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a. nUAJ A fT V V V V EXCHANGE ECHOES S V V % \\V\V V ^VVV V V\V N In Hands of People. The State. The excuse that the "mob spirit" prevails because the courts do not do their duty and that the lawyers manage to circumvent the law to the advantage of their clients is ancient and somewhat threadbare. Whose agents and creatures are - the courts? T# 4>lin nAATllo tlQTTA Tint. flltP *??TV?pitV ix ywy*v umt v ??? ??x? ? "v to make the courts do their will, that is confession that the people can not rule except by mob violence, which is another ~ way of saying that they are not' fit for self-government. : .' ' ' Who make the laws? The people make them^ff they make them so badly that astute lawyers can set them at naught at pleasure, they would better surrender their state. hood and ask the federal government to give them territorial rule? or call ih some princeling to decree laws and decapitate interfering lawyers anil judges. "frho are the juries? Are they not of tbe people? Do not a considera-l file number of the people evade jury ] duty? Are not statute^ framed to' relieve many good citizens of juryj < duty? In South Carolina numerous - .x. ^ I murders nave Deen commiuea in trie. last two years?(but Bow many white men have been convicted of murder by juries of the people? One suspects thaV five or ten Rer cent of every gang of lynchers will, j "on the quiet," argue that capital! punishment should be afbolished. However, if the. courts and the lawyers are more responsible for1 lynching than are the people and for the people are excuse for toleration of the mob spirit* it follows inevitably that to restore respect for the law, the judged and the lawyers J should toe lynched before persons k accused of crime hpve attention. The people . can have law and / ' I order if they want it. How to get; them* is perfectly well known. No new process requires to be prevented. ' -Men are not lynched in England or in New England. . Law Losing Majesty. N^wiberry Herald.. The supreme court is entirely, correct in granting a new trial in the! Gossett case. These special courts, as Justice Cothran says in delivering, the opinion of the court, are nothing , more nor less than judicial lynch, ings. We said the same thing when the act was first passed by the legislature. The special courts are meant, simply to be' a compromise with* the j . " . mot). Just saying to the mob if youj do nbt take tie law into your hands and lynch the party the state will call ( a special term of the court and go, through the legal form of trying the' * criminal, but the purpose Is to lynch! him according to the forms of law. There' can be no compromise With the mob without the lowering of the dignity of the law, and the tendency is to bring the administration of the law into disrepute. ; Whenever the mob is superior to, .? ,' the regular channels of the law, then' things are coming to a bad state and it is getting time for the good law_ abiding people of this country to A stop and think soberly and well, be_ I cause thl foundation of ?ur very v system of government is being un-, dermined and there will be no protection to life or property. Tj. _ X 11 2 lr 1 Ill is ill j i, wen anu uvcs uui julou I well for the power and strength of j the law when it becomes necesary for J the regular officers of the law'to be running over the country trying to dodge and evade the mab. Read the synopsis of the opinion of the supreme court as delivered by Justice Cothran, and published in this issue an also the article from the Albbeville Press and Banner published in this issue, and wirtten by Col. W. P. Greene, on "Coming Home," and we believe these will call at least some people to sober thought. It is time for some sober thinking, and then for some sober acting in this country^ The majesty of the law is losing some of its majesty. / Cotton Going up But? Listen, Mr. Farmer reader, we . want to give you a little inside tip. Cotton is going to twenty cents but understand we are not advising you to hold for that figure 'cause if you do and (don't get it you will blame (is. But we will bet you. a chew of ' -? ? ?? REALIZATION OF IMPORTANCE MAKES SUCCESS ASSURED More Than 200 Manufacturers Will Have Exhibits In Made-InCarolinas Show. Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 1.?That the general public, as well as the exhibitors, is acquiring a realization of the full importance of the Madein-Carolinas Exposition, giving added assurance of its being a tremendous success in every respect, is the substance of reports coming daily to the executive offices In Charlotte, according to announcment by J. C. Patton executive secretary. With the exposition opening less than two weeks away, the various committees are now working ou final details of their particular tasks, while scores of exhibitors and their representatives are arriving daily to give personal attention to matters preliminary to installing the exhibits. More than 200 manufacturers of these states, representing every line of manufacturing endeavor in this section, will have on display more than 3,000 different articles of finished merchandise, showing the wide diversity of Carolina-made goods; It is estimated by exposition officials that* the capitalization of the companies represented will amount to about $250,000,000. This is the first event of its kind ever held in the Carolinas, and i9 regarded as one of the most important undertakings of public interest accomplished in recent years in the southr eastern states. The interior of the building is now a .scene of constant and intense activity. A staff of men under direction of T. H. Bryant, formerly of Durham N. C., building manager, is affording all proper and possible assistance to the- exhibitors. The principal building, of brick, steel and concrete construction, was finished more than a wees ugu. ine airuwie, enclosing another area of albout 28,000 square feet, and including 35 booths for concessionaires, is ^completed except for the construction of seats for about 2,000 people. ^ Work of decorating the interior was completed today. , "/1 good Virginia tobacco against a pack of Chesterfield cigarettes that we are right. They say that liars ?an figure but figures can't lie. Well, if cotton* don't bring twenty cents wte will always believe that figures do lie, at last the ones we have seen albout this year's cotton.?Chester News, A Blow for Lyncheri. While* -applause is hardly ih. order in the chambers of the Supreme Court, The Record believes it would have clapped its hands vigorously if St had been present when Mr. Associate Justice Cothran, representing the unanimous opinion of the South Carolina Supreme Court, hit the special- term propaganda of the mob spirit with a legal blunderbuss, loaded to scatter. The Court of General Sessions is plainly told a few things 'by the Supreme Court as it reversed its 'decision in the Gossett case and remanded it back to the court below, with instructions to vtry it the next time with "proceedings conformable to law." That refbuke is not alone 'ap plicable to the Abbeville Court of General Sessions, for participating in a "legal lynching" but to many others ih South Carolina. ' Associate Justice Cothran wrote the opinion and the entire court concurred, the new trial being granted on the grounds that Gossett was not given a f#ir trial by the special ' court. Justice Cothran severely criticises the statute under which I -n | special courts are called and cites a i number of incidents to show the accused has no showing under the present policy of special courts. The court also severely criticises i the spirit of mobs and that where ! trials are held under conditions j similapto those obtaining at the Gos sett case it is a "judicial lynching." The AJbbeville court was called to 1 try the Cossetts alone. The Record is 'highly pleased to know that the Supreme Court, and ! all high minded, law abiding citizens are sittng with it "steady in the boat" of Law and Oirder. Were it not for this we might well' despair. The Supreme Court's prompt adtion an unmisakalbly aible and vigorous opinoin in this case, will put the mob on notice that it is not as secure in this State as it5'" appears to think it is.?Columbia Record. 0 > J. B. PRATT TO COLUMBIA Pee Dee Advocate. The friends of James B. Pratt will be interested in the following from the Charlotte Observer of Aug. 15th. Mr. Pratt was reared in Bennettsville. He is a son of Rev. R. N. , Pratt and a brother of R. M. Pratt, of this city. The Observer says: James B. Pratt, chemist, refiner, . and engineer with the Southern Cotton Oil Company, with headquarters in this city for the past 16 years, has been transferred to Columbia, S. C.