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T; ' --v - .x . r %_ & Keprescntatiufi ftfivusyapei fSuuers Lexington and trie borders ai rpp Surrounding <3outme& tihe a Siuubet. VOL. XLI. LEXINGTON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY JUNE 28, 1911 ?4 . GLOBE BRY GOOBS COHPARY, . - TXT. TZ. n^OlSTC^ZTOIT, orIE&., ^ ;' ttfABO MAIN STREET, - - - - - - COLUMBIA, N. C. aj Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. ": ????i iBllL" "Freeman" Declares There Is lore or Less Organized Band, Which Udidertakes to Secure/ Order bv Unlawful v. x ~ " V Means. To the Editor of The State: The well informed and observant citizen who has kept abreast of the inM ner workings of the old "Dutch Fork" -of Lexington county during the last * decade, knows that it is not a lawless community per se. As a matter of fact, the opposite is really the case, with the exception of a small minority, to be dwelt upon, later on, in this article. The pity is that a few people can give a county an unsavory odor. . M order, among the whites, is rare. This section is composed almost exclusively of Germans, in origin, whose blood flows rather sluggishly and who are normally not of a bellicose or treacherous disposition. During Revftlnf.mnnrp f?ara trhftn whitAA afl a rule were fired by the spirit of freedom, which winced under British oppression, these people generally were I i aiiii | THAT C X i rai j$j By a careful J I say is rig] x A Yd wide Bleaching yi 40 inch Sea Island 2,000 yds Apron Gifcghams. j Beautiful Checked Dimity., ill Not a piece of these go< *1 rrA o? QM icoo uuau iu auu w ru. PP Ladies Look! 3 yds long w k#| Raffle on the Side, Curtain t iVi Curtain Scrim Pll Curtain Net, in All Colors.. pU Just Arrived: One Case Eact Lfl and Lawns. Special while Kl Cases Last Only WJ 12 1-2 and 15c Flowered Law MM White India Linons 6, 8, | This line | ty Hat if you | 1616 Main liSl Columbia, S m\ apathetic and averse to war., They enjoyed no voice in the government under which they lived. They knew , little of the, merits of the controversy between the colonies and the mother country. They had received their grants of land from the king, and they aid no', care to have them taken away by a war which little concerned them. In short, thev did not care to fight un less there was a good reason .for it from their own viewpoint. x?rom that day to this the vast majority have been industrious, economical and peaceful. There are no large and wealthy planters among them, but many are well-to-do, and most of them are independent. There is an element which does its own work exclusively, and which either cannot secure negro labor or will not have it. There is an old tradition that the negroes view this cliss as "poor bucra," and between the two tin re is a marked and distinct line of An/1 AAMOi/lAroKlo Q M ?m AQl fcvT uicava^c auu wiioiuciauiu Huiwugi^, From this cause haye sprung most of the fatalities which have stained the name of the good old Dutch Fork. The white man is supreme, and the negro must liye, like Oae ?ar's wife, above suspicion, or take the consequences. As is usual, when the oyercheck |s slackened upon the neck of the angry mob, its depredations become more aggressive and heinous until it ramifies in directions, which, at first were never dreamed of. Enough has been whispered around, for a number of years, to convince any reasonable man that a more or less well defined gang of "white-caps have 1 \ H - - ~ - ?j ' ,^-.V - U IMER OLUMBIA HA THURJ kUflBaniflBHBBMflaHiiaBUHnazBL L examination of nr hit. Visit Hopkins 5c yd They are Beauties. .... .5c yd Chambry and 5c va hams. Every child the 5c yd knows these goods are >ds worth where for 10c yd., and t it but Hopkins says Yd Wide Madras and P ith a Nice 12 l-2c. Come and see t >nly .. .29o MISSCS* DrC ^ We have too many of i 60c Ones only l of Calico 75c Ones only i the Two 1.00 Ones only . .3 l-2c yd 1.25 One9 only ns Sc 1.50 Onesonly 11, 18c yd They are Beauties. ! must be colsed c don't come