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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ? I88UEP 8KMI'W?EgLT. L. M. okist'S sons. PnbU.h.r.,} % 4amiI8 ^or th< promotion o)f fh< political, ?ociat, $gri<nltni[at and Commercial Jnteresta of <h< ptogl*. ( ""Vw^VLpv!'" * ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 9,1915. ZSTO. 2Q. CUMBE * /& CHARLES WITH ILLUSTRATION OF SCENES IN THE CHAPTER X. Early that year, the touch of au^ tumn came to the air. Often, returning at sundown from the afternoon life class, Samson felt the lure of its melancholy sweetness, and paused on one of the Washington Square benches, with many vague things stirring in his mind. He felt with a stronger throb the surety of young, but quickening, abilities within himself. Partly, it was the charm of Indian summer, partly a sense of growing with the days, but also, though he had not as yet realized that, it was the new friendship into which Ad rlenne had admitted him, and the new fc experience of frank camarderie with f a woman not as a member of an inferior sex, but as an equal companion of brain and soul. He had seen her often, and usually alone, be| cause he shunned meetings with strangers. Until his education had adl vanced further, he wished to avoid social embarrassments. He knew that she liked him, and realized that it was because he was a new and virile type, and for that reason a diversion? a sort of human novelty. She liked him, too, because it was rare for a man to offer her friendship without making love, and she was certain he would not make love. He liked her for the same reasons that every one else did?because she was herself. Of late, too, he had met a number of men at Lescott's club. He was modestly surprised to And that, though his attitude on these occasions was always that of one sitting in the background, the men seemed to like him, and, when they said, "See you again," at parting, it was with the convincing manner of real friendliness. ^ One wonderful afternoon in October, when the distances were mlschung, and the skies very clear, Sa;nson sat across the table from Adrienne Lescott at a road house on the Sound. The sun had set through great cloud battalions massed against the west, and the horizen was fading into darkness through a haze like ash or roses. She had picked him up on the Avenue, and taken him into her car for a short spin, but the afternoon had beguiled them, luring them on a little farther, and still a little further. When they were a score of miles from Manhattan, the car had suddenly broken down. It would, the chauffeur" told them, be the matter of an hour to effect repairs, so the girl, explaining to the boy that this event gave the afTair the aspect of adventure, turned and led the way, on foot, to the nearest road house. "We will telephone that we shall be late, and then have dinner," she laughed. "And for me to have dinner with you alone, unchaperoned at a country inn, is by New York standards delightfully unconventional. It borders on wickedness." Then since their attitude toward each other was so . friendly and innocent, they both | laughed. They had dined under the trees of an old manor house, built a century ago, and now converted into an inn. and they had enjoyed them^ selves because it seemed to them pleasingly paradoxical that they SI should find in a place seemingly so " shabby genteel a cuisine and service of which excellence. Neither of them had ever been there before, and neither of them knew that the reputation of this establishment was in its own way wide?and unsavory. The repairs did not go as smoothly as the chauffeur had expected, and, when he had finished, he was hungry. So, eleven o'clock found them still chatting at their table on the lighted lawn. After awhile, they fell silent, and Adrienne noticed thai her companion's face had become deeply, almost painfully set, and that his gaze was tensely focused on herself. "What is it, Mr. South?" she de* manded. The young man began to speak, in a steady, self-accusing voice. "I was sitting here, looking at you," he said bluntly. "I was thinking how fine you are in every way; how there is as much difference in the texture of men and women as there is in the texture of clothes. From that "I Wa? Thinking of My People." nu omobile cap you wear to your slippers and stockings, you are clad in silk. From your brain to the tone of your voice, you are woven of human silk. I've learned lately that silk isn't weak, but strong. They make the best balloons of it." He paused and laughed, but his face again became sober. "I was thinking, too. of your mother. She must be sixty, but she's a young woman. Her face is smooth and unwrinkled, and her heart is still t in bloom. At the same age, George won't be much older than he is now." The compliment was so obliviously not intended as compliment at all that the girl flushed with pleasure. "Then," went on Samson, his face slowly drawing with pain. "I was thinking of my own people. My mother who was about forty when she LWtfie; RLANDS NEVILLE BUCKo IS FROtt PHOTOGRAPHS PIAT father was forty-three. He was an old man. I was thinking how they withdled. She was an old woman. My ered under their drudgery?and of the monstrous injustice of it all." Adrienne Lescott nodded. Her eyes , were sweetly sympathetic. 