| to take chaise of the new laboratory being built by his company in that city.' The new laboratory at Columbia is being built for the Columbia district including the state of South Carolina, the largest district of-the company, in wh^ch are operated 14 oil mills. Mr. Pratt will be connected with the engineering department and will have charge'of all of the chemical work in that district During the 16 years he has Ipeen in Charlotte he has been engaged in chemical engineering $nd refining work, spending a part of his fcim^ at the laboratory in this city and much time in traveling over the entire territory of the company, his duties haying been primarily of the chemical* experiment nature. He has visited all of the 78 mi|ls operated b? the Southern Cotton Oil company. :iA""native of Abbeville, S. C., Mr. Pratt 'has lived in several South Car " olipa towns and cities, his father of >irig minister. He is a graduate of tjie chemical engineering department of the University, of South v Carolina receiving the B. S. degree. Mr. Pratt has been an active member of the First Baptist church here c for many years and is a member of the Charlotte Kiwanis club, serving . on some of the most important committees of the club and always tak_ ing an active and prominent part in cluib affairs. During his residence here he has made numerous friends in Charlotte who will regret that he is to leave and he will carry best wishes from many citizens of this city to his new position and residence. Mr. Pratt expects to leave Tuesday night for Columbia. = PEOPLE OP OUR TOWN | Behold the Glassy Loafer with a Furalgatftg Fag pasted to his Lower Lip waiting for a Good .Toh to Turn Up when be Is going to Blow this Hlcli Town. As he Nonchalantly Poses against the Cigar Case, trying to Look like Clarence X. Marshmallow but resembling Charlie Chaplin more, ht'a eae reason for the H. C. of I* /w7?OSHVwouldn't It bk OR.ANO EMER^fcOOVO PAN PC* THEIR paper. wx1mout &E?h?' RSMM oco, so we woukdnt wafta waste A lotta ttms *N ?-VAMP8 work frlttlm* out tHS.ce etatennents kvern week! ote*. vsie sure oo appreciate the good pellers WHO MAKE tm' MAfttt op oropP\U% tN T' PAN UP.fcREBNO i tMtMONtN, WIVTHOUt ftEtN' 1 \ askeo'. i'cl %AV WE OO* / OPERATIVES WORKING Employees of Park Manufacuring Company Return. ^ _____ Rock Hill, Aug. 26.?The Rodk Hill unit of the Highland Park Manufacturing company wiH resume operation Monday, according to an WOMAN IN ODD BUSINESS Make* Fair Income by Depriving Bom of The^r Stings, for Sale to Druggists. A correspondent of the Boston Her Id tells of a woman beekeeper In Auburn, Maine, who for more than a luarter of a century has derived a good Income, not from marketing the honey, but from selling the stlngft. Manufacturing druggists buy them, for each sting contains an Infinitesimal quantity of formic acid, which druggists extract and sell. When the woman begins fhe day's work she lights a peculiar lamp, which throws off a dense smoke. That stupefies the bees, and she collects in a box as many as she thinks she will need for the day. She works In her dining room With all the curtains drawn oxsept the one at the window before which she sits. Firmly fixed In front of her Is a high-powered magnifying Class. She opens the box, gives it a shal^e,and the bees come out The light of the window in front of her attracts them, and they swahn upon it She I reaches out with her left hand,1 plucks a bee from the window, and, holding It under the glass, takes a small pair of tweezers In her right hand and draws the sting. She drops the sting Into a cup of sugar of milk in order to preserve it Then she k\lls the bee by dropping It into a cup of soapsuds^ for a stlngless bee is of no worth in the world. The stings are shipped In. glass bottles that hold five hundred each. , Tho woman tre*nn ronnt of thp fttinm that she draws each day. On the average she dally draws about nine hundred. The greatest number she ever drew in one day Is fifteen hundred. Once she took the stings from one thousand bees In three hour*. Alaska produced minerals to the ralue of $22,000,000 in 1920. * Ninety-seven per cent of American^ t lie without making a wijl. I W. A. HARRIS FUNERAL 8UPPLIE8 EMBALMING and Auto Hearse Service . PHONES Day 395 Night 134 Souther j Summe I Fran I TO g Asheville, N. C. ^ Black Mountain, N. C. jj Beaufort, N. G. . : o Canton, N. G jj Flat Rock, N. G. *. jj Gastonia, N. G. ... i. 0 Hot Springs, N. C ^ Lake Junaluska, N. G. jj Murphy, N. C . . . 