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ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. l. m. grist's sons, Pnbu.hers.; % 4amilS Sacspapti;: 4" <1>< promotion of (hi; political, Social, ^grieulfural and Commercial Jnteresls of lh< jpeopty. j terVinolf?Lpv!,"tkce^""' ^ ESTABLISHED 18557" YORKVILLE, S.~ C., TUESDAY, J A 2ST UARY 2(>, 1915. NO. 8 am /& CHARLES 1 with illustration: OF SCENES IN THE .1 CHAPTER I. Close to the serried backbone of the | Cumberland ridge through a sky ofl mountain clarity, the sun seemed hesi- I tating before its descent to the nonzon. The sugar-loaf cone that towered above a creek called Misery was pointed and edged with emerald tracery where the loftiest timber thrust up its crest plumes into the sun. On the hillsides it would be light for ' more than an hour yet but below, where the waters tossed themselves 1 along in a chorus of tiny cascades, the light was already thickening into a cathedral gloom. Down there the "fur- ' l rlner" would have seen only the rough course of the creek between moss- 1 W velveted and shaded bowlders of j [ _ titantic proportions. The native would have recognized the country road in ! these tortuous twistings. A great block 1 of sandstone, to whose summit a man ' Mm standing in his saddle could scarcely ' reach his fingertips, towered above J the streams, with a gnarled scrub oak clinging tenaciously to its apex. Loftily on both sides climbed the mountains cloaked in laurel and timber. Suddenly the leafage was thrust aside from above by a cautious hand, and a shy, half-wild girl appeared in the opening. For an insiani sne nailed. with her brown fingers holding back the brushwood, and raised her face as though listening. As she stood with the toes of one bare foot twisting in the gratefully cool moss she laughed with the sneer exhileration of life and youth, and started out on the table top of the huge rock. But there she halted suddenly with a startled exclamation and drew instinctively back. What she saw might well have astonished her, for it was a thing she had never seen before and of which she had never heard. Finally, reassured by the silence, she slipped across the broad face of the fiat rock for a distance of twenty-five feet and paused again to listen. At the far edge lay a pair of saddlebags, such as form the only practical equipment for mountain travelers. Near them lay a tin box, littered with small and unfamilar-looking tubes of soft metal, all grotesquely twisted and stained, and beside the box was a ] strangely shaped plaque of wood ] smeared with a dozen hues. That this { plaque was a painter's sketching palette was ? thing which she could not t know, since the ways of artists had ( to do with a world as remote from ? her own as the life of the moon or the l stars. It was one of those vague mys- j teries that made up the wonderful life i of "down below." Why had these things been left here in such confu- s sion? If there was a man about who < owned them he would doubtless return ^ to claim them. She crept over, eyes s and ears alert, and slipped around to i the front of the queer tripod, with all ( her muscles poised in readiness for j flight. i A half-rapturous and utterly aston- , ished cry broke from her lips. She stared a moment, then dropped to the ] moss-covered rock, leaning back on < her brown hands and gazing intently, i "Hit's purty!" she approved, in a k low, musical murmur. "Hit's plumb ] ? dead beautiful!" < I Of course it was not a finished pic- j ture?merely a study of what lay be- ? fore her?but the hand that had j placed these brush strokes on the ] academy board was the sure, deft hand of a master of landscape, who ? had caught the splendid spirit of the thing and fixed it immutably in true i and glowing appreciation. Who he ] was; where he had gone; why his work stood there unfinished and aban- ] doned, were details which for the moment this half-savage child-woman i forgot to question. She was conscious < only of a sense or reveiauon ana awe. s Then she saw other boards, like the j one upon the easel, piled near the i paint box. These were dry, and rep- ] resented the work of other days; but i they were all pictures of her own j mountains, and in each of them, as 1 in this one, was something that made i , her heart leap. < To her own people these steep hillsides and "coves" and valleys were a i matter of course. In their stony soil ' they labored by day, and in their shadows slept when work was done. Yet s someone had discovered that they had 1 a picturesque and rugged beauty; that 1 they were not merely steep fields i where the plow was useless and the ] hoe must be used. She must tell Sam- i son?Samson, whom she held in an ! artless exaltation of hero worship; Samson, who was so "smart" that he ' thought about things beyond her un- i derstanding; Samson, who could not only read and write, but speculate on i problematical matters. B Suddenly she came to her feet with ^ a swift-darting impulse of alarm. Her i ' ear had caught a sound. She cast < i searching glances about her, but the tangle was empty of humanity. The water still murmured over the rocks undisturbed. There was no sign of I human presence, other than herself, that her eyes could discover?and yet to her ears came the sound again, and i this time more distinctly. It was the 1 sound of a man's voice, and it was moaning as if in pain. She rose and 1 searched vainly through the bushes of the hillside where the rock ran out I from the woods. She lifted her skirts and splashed her feet in the shallow i creek water, wading persistently up and down. Her