1 it's the hardship of the conditi one," she said, softly. "These conditions will change." A man had come out Into th veranda from the inside, and was ap- j proaching the table. He was Immaculately groomed, and came forward with the deference of approaching a ( throne, yet as one accustomed to ap- t proaching thrones. His smile was that ? of pleasing supprise. The 'mountaineer recognized Par- i blsh, and, with a quick hardening ! of the face, he recalled their last meeting. If Farbish should presume to renew the acquaintanceship under j these circumstances, Samson meant i to rise from his chair, and strike him in the face. George Lescott's sister t could not be subjected to such meet- * ings. Yet, it was a tribute to his ad- 1 vancement in good manners that he c dreaded making a scene in her pres- ] ence, and, as a warning, he met Far- 1 bish's pleasant smile with a look of 1 blank and studied lack or recognition. The circumstances out of which Far- t bish might weave unpleasant gossip 1 did not occur to Samson. Thet they t were together late in the evening, unchaperoned, at a road house whose t reputation was socially dubiuos, was { a thing he did not realize. But Far- i bish waa keenly alive to the possibilities of the situation. He chose to j construe the Kentuckian's blank ex- ( pression as annoyance at being dis- s covered, a sentiment he could readily understand. Adrlenne Lescott, follow- J ing her companions eyes, looked up, < and to the boy's astonishment nodded ? to the newcomer, and called him by t name. "Mr. Farbish," she laughed, with mock confession and total innocence ( of the fact that here words might have 1 meaning, uun u ien un uo. "I never tell things, my dear lady," said the newcomer. "I have dwelt too long In conservatories to toss pebbles. I'm afraid. Mr. South, you have forgotten me. I'm Farblsh, and I had the pleasure of meeting you"? he paused a moment, then with a pointed glance added?"at the Manhatten club, was it not?" "It was not," said Samson, promptly. Farbish looked his surprise, but was resolved to see no offense, and, after a few moments of affable and, it must be acknowledged, witty conversation, withdrew to his own table. "Where did you meet that man?" demanded Samson, fiercely, when he and the girl were alone again. "Oh, at any number of dinners and dances. His sort is tolerated for some reason." She paused, then, looking very directly at the Kentucklan, inquired, "And where did you meet him?" "Didn't you hear him say the Manhattan club?" "Yes, and I knew that he was lying." "Yes, he was!" Samson spoke, contemptuously. "Never mind where it was. It was a place I got out of when I found out who were there." The chauffer came to announce that the car was ready, and they went out. Farbish watched them with a smile that had a trace of the sardonic. The career of Farbish had been an interesting one in its own peculiar and unadmirable fashion. With no advantages of upbringing, he had nevertheless so cultivated the niceties of sacoil usage that his one flaw was a too great perfection. He was letterperfect where one to the manor born might have slurred some detail. He was witty, handsome in his saturnine way, and had powerful friends in the world of fashion and finance. That he rendered services to his plutocratic patrons, other than the repartee of his dinner talk, was a thing vaguely hinted at in club gossip, and that these services were not to his credit had more than once been con- i jectured. < When Horton had begun his cru- : sade against various abuses, he had i cast a suspicious eye on all matters through which he could trace the trail i of William Farbish, and now, when Farbish saw Horton, he eyed him with 1 an enigmatical expression, half-quiz- j zical and half-malevolent. < After Adrienne and Samson had dis- 1 appeared, he rejoined his companion, ' a stout, middle-aged gentleman of j florid complexion, whose cheviot cut- i : away and reposeful waistcoast covered a liberal embonpoint. Farbish took his cigar from his lips, and studied its ascending smoke through lids halfclosed and thoughtful. "Singular," he mused: "very singular!" "What's singular?" impatiently