1 Saluda, N. G. , | Swannaiioa, N. G I Tuxedo, N. G. YVrightsville Beach, N. G. (8 i Tickets at above rates | with final limit returning | all points on both the goin In addition to the abo' | other resorts throughout Pacific Coast. a Spend a I Mountai I i i I 1 I GOLF, TENNI8, HORSEB/ El B 3 a Convenient schedi | ed information consi | System, or address: a 3 0EBE,aaaJB?BJB?S?aJ5EBESia,S@5J5?r / nouncement made late this afternoon following a meeting of the employees of the plant when by unanimous vote it was decided to return to work. The plant will be opened Monday morning for all wjio care to work, stated the vice president, E. H. Johnson, tonight and it is understood all will return to work under the same conditions and at the same wage scale in force at the time the strike began on June I. The workers here went out with the operatives of the Charlotte units of the company and all union negotiations have been conducted through the Charlotte union, the local strike having been more in the nature of o ofinlrn o!+V/v??V ? WJ Iiwywuvwtv 0V*?AV) ?iViiVUg 1> a |M V" test against low wages. The action this afternoon, it is understood, was to an extent influenced by similiar action taken in Charlotte last night by operatives of the two units of the Park Manufacture ."* . Plumbii . , ; . and Heatii REASONABLE < PRICES Lv ' v < Ralph ^Railway ....ANNOUNCES.... sr Excursioi i ABBEVILLE,; R-T. FARE TO .... $ 9.80 Biltmore, N. C , . .. .10.88 Brevard, N. G .. . 26.79, Bryson, N. G. . .. 11.02 Clyde, N. G. . .... 8.21 Fletchers, N. . ... 8.79 Hendersonville . .. 12.32 Isle of Palms,' , ... 11.45 Lake Toxaway , . .. 17.43 Morehead Citj A'.. 7.64 Skyland, N. G, -. ... .. 10.52 Tryon, N. G. . .8.00 Virginia Bead 19.86 ' Waynesville, I >er cent war tax to be added) ? are now on sale and will contii October 31, 1921. Stopovers o g and return trip. ve points, summer excursion far* the United States, and special Your Vacation In the G ins Of Western North ( LIVE OUTDOORS ....IN.... "The Land Of the Sky 1CK RIDING, MOTORING, FIS MOUNTAIN CLIMBING. ales and through train sei alt nearest ticket agent, R. C. COTNER, District Passenger Agent, SPARTANBURG. S. G. \ ing company there. News of the resumption of work will be hailed with delight by busi- , ness generally as the payroll of the local plant amounts to several thousands of dollars weekly and it* is expected the turning loose of this money will tend to enliven many' lines of busmess.There are about OA A A! 1 11 ?i i * t?uu uperauves employed Dy xne local plant. * UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, . District of South Carolina IN THE "DISTRICT COURT In Bankruptcy. , In the Matter of Sarah Weinraub, Bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that the above named person has been duly adjudged bankrupt, and the first meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt will be held in the office of the undersigned in the city of Abbeville, S. C., on the 5th day of September A. D., 1921, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place the creditors may appear, examine the bankrupt, prove their claims and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. E. M. BLYTHE, Aug. 25 Referee in Bankruptcy. V ' . i ' ' i r ' > < v . v ' 0 ; Iff ^ PHONE 265 ng : = . . . , I Calvert Building 1 Vienna Street \ I Turner 5 ? r System I i Fares I. 5i C. I R-T> FARE I ). ... . $ 9.72 I , . ? ,9.80 |; ..' 14,04 I . . 11.24 I G ., ...... 8.93 1 j, N. G. ... 8.43 I . ' S.,G. ... :.. . . 16.22. 1 . XT n A A Art & j H. U i. i.\jo gj N. G. ... 26.57 ; I 9.22 1 : 7.06 ' J" i, Va . . ' 30.70 g ST. C ,11.67 1 lue until September 30, If re permitted at any and @ js are authorized to many ? ~ attractive fares to the |j lorious ' I ^aruiuia. | ? B HING, CAMPING, AND 1 rvice, and for detail- 1 Southern Railway, | > t I ii t ^ I 'SJSjaiaJ3JSf3i3iaJa'2JpjaMafSi2?/a/sjsif?j^e?ff?' \