shyness was forgotten. ! The groan was a groan of a human rrpntnre in distress, and she must find and succor the person from whom it came. Certain sounds are baffling as to direction. A voice from overhead or L . broken by echoing obstacles does not I r readily betray its source. Finally she i stood up and listened once more in- i tently?her attitude full of tense earnestness. "I'm shore a fool," she announced, half aloud. "I'm shore a plumb fool." Then she turned and disappeared in LL?ff6e MD5: SEVILLE BUCKo 5 FROft PHOTOGRAPHS PLAY the deep cleft between the gigantic bowlder upon which she had been sitting and another?small only by com parison. There, ten feet down, in a i narrow alley littered with ragged < stones, lay the crumpled body of a < man. It lay with the arm doubled i under it, and from a gash in the forehead trickled a thin stream of blood. Also, it was the body of such a man 1 as she had not seen before. 1 Although from the man came a low < groan mingled with his breathing, it < was not such a sound as comes from fully conscious lips, but rather that af a brain dulled into a coma. ( Freed from her fettering excess of shyness by his condition, the girl t stepped surely from foothold to foothold until she reached his side. She < stood for a moment with one hand on t :he dripping walls of rock, looking 1 Jown while her hair fell about her face. Then, dropping to her knees, 3 she shifted the doubled body into a i A Low Groan Mingled With Hla Breathing. t leaning posture straightened the * imbs, and began exploring with effl- J dent fingers for broken bones. c She had found the left arm limp e ibove the wrist, and her Angers had r liagnosed a broken bone. But uncon- a sclousness must have come from the x blow on the head, where a bruise was ilready blackening, and a gash still v trickled blood. r She lifted her skirt and tore a long * strip of cotton from her single petti- 11 roat. Then she picked her bare-footed >vay swiftly to the creek bed, where a she drenched the cloth for bathing and v bandaging the wound. When she had s lone what she could by way of Arst *" lid she sat supporting the man's shoulders and shook her head dubi- s jusly. y Finally the man's lids Auttered and f bis lips moved. Then he opened his ^ ?yes. "Hello!" said the stranger, vaguely. 1 'I seem to have?" He broke off and h nis lips smiled. It was a friendly, unlerstanding smile, and the girl, Aghtng hard the shy impulse to drop his * shoulders and Aee to the kind masking of the bushes, was in a measure reassured. v "You must hev fell offen the rock," a she enlightened. e "I think I might have fallen into 8 .vorse circumstances," replied the un renown. "I reckon you kin set up after a ittle." "Yes. of course." The man suddenly * ealized that although he was quite v :omfortable as he was he could 1 icarcely expect to remain permanently 1 n the support of her bent arm. He I ittempted to prop himself on his hurt I land and relaxed with a twinge of ex- > :reme pain. The color, which had be- * ;un to creep back into his cheeks, left :hem again, and his lips compressed T hemselves tightly to bite off an exdamation of suffering. e "Thet air left arm air busted," an- f lounced the young woman, quietly. ^ 'Ye've got ter be heedful." Had one of her own men hurt him- r self and behaved stoically it would * have been mere matter of course; but e her eyes mirrored a pleased surprise s it the stranger's good-natured nod and his quiet refusal to give expression <1 to pain. It relieved her of the neces- v jity for contempt. a "I'm afraid," apologized the painter, 'that I've been a great deal of trouble t to you." s Her lips and eyes were sober as she a replied. p "I reckon thet's all right." "And what's worse, I've got to be I more, trouble. Did you see anything of a brown mule?" I She shook her head. "He must have wandered off. May c I ask to whom I am indebted for this x first aid to the injured?" I "I don't know what ye means?" She had propped him against the * rocks and sat near by, looking into his > im*r W 1111 (iiiiiusi Uiflvuiitci uiiH aicau 1ness: her solemn-pupiled eyes were ' unblinking: and unsmiling. "Why, I mean who are you?" he t laughed. "I hain't nobody much. I jest lives * over yon." 1 "Hut," insisted the man, "surely you s have a name." < She nodded. "Hit's Sally." t "Then, Miss Sally, I want to thank ' you." Once more she nodded, and, for the 1 first time, let her eyes drop, while she 1 sat nursing her knees. Finally she * glanced up and asked with plucked- < up courage: 1 "Stranger, what mout yore name < be?" i "Lescott?George Lescott." * "How'd ye git hurt?" 1 He shook his head. "I was painting?up there," he said; r "and I guess I got too absorbed in the T work. I stepped backward to look at the canvas and forgot where the edg-? was. I stepped too far." ** The man rose to his feet, but he tottered and reeled against the wall of ragged stone. The blow on his head had left him faint and dizzy. He sat N down again. "I'm afraid," ho ruefully admitted, ^ "that I'm not quite ready for discharge from your hospital." "You jest set where yer at." The girl rose and pointed up the mountainside. "I'll light out across the hill and fotch Samson an' his mule." "Who and where is Samson?" he inquired. He realized that the bottom of the valley would shortly thick- a ?n into darkness, and that the way j' aut, unguided, would become impos- b sible. "It sounds like the name of a P strong man." |J "I means Samson South," she en- 0 ightened, as though further descrip- a don of one so celebrated would be reiundant. "He's over thar 'bout