de- < manded his companion. "Finish, or don't start." "That mountaineer came up here as George Lescott's protege," went on Farbish. reflectively. "He came fresh from the feud betl, and landed promptly in the police court. Now, in less than a year, he's pairing off with Adrienne Lescott?who, every one supposed, meant to marry Wilfred Horton. This little party tonight is, to put it quite mildly, a bit unconventional." The stout gentleman said nothing, and the other questioned, musingly: "By the way, Bradburn, has the Ivenmore Shooting club requested Wilfred Horton's resignation yet?" "Not yet. We are going to. He's not congenial, since his hand is raised against every man who owns more than two dollars." The speaker owned several million times that sum. This meeting at an out-of-the-way place had been arranged for the purpose of discussing ways and means of j curbing Wilfred's crusades. "Well, don't do it." "Why the devil shouldn't we? We I don't want anarchists In the Ken- I more." After awhile, they sat silent. Par- i |bish smiling over the plot he had Just " devised, and the other man puffing with a puzzled expression at his clgar. | "That's all there is to it," summar- ' lzed Mr. Farblsh, succinctly. If we can get these two men, South and I Horton, together down there at the shooting lodge, under the proper conditions, they'll do the rest themselves, I think. I'll take care of South. Now, it's up to you to have Horton there at the same time." "How do you know these men have not already met?and amicably?" de- J manded Mr. Bradburn. ] "I happen to know it, quite by t chance. It is my business to know 1 things?quite by chance!" (To Be Continued.) I ' i GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered From All Around the World. The New Jersey senate, with only >ne dissenting vote, has passed a bill r 0 abolish capital punishment in that r itate. f Governor Carlson signed the bill n which makes state wide prohibition ^ ?fTectlve in Colorado on January 1, . 1916. * n The American steamer Pacific, Galveston to Rotterdam, laden with cotton, has been seized by the British lavy and taken to Dover. A new oil well, with a flow of 76 )arrels per day, has been drilled on 1 farm near Oil City, Pa. Oil was itruck at a depth of 987 feet Germany has arranged through the Jwiss government to exchange 30,000 French civilians Interned in Germany, t 'or 30,000 German civilians, interned I n Prance. B The attendance at the Panama-Pa- _ :iflc exposition, San Francisco, during he first fifteen days, totaled 1,000,000. 11 The average daily attendance is 50,000 o 60,000. d England has agreed to raise the t smbargo on wool to the United States Tom England and her colonies, on a fuarantee that the wool will not be s eshipped to Germany. v The Princess Stakhovsky, who be- n ongs to the Russian aviation corps, ^ las made several flights over the German lines and is said to be doing 0 atisfactory work as an air scout. p President Wilson has appointed 1 iouston B. Teehee of Tahlequah, )kla., to be register of the United States treasury, and also appointed Samuel L. Rogers of North Carolina, d o be director of the census. h The 29th infantry has been ordered d Tom Governor's Island, New York, to j, he Panama canal zone. The addition >f this regiment will bring the num- a >er of U. S. troops in the Canal zone ip to 3,000. The total resources of savings >anks of New York last year ln:reased by $29,000,000. The total relources of savings banks of Pennlylvania are reported at $244,269, u >92. y A London dispatch says that the t iamburg-American line steamship ^oorderdyk, Rotterdam to New York, p vas torpedoed in the English channel c >n March. She was able to return r ;o Rotterdam. a The captain of the American tank it earner Gulf Light, from Galveston, ^ aden with cotion, reponeu at oiemm, Friday, that he saw two British E freighters sunk by submarines as he ii jassed through the English channel. y Bread has become so scarce in a g lumber of provinces of Spain that se ious bread riots are breaking out in 0 :owns and cities. Spain is suffering more from the war than any other iountry except the belligerents. Thos. H. Matters, a widely known Jmaha, Neb., lawyer, has been convicted in the Federal court in that s :ity on the charge of aiding the of- I 'icers of the First National bank of ^ Sutton Neb., to wreck that institution ind misapplying funds. The stock fire insurance companies 8 loing business in the United States, t ast year wrote the largest volume v )f business in their history. Net h premiums written totaled $330,431, 74 Ijosses paid totaled $196,807, 8 >14. s Brigadier General Hugh 1* Scott h eft Washington last week for Utah, n vhere he goes to make an effort to pacify