to Hg St., 1 >. C. VI assumed the responsibility of administering law upon the helpless as they see fit. A few unnamed bat thoroughly reliable cases in point may be cited by way of historical illustrations. Some years ago, on a cold winter night in November or December, an old negro, near Bear Creek in the upper portion of the Butch Fork, bad partaken of his usual sapper of a flitch of bacon and a corn hoe-cake, when he and his family retired to thpir humble beds for a shODOSedlv restful slumber. Toward midnight, with little or no warning, the "regulators" broke down bis door and invaded his home. Even the wicked old Fagin, in "Oliver Twist," with murder in his heart, recoiled. as he looked apon the innocent babes and their sleeping mother, and whispered to himself, "Not tonight." Bat these "white-caps" had no such "compunctious visi tings." A little pile of cotton was quickly saturated with kerosense and set on fire. As the flames lit up the cabin room the old man was brutally shot to death like a dog, while the rest of the family barely escaped with their lives. Thi motive for the cowardly assasinatiou was never definitely known, but the one usually assigned was that the < negro had, on a quasi public occasion expatiated on the perverted rights of his race and that he intended to stand up for his. The next case was that of a highly , respected farmer of the lower Dutch \ Fork, who had chided a young negro of rather impudent proclivities, about hunting on his land contrary to order. They parted, when the negro, at a Il l P i ULM S EVER HAD aBHHHaaaBHBBHHBBBHHBHaHi ini? ggPl^iF^ 1 a j prices and the qj i, 1616 Main Str MnnHBMBHMMKmaMBBnHDn Ladles9! Utility Ging- Ladies' Drawers... > world over Ladies'Gowns * hey? are worth Ladie8' White Undl 8c yd Ladies' White Unde 'ercals worth Ladies'White Unde hem. .only 9c Corset Covers, Jus SSCS White Quilts from, these. We have the Fin 39c Goods in the City w 0Vi 27-inch Embroidery -79c ha9 never been hear 89c only 98c 17 inch Embroidery Other Embroideries MIUUI tut to make room tpkins'. This lin ?rfe distance, smarting under the n bake adminicle red kirn, sent a roc whizzing into the back of the farmer' brain, from which he soon died. Th white people this time turned ont e: muie and hnnted the culprit witn th ? tenacity of blood hounds. All of i i sudden the chase ended, everybod; ' oamail 'iiaHaAcd tlio no??n Vi o I OVVWW U?VtOUVU| UiiU VUO UCKI \j ua j never been heard of since?and neve will. J The next in point of time had ever ' appearance of being carefully plannei " and fearfully executed. It was one o ithe mo9t dastardly, for boldness an< dare devilry, perhaps, in the crimina annals of the state. [ The victim lived on the sontherr shore of the Saluda river, but enough leaked out, in the due course of time to make it prac:ically sure that his death was hatched up and perpetrated by Dutch Forkers. The man markec for slaughter was not a saint by any means, and those who crossed his way soon realized tnat he was not a man tc take liberties with. If reports are irue, two attempts to murder Dim were made before he finally bit the dust. He rana little water mill near hi9 house, and on the fatal day he was there at his usual chores. A colored woman, passing from the house to the mill with Jii9 dinner, heard the rustling of leaves in a thick undergrowth ne t her path, and she espied two white men, with rifles. She hurried to the mill and reported to her employer. Game to the core, he immediately shut down and proceeded to investigate. As he climbed the hill nearbv he fell dead with his breast full of shot I55S5~S5gr5S5g?5r5r ihbri ) WILL SfECiif i es i ggJWBMaBI I I II ! ! I I ?CS31 I I???MU iiality of my mere jet,from the 29th l?n m m T/in f I riavw^i 0 19c Towels 2 for . ?.. .39c, 79, 98c Towels only . srskirts 39c. Towels only.. irskirts 79c Towels only.. irskirts 98c ??? 1(M t 19c and 39c ? , n 25c Kind only 69c t0 348 Bleached zt est Line of these Pepperels 10-4 1th no Exceptions. ....... ?the like of which d of in Columbia See that Negl: 25c yd gee ^}ia^ i oo ! 