threeluarters." "Three-quarters of a mile?" She nodded. What else could threejuarters mean? p "How long will it take you?" he K isked. h She deliberated. "Samson's hoein' K :orn in the fur hill field. He'll hev er cotch his mule. Hit mout tek a d lalf-hour." h; "You can't do it in a half-hour, can ci rou?" H "I'll Jest take my foot in my hand, si in' light out" She turned, and with i nod was gone. At last she came to a point where i clearing rose on the mountainside ibove her. The forest blanket was Gripped off to make way for a fencedn and crazily tilted field of young e) :orn. High up and beyond, close to c] he bald shoulders of sandstone which f{ hrew themselves against the sky, was p he figure of a man. As the girl halted w LI ine rooi 01 me neia, ai ia.si, punung (j rom her exertions, he was sitting on n he rail fence, looking absently down A >n the outstretched panorama below ^ ?im. i8 Samson South < was not, strictly \s ipeaking, a man. His age was perlaps twenty. He sat loose-Jointed and jj ndolent on the top rail of the fence, p lis hands hanging over his knees, his l loe forgotten. Near by, propped vj igainst the rails, rested a repeating iB ifle, though the people would have fe old you that the truce in the "South- u lollman war" had been unbroken for ts wo years, and that no clansman need a] n these halcyon days go armed afield, j] CHAPTER II. C Sally clambered lightly over the G ence and started on the last stage of p ler journey, the climb across the 111 'oung corn rows. It was a field stood a' in end, and the hoed ground was un- ^ iven; but with no seeming of weari- ? less her red dress flashed steadfastly cross the green spears, and her voice pi vas raised to shout: "Hello Samson!" tx The young man looked up and tc Laved a languid greeting. He did not ^ emove his hat or descend from his ^ lace of rest, and Sally, who expected ^ 10 such attention, came smilingly on. iamson was her hero. Slow of utter- pl nee and diffident with the stranger, ai rords now came fast and fluently as he told her story of the man who lay lurt at the foot of the rock. r "Hit hain't long now tell sundown," G he urered. "Hurrv. Samson, an' git r ore mule. I've done give him my h( romlse to fotch ye right straight ack." ai Samson took off his hat, and tossed he heavy lock upward from his forelead. His brow wrinkled with doubts. ^ "What sort of lookin' feller is he?" While Sally sketched a description, he young man's doubts grew graver. w "This hain't no time ter be takin' IC n folks what we hain't acquainted m kith," he objected. In the mountains ? fr ny time is the time to take In Strangrs unless there are secrets to be ^ uarded from outside eyes. "Why hain't it?" demanded the girl. se cc He's hurt. We kain't leave him layn' thar, kin we?" Suddenly her eyes caught sight of he rifle leaning near by, and straightray they filled with apprehension. ^ ler militant love would have turned CC o hate for Samson, should he have roved recreant to the mission of re- ^ risal in which he was biding his time, f et the coming of the day when the ruce must end haunted her thoughts. cf She came close, and her voice sank sa mh her sinking heart. dj "What air hit?" she tensely demandid. "What air hit, Samson? What er have ye fotched yer gun ter the ield?" 02 The boy laughed. "Oh. hit ain't iothin' partic'ler," he reassured. "Hit fe lain't nothin' fer a gal ter fret herself t0 rbout, only I kinder suspicions ^ trangers jest now." "Air the truce busted?" She put the q luestion in a tense, decp-breathed ()1 rhisper, and the boy replied casually, a, .imosi inuiiieieuwy. {}. "N'o, Sally, hit hain't jest ter say Cl >U?tcd, but 'pears like hit's right 0j mart cracked. I reckon, though," he r dded in half-disgust, "nothin' won't ome of hit." j Somewhat reassured, she bethought cj terself again of her mission. a) "This here furriner hain't got no v< mrrn in him, Samson." she pleaded. He 'pears ter be more like a gal than m i man. He's real puny. He's got vhite skin and a bow of ribbon on lis neck?an' he paints pictures." The boy's face had been hardening vith contempt as the description ad'anced, but at the last words a glow ante to the eyes, and he demanded ilmost breathlessly: "Paints pictures? How do ye know hat?" "1 seen 'em. He was paintin' one vhen he fell offen the rock and busted re lis arm. It's shore es beautiful es?" C she broke off, then added with a sudlen peal of laughter?"es er picture." ei The younp man slipped down from jj, he fence, and reached for the rifle. rhe hoe he left where it stood. . "I'll git the nag," he announced jn irielly, and swung off without further larley toward the curling spiral of imoke that marked a cabin a quarter l( ri ?f a mile below. Ten minutes later lis bare feet swung against the ribs if a gray mule and his rifle lay balmeed across the unsaddled withers. a' 'ally sat mountain fashion behind ^ lini, facing straight to the side. (To Be Continued.) L; OOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS s Traced Id Early Flies of The Yorkvllle Enquirer EWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY (ringing Up Reco.ds of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first Installment of the notes ppearing under this heading was ublished In our Issue of November 14. 913. The notes are being prepared y the editor as time and opportunity ermlt. Their purpose Is to bring ito review the events of the past for ie nleasure and satisfaction of the lder people and for the entertainment nd Instruction of the present generaIon. 