the rebellious Piute Indians md induce them to surrender their h eader, who is wanted for murder. The Indians have been giving much rouble for the past month. Lobbyists have been given notice :hat they must stay oft the floor of the Capitol building at Harrisburg, ivhile the local option liquor fight is jelng fought out in the Pennsylvania legislature. Governor Brumbough las raised the ire of the liquor in- ' Lerests by his determined fight' for a c ocal option law. p Mrs. Helen M. Angle, aged 40 j| pears, is on trial at Bridgeport, Conn., on the charge of having murdered Woldo R. Ballou in June last. Bal- 8 lou's body was found on the side- f walk, in front of Mrs. Angle's apart- a ments. She claimed he had fallen . Sown the steps. J For the seven months ending Jan- f uary 31 the exports from the United 8 States totaled $1,334,660,148. The t total increase in exports for January, a compared with the same month last year, was $63,812,710. The total trade Palance for January in favor of the I United States, was $145,506,996. # I Sixteen hundred miners were en- j tombed at Cabeza Del Buey, Spain, on e Friday by a terrific explosion. It is K feared that hundreds will be found dead c when the mine is again opened. So S severe was the shock of the explosion ^ that three persons were killed and a f number injured outside the mine. 1 A herd of 142 prize Guernseys, 88 of them registered thoroughbreds, at s Haddonfield, N. J., valued at $50,000, j has been ordered destroyed by the de- ^ partment of agriculture because the herd is infected with foot and mouth J disease. A herd of 40 head at Frank- ( ford. X. J.. was slaughtered Thursday, j The German National bank of Pitts- r burgh, Pu., closed its doors Thursday. . For years since its organization it has been characterized as the "Pittsburgh 1 Brewing company's bank." It is stat- I ed that "mismanagement, politics and ^ prohibition" contributed in equally large proportions to the failure of the * German National bank. t Secretary Bryan is reported to have i last week made very strong protests r to General Carranza, to bring about , an immediate end of the intolerable conditions existing in Mexico City. A 8 reign of terror in the capital city is feared by the American authorities and the representatives of other nations located in Mexico. An official French ministry of ma- * rine report says that a German sub- > marine of the U-2 type was sunk in the English channel, March 4, by a French destroyer. A London dispatch f claims that three other submarines were sunk during the week, two of 1 the undersea boats being victims of t merchant vessels. The U-8 was sunk g off Dover by a British destroyer and the crew of 29 members has been landed at Dover as prisoners of war. < The Almanach de Gotha for 1915, credits Germany with having 72 sub- s marines. ^ i e After deliberating for three-quar- 1 ters of an hour, the jury in the case a of W. E. Bush, charged with the kill- r ing of his brother-in-law, E. \V. Thurmond. on Friday returned a verdict of guilty of murder with recommendation to mercy. OOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS is Traced In Early Files ol The Yorkvflle Enquirer. IEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY 3ringing Up Racords of the Past and Giving the Younger Readore of To* day a Pretty Compreheneive Knowledge of the Thinga that Moat Concerned Generationa that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes ap>earing under this heading was pubished in our issue of November 14, [913. The notes are being prepared by he editor as time and opportunity pernit. Their purpose is to bring into eview the events of the past for the Measure and satisfaction of the older >eople and for the entertainment and nstruction of the present generation. 116TH INSTALLMENT (Wednesday Evening1, Jan. 7, 1863.) Mr. James M. Henkle. Mr. Editor: The gentleman whose tame is at the head of this article, a esldent of Santuc, Tork district, has urnlshed soldiers with leather to nake their shoes, at 37jc per pound srhen he could have sold it at $2 or 3 per pound. Such acts of a gentlenan and patriot should not pass unloticed. Edward Moore. January 3rd, 1863. ? ? (Wednesday Evening, Jan. 21, 1863.) Taylor's Creek, York, S. C., January 10, 1863. Mr. Grist: You will please Insert his notice for the purpose of letting he people of York district know that have yet on hand one carload of alt for them, and that their orders hall be filled as soon as received so ar as I may be able to supply them. The salt is of dark brown cast, but ry, and if possible, much stronger han the Liverpool salt, and will nswer for all purposes in Its present tate except for culinary purposes /hich can be remedied by dissolving I in clear water, and letting it stand or a few minutes to settle, then draw ff the clear water and use it for any iurpose whatsoever, in cooking, etc. 