of Setters

Farmer Jones was tugging away
with all his strength at a barrel of
cider trying to get it up the steps. He
yelled at the top of his voice for help
but no response. After much sturg-
gling he accomplished the task, and
just then the whole family put in
appearance.

"Where have you been?", inquired
the farmer to his wife.

"I was setting the bread."

"And You?" addressing his eldest
boy.

"Was in the shop seeing a [sow?],"
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[column 7, bottom article]

"Out in the barn seeting a

"And you Hiram"

"Up in the garret setting

"And now Master Rufus, [where]
were you and what were you [set-]
ting?"

"Out on the doorstep setting
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Bear or Sheep?

"I know I am a perfect be
manners," said a young farme[r's]
sweetheart.

"No, indeed youare not J
have not hugged me yet,
more of them than a bear."
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