106TH INSTALLMENT (Thursday Morning, Jan. 6, 1862.) The vigilence committee of this lace, a few days since, arrested E. E. IcCaffrey, (a northern man) who was eretofore In the employ of Mr. E. M. lirkpatrick, Jeweler and silversmith. It appears from what we could un* erstand, McCaffrey has been in the abit of using language which was not ompatable with southern interests, te was accordingly lodged in Jail for ife keeping. Editorial Correspondence. From the 12th Regiment. 2amp Pemberton," near Pocotaligo, S. C.. Dec. 29, 1861. Dear Enquirer:?Many of your readrs have doubtless come to the conluslon that my letters are "few and ir between." The want of matter roper to be published is the excuse e offer for our apparent desertion of uty. Rumors abound in our camp early every day, stating enough to itisfy the most inveterate newsmongr, but on investigation, the mountain i generally found to have been In i.bor, and the product a mouse. Our regiment left Pocotaligo, on the 1th, instant, at 8.30 o'clock p. m., ursuant to an order from General ee, who had received dispatches adIsing him that the Yankees were incling in rorce near rori noym :rry. We left our encampment with ght baggage, accompanied by a deichment of the North Carolina flying rtillery, under command of Lieut. [cElhaney, and proceeded to Garder's Corner, a distance of seven miles, ol. Donovant after conferring with ol. Jones, who was stationed at thai lace, faced his regiment about and larched it back about two miles bove Poctaligo, and bivouaced mong the the bushes for the night, ur company, accompanied by the arUery, was, however, detailed for Icket duty, and ordered to a position vo miles distant, on a road leading i Pages' Point. On the appearance of lylight, it was ascertained that the ankees had landed, or attempted to y so. On Monday morning the company on icket duty returned to the regiment, id all the camp equippage was brought iwn from Pocotaligo. On Tuesly the "long roll" was beaten, the giment formed and marched to ardner's Corner?the report having ached us of another landing. This, jwever, turned out to be story No. vo. On Thursday, another alarm, lother march and wolf story No. iree. Everything remained quiet until rednesday morning, the 18th, when le firing of artillery was heard in ie direction of Port Royal Ferry. All ere on the qui vive for the "long ill," and preparations were made for oving on a moment's warning, bout sundown a courier arrived om the ferry, stating that the North arolina artillery had fired on one of ie enemy's gunboats, disabling her riously?that she was aground?and >uld easily be captured. The comand was immediately put in moon and marched to whithin two iles of the ferry, where we were inrmed that the boat had fired into leir flats loaded with men, who had ime to her assistance?sunk one it, and done much other damage to ie Yankees. There being nothing for i to do, we "marched down the hill." There are matters about which we >uld write, calculated to interest and Ltisfy your readers, but prudence dates silence. In regard to our irces, suffice it to say that a sufficilt number of men can be concentrati at any point where our enemies in harm us, to drive them back to le cover of their guns. We have no ar that they will accomplish much wards subjugation in South Carona. Since my last letter, the "Palmer uards" have received many articles ' comfort from good friends at home, id in their behalf we hereby tender tanks. To Col. A. B. Springs for a mtribution of $25.00; to the ladies ' Yorkville, Bethel and Bethesda elirf societies for clothing, blankets, loes, etc.; to Bev. E. E. Boyce, Maj. B. Lowry and Wm. McGee for othing; to Mrs. Samuel Blair; they e under obligations for similar fairs. The postoffice address of the regient is Pocotaligo, S. C. L. M. G. (To be Continued.) HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE. ews Items from All Sections of South Carolina. Dr. W. W. Wolfe was elected mayor ' St. Matthews last week. Rev. A. T. Cornwell has resigned the ^ctorship of St. Paul's church, in harleston. A. s. saney, Jr., was on Friday, reected secretary of the South Corona historical association. Fire at Furman University, Greenlie. last week, did damage amountig to less than 1100. Sheriff John W. Davis of Oconee >unty, was seriously injured in a m-away accident, last Friday. Senator Verner has introduced a ill in the state senate which would low motion pictures to be shown in le public schools of the state. A warehouse belonging to R. B. aney of Oheraw, was destroyed by fire last week. About 85 baty?s of cot- I ton were destroyed. * The boys' dormitory of the Spartan academy at Landrum, was badly damaged by fire last Wednesday night. The origin of the lire is unknown. A new flour mill is to be built in Spartanburg at an early dat?, a com- ( pany with a capital of $10,000, having been orgnized for that purpose. The first official act of Governor Manning last week, was to sign the commission of a Beaufort county officer. Charlie Jewell, a 11-year-old boy, I waa run nuor hu a n antnmnhll? and I seriously injured near the Poe mill in * Greenville, last week. J. E. Holmes, coroner of Edgefield s county, died last Friday, following a ^ long Illness with Bright's disease. He was about 70 years of age. iDr. R. M. Grim of the United States c iblic health service has arrived in t artanburg to take charge of the 0 pellagra hospital there. f\ Mrs. Douglas Jenkins, wife of the a American counsel at Riga, Russia, n and a native of Charleston, died in p Russia last week, following an opera- h tlon. b The annual meeting of the South 0 Carolina Bar association was held in v Columbia, last Thursday. Hon. Chas. ,! A. Woods