'here is no waste in it. I have directed a small sack to be ent to you and Mr. B. T. Wheeler for istrlbution among poor women whose usbands and sons are engaged In the efence of our country. Those living n this section of the district will call t my residence. Jno. N. McElwee, Jr. (Wednesday Evening, Jan. 28, 1863.) Pay Your Debts. Have you money? Don't hord it ip?heed not the stay law?but pay our debts. Money is more abundant han usual?everything is puffed, ex >anded to its utmost limit. There will ome perhaps at no distant day a coresponding contraction and pressure nd those who free themselves from ebt and the weight of interest will eel the pressure least, when it comes, lut don't fool away your cotton. It 3 bound to command high prices and ou may as well enjoy the profit as the peculator who sees it foreshadowed in ur coming recognition. (Wednesday Evening, Feb. 18, 1863.) Resignation. It is with regret that we have to tate, owing to continued ill health, iieut. Col. William H. McCorkle, of he 12th regiment, has felt compelled o resign his commission and that the ame has been accepted. In his reirement he carries with him the best fishes of all who know him; while in is regiment, his loss will be the more everely felt, as he had endeared himelf to all of them, by the anemity of lis manners and the impulsive kindiess of his heart, for which he is remarkable; to them his place will be ard to fill. (Wednesday Evening, Feb. 25, 1863.) Company F, 5th Regiment, S. C. V., Camp Near Fredericksburg, Va., February 12th, 1863. Editor of The Enquirer: Permit pace in the columns of your paper or the publication of the roll of the ild "King's Mountain Guards," (Co. \) fifth regiment, S. C. V. Perhaps t will be a pleasure to some of your eaders to look over the names, as ome of them no doubt have sons and riends in the company. When it first irrived in Virginia, on the second of rune, 1861, there were 72 rank and lie, but owing to the many battles tnd exposures incident to the service, ?ut 26 of the "old guard" remain to .newer the roll call: Officers? J. M. Harvey, Capt.; J. J. j* Gill, 1st Lieut.; H. J. Allison, 2nd >ieutW. E. Camnhell. 3rd Lieut.: r. A. Bell, 1st Sergt.; J. B. Moore, 2nd Sergt.; John Knox, 3rd Sergt.; J. H. Juinn, 4th Sergt.; J. S. Harvey, 5th Sergt.; U. J. Fewell, 1st Corp.; R. Z. .Vllson, 2nd Corp.; J. J. Gardner, 3rd Jorp.; J. H. Yearwood, 4th Corp. Privates?J. T. Adkins, R. J. Armitrong, J. R. Barber, T. R. Bates, J. if. Barnett, N. B. Campbell, F. M. 'oster, J. C. Fairies, J. W. Gardner, J. r. W. Gassaway, W. N. Gordon, R. B. 51enn, A. B. Galloway, E. A. Gettys, >. M. Hand, R. A. Hagans, D. W. Har ison, J. FL Harper, W. A. Jeffreys, E. Johnson, T. P. Kllgo, G. J. Knox, T. i. Lynn, J. D. 'Lynn, Jos. Murphy, C. I. Mlntz, J. R. Miller, J. T. McBrayer, [". J. Mann, R. L. McCantts, David McSwaln, J. H. Neely, D. F. Parish, Curls Parrott, J. B. Roblson, Robt. Rob son, M. M. Rolls, Charles Simmons, ?V. E. Suton, M. L. Thomasaon, W. 3. Whitaker, L. H. Wilson, Wm. Wation, W. G. Cobb. (Wednesday Evening, March 4, 1863.) Brig. Gen. M. Jenkins was at home vith us on a visit to his family, this veek, but has returned to his brigade. It is really astonishing the number >f shoemakers, "skilled in the art," hat the conscription has brought "to he fore" in York district. Lynn, Maslachusetts, is hardly a circumstance. [Wednesday Evening, March 18, 1863.) Capt. L. M. Grist, at present home on i wounded furlough, has been detail d as enrolling officer of conscripts for Lancaster district, at the courthouse, it which he expects to be on Friday, i ext. (Wednesday Evening, April 8, 1863.) The Bath paper mill in Edgefield district, was consumed by Are on the second, Inst. It was about to close up on account of the high price of cotton; they having been compelled to use the raw material, from the impossibility of procuring rags. "OF NO PRESENT VALUE" Status of Carolina Bonds Hold in New Hampshire. Exhaustive Investigation by the attorney general of New Hampshire, has satisfied that officer that thirty of the $1,000 bonds issued by the state of South Carolina in 1869, are of "no present value." He has therefore decided not to bring suit against the state of South Carolina for collection on the bonda The decision was reached by the attorney general, who was in Columbia in 1913, and was given by Attorney General Peeples a "complete compilation of all the statutes of his sfBte relating to bond Issues and also thte decisions of the South Carolina supreme court on the same subject." The bonds in question came into the possession of