10c yd Entirely too and Lacea Lower. onlv m mm i Tor our ran Line e closed out reg '?/*?r>rx>r i: s- The people of that section still discuss, k rojnd their firesides, daring the long ; b winter nights, the daring nonchalance e with which that monstrous deed was q perpetrated in broad daylight. The e theory generally accepted is that three a white men from the Dntch Fork side y of the river rowed their little skiff s across the stream and booked it in a r thick underbrush on the opposite side. Rumor has always contended that the y men who were seeking to imbrue their 3 hands in the gore of their fellowman f carried no chalice or sense of wrong in 3 their hearts, but were executing their 1 part of a pact for a few paltry, dirty little Bheekels. Horrible as was the i bloody deed, nothing was ever done, i nor any concerted or determined effort , made to unravel the mystery, j The latest chapter in this dark and I dismal book was recently written and I is still fresh in the memories of readers ' of The State. Several barn9 had been ' burned in quick succession and sus> picion fell upcwi a negro in the neigh5 borhood. The mob visited his house i in the dead of night and asked him to s come tortb. His wife advised him ro shoot for his life, and the result was i that the leader of the mob?who happened to be a substantial and promi> nent citizen of the neighborhood?was : sent to meet his God, in the twinkling of an eye, and widow in weeds left bei hind, to weep oyer his fate. i It would seem that the old Dutch Fork has paid her full price, and cries ior a surcease 01 sorrow, wmcn nave hung, from time to time, like a funeral pall over her fair dominions. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished f 1 I IJAS !i MI a. i.. nyi handise you will se Tnvi a avi nn4"J 1 4-V.o Ui U UUU Uil UUU11 UJJLt; Towels Too many 1. gc Little Boys' q Little Bo^ s' EEEEz This is one I Sheeting yjaabunch 4 00 Men's C id Uubleached. 3 50 .Special 25c yd 3^' Chi^ic 3 50 L idles' 3.00 igee Shirt only 39c 2 00 " Shirt only 79c 2 25 " many 50c Work Shirts ..39c Children's ?. You will miss lardiess of cost. C S1616 Colt - - - 3 n i - - ? ITT .1 i ~ for that this last catastrophe will open the eyes of the public to the stern truth that mob law is a relic of barbarism and is bound to end in drinking the cop of gall and bitterness to its very dregs. The courts and the law, poor as they are, must be respected. They will prove effective if backed by a strong and healthy public sentiment. mi i. j: ?j ? ? xue aMMjuuuiug unu uiscouraging feature of the above cases was the apparent indifference and pitiable weakness of the officers of the law, whose sworn duty it was to ferret out these ciimes, and if possible Turing the guilt/ to the bar of justice. Let us hope that the sad death of an otherwise useful citizen shall stand is a warning to the mob, that its vei geance must come to grief, unless the very fabric of government and civfized society fall about our ear9 in hope less chaos. Freeman. Scholarship Examinations The echolarshiD examination for Winthrop college will be hold at the court house on July 7, 1911, and the examinations for the University of South Carolina and Clemson college will be held at the court hou3o on July 14, 1911. All applicants will please be present at 9 o'clock a. m. I desire to say also that the College of Charleston offers a scholarship worth fifty dollars to any competent and worthy young man. This examination will be h Id when the others are held. A. D. MARTIN, C. S E. "KINS' 1 ?a??a?? ? MiBmryam I* ' 1 $ ( _________ 1*41 ' e that what i Sale closes. ? m 53 00 Overalls Special 79c LJ Overalls only 15c Shirts only 15c t)Q iS! SHOES! M line on which we can save RJj of money. ufi )xfords 3.29 fVl ; 44 2.79 [Ml : 2.29 LJ : " 1.69 M ^ Oxfords 2.79 RJJ 2 U LJ 109 [Vj ' 90 ? Oxford* still Lower. M * dd1 X a very pr@t? ft ome see if. * I* aI IfVUI i i Main St.3 " H imbia, S. C. ,hV Ife