of Marlon, was the prlncl- w pal speaker of the occasion. a Rev. C. A. Jones has resigned the pastorate of the Thomas Memorial ? Baptist church of Bennettsville, to become educational secretary of the South Carolina Baptist convention. The dead body of Joseph Sullivan, n a former soldier in the United States a army, was found in his home on Sul- w livan's island, last week, by neighbors who were attracted to the house by the ^ cries of his little daughter. a The town of Chesterfield was in b darkness several days last week on h account of the high water in Thomp- w son's creek, which carried away about forty feet of the dam of the Chester- d field Light and Power Co. A Representative Joseph A. McCullough of Greenville, has Introduced a bill in the house providing for an amendment to the constitution for equal suffrage. There is small possi- S bility of the measure's passing. ^ Sheriff Rector of Greenville county, 9 has located Ellis C. Blackstone, who is p wanted in Greenville on a charge of n y desertion of his family, in New Hampshire, and the man will be returned to e South Carolina in a few days. A committee of Confederate veterans ^ ?one from each congressional district j( in the state, which met in Columbia t] last week, adopted resolutions asking the legislature to pension every Con- w feierate veteran and every widow of e a veteran in the state. a A negro preacher named Davis, pas- G tor of the Timmonsville circuit, was q d*qwned in Lynche's river near Tim- tl monsville, Friday afternoon. The ti negro drove into a barbed wire fence f< on the river bank and was drowned b before he could be rescued. o A handsome open face watch, stolen from the cruiser Olympia at the ? Charleston navy yard last week, has been recovered bv the Charleston do- b lice, who found it in a pawnshop. The c watch is the property of an officer on a the vessel, and is valued at $800. The children of Arthur Blackman of Society Hill, were horribly burned ^ last week, when a kettle of boiling water was poured over them. The y children were playing on the floor ^ when the kettle on the stove in some y manner was overturned. Portland Ned, the famous safe- tj cracker who, after his pardon by j, Governor Blease, escaped from Federal C( officers, was last week convicted of robbing two postofflces in North Caro- n Una and was sentenced to serve seven ^ years in the Federal penitentiary in C( Atlanta. it Representative Bowles of Green- el wood county, has Introduced a bill in the legislature which asks for four a rural policemen to serve in that coun- si ty. The need for additional policemen a in Greenwood is urged because of the w wave of crime which has been pre- b vailing in that community. ti Dr. B. B. Steedly, chief surgeon of a; the Steedly hospital of Spartanburg, Cl has taken the position of assistant ^ surgeon on the medical staff of the f( state Baptist hospital in Columbia. C( Former Governor Blease has been a appointed a notary public by Governor Manning. t( Homer Dabb has been arrested in s< Greenville county, charged with burning the barn of C. P. Barnett of that county. Barnett found an illicit dis- A tillery, the property of Dabb, on his tc place, and demanded that the owner w remove the same at once. Dabb be- ^ came angered and shortly afterward burned Barnett's barn. g: Herbert Clayter, Jr., 17-year-old son Q] of a Richland county physician, was shot and instantly killed near Hopkins, Friday. The young man in com- n pany with several friends, had been o] hunting and attempted to unload his t gun while crossing the railway track. Finding the weapon stiff, he struck ^ the arm upon the rail to open the j breech when it was discharged, Clay- ( ter dying in a few minutes. J. F. Crawford, a traveling salesman bi of Columbia, was seriously injured g while on a railway train near Spar- g] tanburg, last Thursday, when he was c] struck by a cuspidor hurled by D. M. 01 Reaves, a traveling man of Spartan- tl burg. Reaves intended hitting a news- t? butcher at whom he had become sj angered. Crawford got in the way st with the above named result. Reaves fr was placed under bond in the sum of tj $200. b: re A Sad Mistake.?Editors have their bi troubles. One of these men who pre- ui sides over the destinies of a western a newspaper was mourning the loss of ri two subscribers. One wrote asking di how to raise twins successfully while m the other wanted to know how he gi might rid his orchard of grasshoppers. The answers were forwarded by mail, m but the editor put them in wrong en- re velopes. so that the man with the a twins received the answer: "Cover lu them carefully with straw and set fire to it, and then the little pests, after 01 jumping in the flames for a few min- si utes, will be speedily settled." And the st man with the grasshopper was told to ol "give castor oil and ruh their gums Js with a bone." ol ITTACKING THE WAREHOUSE: , n Md Kill Promising System In tbe " Bornlng. ;OLUMBIA INTERESTS MAKE ASSAULT a tf Jnable to Advance Argument of Facte, 111 Newspaper Organ Makes Resorts to Effort to Discredit the Warehouse h' Commissioner and Create Prejudice w Generally. w Editorial. M Columbia Record, Friday, January 22. t "There's Nothing In It." ej rhen he will do so is not specified. te He does inform the body that "we aj( ave twenty-eight warehouses, with n aggregate capacity of 45,000 bales," W) ut as to whether the storage capacity gT as been utilized and to what extent ae re are not told. th But these are apparently minor and eg isconsidered details in Commissioner sa IcLaurin's scheme of things. m; He dreams of bigger things. pr He is fascinated with his calcula- is Ions of the potentialities that inhere i the simple title of "sales agent" for fe louth Carolina of her cotton crops. fa 'hlnk of it! The factor for an entire |8 tate?for one and a half million peo- W( le! The proposer and disposer of one f0 lillion and a half bales of cotton each th ear. It is a dream worthy of the dream- ga r. ha Aladdin's wonderful lamp never su lsclosed such heaps of hoarded yel- ha >w gold, rubbed he it ever so Indus- be riously. of He would build compresses; he f0 rould do away with middlemen of is] very description; he would float m hips; he would deal directly with tr lermany where 25 cents is being to uoted for cotton and "bring home ce he bacon"?that is to say, some ?< rifling hundreds of thousands profits th 3r each cargo, being the difference re etween 8 cents and 25 cents on the itj ther side. th Harken to our South Carolina Col- po nel Mulberry Sellers: ot "If the state had one plant, as a be- in Inning, located in Columbia, with a ompress, just at this time, the sale of fei single cargo of cotton in Europe at an 5 cents a pound, which is being paid qU here, would have a tremendous ef- 8p Mit in advancing the price of cot- ot jn." co He gives an illustration of a Sa- be annah pool that "floated bonds for a th alf million dollars to purchase several co essels, in which cargoes of cotton EH 'ere shipped to Germany" and "sold ca lere, those gentlemen stated to my mi lformant, at a net profit of thirteen to ents a pound. hii "If any argument were needed, this th; lere statement should be enough, th [ere is one man producing a bale of th otton at a loss of $20; here is another tic taking $70 clear for fiinding a mark- La W- W The trifling circumstance of floating lal half million dollars' bonds to buy mi hips?the taking the risk of finding to market by navigating seas sewed tai rith floating mines and searched by ca elligerent war ships looking for con- sci aband and all the chances by flood foi nd field of the "Strumpet Fortune," tei uts no figure in the calculations of wt iulberry Sellers McLaurin. The dif- ac irence between 8 and 20 or 25 cent pe otton safely landed in Germany is th; 11 "net profit." ed D. W. Kemper of the Galveston cot>n exchange, was quoted in an As- W iciated Press dispatch printed in this st: ewspaper yesterday, as saying that ga It costs $12.50 per bale to secure an is merican vessel to carry a bale of cot- tn >n from Galveston to Rotterdam, Ca hich is but two days' journey from qu iverpool." to "What excuse has a government for ne dstence which cannot correct such sit ross inequalities in the distribution t wealth," exclaims Mr. McLaurin, Ca nd our Mulberry Sellers would at a thi lere wave of the wand of his imagi- all ation sweep out of our path all the an bstacles and difficulties that lie be- go veen 8 cents cotton in South Carolina na nd 25 cents cotton in Germany, which co ave engaged and taxed the powers of th< igic of the virile and acute mentality wa f a Woodrow Wilson?which have thi iven rise to an international issue or etween Great Britain and the United be tates that has not had its equal in re] ravity since the Eagle and the Lion ed lawed and clashed with each other ] ne hundred and more years ago over op le pernicious interference of the lat- en >r with our sailors and merchant ly lips on the high seas, even now th< iraining to the breaking point the th< ientfly, blood relationship and identi- mi r of interests of the two powers to tal ridge over amicably?which have th< tused the Democratic president to me ring in the most extraordinary measre providing for the purchase of to government-owned merchant ma- air ne and precipitated an apparently po rawn battle between the two great an ational parties'in the halls of conress. _ What excuse, indeed, has a govern- gls lent for existence when a AlcLaurin in obviate all these difficulties with breath from his wonder-compelling ,u. ings? Fe But, alas, just as like as not, when jr new worker of Arabian wonders lould have transported his fleecy sei aple to Germanic shores by means ha ' magic carpets, or, like another ison, having overcome all the crops j^1 ' armed men and other obstacles, he pja We have before us the report of State Warehouse Commissioner John m Mcl^aurin to the general assembly. The report is a pamphlet of some leven pnges of printed matter, prin ipally devoted to a disquestlon on te he handling, financing and exporting fr if cotton, and setting forth the muni[cent results the commissioner could .chieve if he were granted all the tioney and power necessary for the lurpose at the hands of the legislature, ut nowhere Is there any reference pr ut In the most general terms to the perations of the warehouse system irlth which he is charged and which it * presumed the general assembly tould particularly desire to know ht bout in this connection. ? wj The commissioner says he will file supplemental report in which he ^ will include," "as directed by the act j? list of the warehouses, locations, st ames of managers, amount of cotton gt n storage and such other details as lay be necessary for your (the gener- Wj 1 assembly's) full information," but hould have gained hia destination dth his Golden Fleece?as like as ot, the shrewd Teutonic trading mind ould rate cotton that could be obtalnd so easily as not In the 25-cent class f cotton that could not be had in sufcient amount to supply the demand t all. . "If we can find an outlet abroad," le South Carolina cotton producer lay revel in riches, is the keynote ol r. McLaurin's divinations?but what as all this to do with the matter of arehousing the South Carolina crop hich the legislature entrusted to Mr. cLaurin at his own instance largely? About all Commissioner McLaurin ills us on this score is that the "preslt warehouse act is but a small bennlng in so great a work." He comes to the new legislature iking new powers and grants of oney, but like the man entrusted ith the one talent of whom the Bible lis us, we are constrained to think om his failure to report on it that he ust have gone and burled his talent ?cause it was so small. But, what then? Can the lord of the vineyard make m master over big things who has -oved faithless in small things? Some weeks ago we clipped from he Yorkville Enquirer, whose editor us been the friend and familiar of jmmissloner McLaurin in the ware>use and other matters, an article hich in part follows: "While in Columbia, Wednesday, the litor of The Enquirer called on Hon. >hn L. McLaurin, at his office in the ate warehouse down on Gervais reet near the river, and found him ixd at work on problems connected Ith the financing of cotton. "Asked about the details of the sysm, and as to how he was getting ong generally, Mr. McLaurin said ( at he was still taking over other arehouses, and that the system was owing, but unless the general asmbly should see proper to enlarge e powers of the commissioner, pecially as to the matter of making les and negotiating loans, the law ay as well be repealed so fat as any esent or future value to the tarmers concerned." If Commissioner McLaurin knows or els that he has made a failure in so r as the present warehouse system 1 concerned, it seems to us that it ould be the frank and proper course 1 r him to inform the legislature of at fact. i We have had an open mind with re- < xd to this warehouse experiment and ive desired to see it made a practical < ccess. We believe Mr. McLaurin in < Lve been sincere in thinking he could i neflt the state and farmers by means it, but we have not had much hope r its practical success since the leglature and Mr. McLaurin made the ( istake, as we think, the first in enusting the execution of the scheme , Mr. McLaurin, and the last in ac- ( pting and undertaking the trust. >me mm have a mission to talk and eorize and some have the talent for duclng theory to working practical/. Both of these types are useful in elr way, no doubt, but it is as imssible to make them fit in each tier's place as to put a square peg a round hole. Mr. McLaurin is on record as con- 1 asing that he is easily "stringed" 1 id gulled in business matters. He 1 lotes and swallows the theories and eculations of Theodore Price and ( hers on the cotton problem (to the ; nfusion of his own argument, if it ( > analyzed) as glibly in his report to e general assembly as he ever dis- ] ursed on the subject of "Commercial ] imocracy," at a former period in his i reer when some bunco artist "com- 1 srciallzed" him, as we have been led 1 believe from his own confession of < s jejune career. But we suggest 1 at all this has nothing to do with < e practical working and details? e success or non-success of the par- , :ular warehouse system that Mr. Mc- , Lurin was commissioned to conduct, e do not apprehend that the legls:ure constituted Mr. McLaurin comssioner to travel about the country, hobnob with presidents and potentes, in some sort of ambassadorial paclty; to devise international hemes of trade and negotiate plans r revolutionizing the established sysm of commercial business. If it did } do not wonder that he declined to cept any salary beyond "actual exnses'' out of the picayune 115,000 at the general assembly appropriatfor his experiment. How many junkets, think you, to ashlngton and New York in the rle that befits Mr. McLaurin's elent proportions and his ideas of what "the thing" for an ambassador of ide for the ancient and historic .rolina commonwealth would be reired to reduce that $15,000 pittance the condition of a last year's bird st after it had passed through a >ge of wintry winds? We do not believe the state of South .rolina is either in the humor or in e circumstances at this time especiy to enter upon a new, extensive d untried experiment in paternal vernment. It cannot by itself domite and control the currents of the tton trade. If the effort to better e conditions of the farmers by the ixehouse system as authorized by e last general assembly has proved is destined to prove a ranure, we t lieve the warehouse act should be i pealed and the experiment abandon- t r It would clearly be Idle, in our t tnion, at this time for the state to I ter upon a scheme which confessedentalls the creation of compresses, ^ ? building or purchase of ships s ? elimination of all the system of ( ddlemen and established instrumen- g ities of business and the supplying g 3 places of these with new instrumtalitles. 8 rhe attempt would be foredoomed failure, if South Carolina had not eady had a surfeit of experience t litical exploitation of her material j d financial resources. - Governor Manning on Saturday ( ;ned an order approved by Adjutant r neral Moore, calling for an Imme- c ite Inspection of the National Guard, ^ ? inspection to begin at Edgefield on fc b. 8. r t > -Judiciary committees of both the n late and house of representatives o ve returned favorable reports upon f i anti-tipplng bill which provides a c nalty for giving tips to employes in t tels, restaurants and other public s rtou n GENERAL NEW8 N0TE8. Items of Interest Gathered From All Around the World. It la estimated in London that England will have fully 1,000,000 fighting men in France by the first of March. There are more than 10,000 earthquake victims being cared tor in the regular and temporary hospitals of Rome, Italy. Eight iron furnaces of the Thomson Steel Works at Braddock, Pa., were put in operation last week, giving employment to 1,000 men. The Grafton state bank at Grafton, W. Va., was closed last week following a run, caused, it is said, by the failure of a big bank at Unlontown, Pa. The rail mill of the Illinois Steel company at uary, ina., is to resume operations February 8, adding 1,500 men to the force of 3,000 now employed by the company. Major Devile, of the French army medical service, has received not less than 97 wounds since the war began. Most of his wounds have been slight, but several have boen quite serious. After a strike lasting Ave months, in which a demand for an increase of wages was the issue, 1,600 glove cutters of Greenville and Johnston, N. Y., have returned to work. The demands were not granted. A dispatch from Athens, Greece, says: "The decision of Roumanla to enter the arena as a belligerent Is confirmed from various sources. All agree that the time is to be the first week in February." During the year 1914, there were 190 fatal grade crossing accidents in New York state. In 1913, the total of such deaths were 134. Automobiles on grade crossings were responsible for 35 deaths last year. The steamship Maryland of the Baltl Atlantic LUI1UIC, V/Xicoapc?uvc auu /iviaunv iwiway, was destroyed by Are In Chesapeake bay, Friday. Twelve of the 108 passengers and crew are unaccounted for. A story sent out from Paris is to the effect that the ministers of finance of England, France and Russia, at a recent Joint meeting In Paris, arranged to float a war loan of (3,500,000,000, to bear 3} per cent Interest A correspondent writing from Rome, Bays: "It is again Insistently rumored that Emperor Francis Joseph, while fully realizing the danger of the cessation of the sovereignty of Hungary at the present time, has decided to abdicate." The Efficiency Board of the National Bakers' association, in Chicago, last week, recommended that the bankers of the country make loaves to weigh 26 ounces to sell at 10 cents, putting the increased price on the higher cost of wheat. Two million dollars will be distributed among farmers in various states, els compensation for the destruction of their cattle and property in the crusade against the foot and mouth disease, if the promisee of congressional leaders are carried through. iweniy-iwo ui wie gpcuiu uoyuij sheriffs charged with firing on striking employes of tho American Agrlcultuial Chemical company at Roosevelt, N. J? last Wednesday, In which one man was killed, are being held for trial under bail bonds of $2,000 each. As the result of the failure of the First National Bank at Unlontown, Pa., last week, due to failure to observe the banking laws, and the flrst 3lg failure under the reserve banking laws, the Federal Reserve board is considering the idea of having the ira:lonal banks submit weekly statements jf condition. Peter S. Tully, known by his comrades as "Slice Bar," of Vallejo, Ca.. was the first of the veteran sailors of :he battleship Oregon on her dash iround South America in 1898, to take advantage of the voyage-enlistment it the Spanish war crew of the Orejon, for the ceremonies incident to the official opening of the Panama canal. Judge Worschauser at White Plains, N. Y., last week, following the acjulttal of a defendant charged with shooting Chas. H. Wilson, before discharging the Jury, said to that body: 'I cannot agree with your verdict, but I must accept it. There is but one conclusion in my mind, and that is that this is a clear case of blackmail. The verdict indicates a miscarriage of lustice." The military committee of the lower louse of congress, has favorably reported the McKellar bill, providing for the establishment in each state of a nilitary training school, which must lave at least 300 students, who will -eceive a thorough academic education ind suih military Instruction from irmy officers, as will fit them for the iuties of reserve or volunteer officers n time of war. Dr. E. Lester Jones, public commlslioner of fisheries, in a report to Presdent Wilson, after an investigation of charges of wholesale and continual violations of liquor laws in regulations n Alaska, says: "Wherever the white nan has settled the saloon prevails md that has had more to do with the uination of the Indian and the Aleut han all other causes. I am advised by -eliable authority that up to this year here had not been a single conviction >y a Jury in Alaska." Jos. J. Ettor, leader of Industrial SVorker8 of the World, is in Jail at St. Clairsville, O., charged with trealon. Ettor was scheduled to make an tddress at Bellaire when arrested, his innounced subject being: "Against var: war for the classes and war tgainst all capitalists of the world." Mrs. Frances Munds of Yavapai :ounty, is the only woman member of he Arizona senate, now in session at ^hnpniv ? The following Is the substance of )rder No. 4, issued by Governor Manilng last Fridav as commander-lnhief of the militia: The purported irder of the 11th day of January, 1915, mown as general order No. 2, is here>y declared void and of no effect. All ights, duties, privileges and obligaions. whether civil or military, of the ?ational Guard and of the volunteer nilitia, in whole or in part, and of the fflcers and men thereof, are not afected by said illegal order, but have ontinued and do now continue as W. mi rvVt nnM UnA la uuuftii naiu in uci nau ucvri uccii i? ued. Thia order is to take effect imnediately.