the state of New Hampshire in 1892, us a part of the estate of Benjamin Thompson of Durham, unaer me provisions 01 mi wm relating to the establishing of the New Hampshire college in that town. At that time they were entered on the books of the state treasurer as of "no present value," and the same entry Is "equally and aptly applicable at the present time. No fact has been discovered which indicates any future change of value,'' says James P. Tut- j tie, present attorney general of New Hampshire. Discussing the bonds, Mr. Tuttle i writes in his annual report "There ; had been numerous acts of legislation ; in the state of South Carolina in re- i gard to bond issues during the 'Re- i construction period.' There had also : been several decisions of its supreme i court in regard to these bond acts and i bond issues thereunder. On this visit i to Columbia, the attorney general of i New Hampshire met the attorney gen- i eral of South Carolina, the state treas- < urer and the governor. Every possible i courtesy was extended by them, but i no encouragement was given that the i bonds would ever be paid. The claim < was made that the bonds were found- i ed upon carpet bagger legislation and i methods and were in consequence 11- j legal and void. The bonds carry on their face some veldence of this, for i each bond is dated January 1, 1869, < and purports to be authorized by an < act of March 23, 1869. The constitution of South Carolina at that time requir- ] ed that an act authorizing an issue of < their face some evidence of this, for < what purpose the funds raised by the ] bond issue were to be used or applied. The act in question did not comply < with thlB requirement. < "A somewhat exhaustive study of < these statutes and decisions of the < United States supreme court made it < quite plain that a recovery upon the j bonds could not be made unless it 1 could be proven that the state of 1 South Carolina actually received the 1 money from the sale of these partlcu- ! lax bonds."?Chester News. HAPPENINQ8 IN THE 8TATE \ Items of Interest from All 8ections of 1 South Carolina. J A movement Is on foot to erect a $60,000 hotel in Caffney. Mayor John P. Grace of Charles- f ton, who was operated on last week i for appendicitis is rapidly lmprov- j ing. j Rev. Dr. Edward T. Horn, for 22 i years pastor of St. John's Lutheran 1 church in Charleston, died in Phil- < adelphia, Pa., last week. 1 The town of Westminster has issued bonds in the amount of $16,000, j the money to be used in improving the electric lighting plant in the town. { Arthur Lee has been elected cap- , tain of the Trayham Guards of Laurens, succeeding W. R. Richie, Jr., , who resigned because of his frequent j absence from the city. ( Cornelius Gambrell a negro, has l been bound over to court in default 1 of a $500 bond on the charge of as- < saulting Dr. E. H. Parks, a Jewler of i Anderson, several days ago. James Gohagen a Bamberg county 1 farmer, Is in a serious condition in 1 a Charleston hospital suffering with j paralysis as the result of a pistol 1 wound in the side received last week. 1 Essie Burnsides, a negro, shot and j killed his wife in Greenville county . Wednesday in a fit of Jealousy. The | negro also probably fatally wounded ( Arthur Jones, a young negro man. ( He has been arrested. Alfred Hampton, youngest son of ; the late General Wade Hampton, has ] been appointed assistant commissioner ; general of immigration, by Secretary Wilson. Hampton has been in the i government service since 1884. i William Friar, a white man, : pleaded guilty to counterfeiting in ] the United States court at Florence ' last week. He was sentenced to pay 1 a fine of $100 and serve six months ' in the Florence county Jail. The case of J. H. Buice against E. j H. DeCamp, editor of the Gaffney , Ledger charging libel, and which was set for trial at the court of common pleas for Cherokee county last week, j has been continued. L. L. Bultman of Columbia, has i been appointed state dispensary audi- { tor to succeed M. H. Mobley, whose term has expired. Albert S. Fant of ( Union, was named as assistant audi- ; tor. The appointment is for four years. i The four-year-old daughter of ' John Harris of Easley died Friday, i as the result of burns received several i days previous. The little tot had at- 1 tempted to put out a Are in some dry I grass, when she was overcome and ' burned. 1 A verdict of $10,000 was awarded J Mrs. Sophia Hughes in Florence Friday against the Atlantic Coast Line railway on account of the death of her husband. The deceased was killed by being run over by a railway train about one year ago. The home of former Magistrate Harrison Ferguson of Spartanburg, ; was destroyed by Are last week. A relative of the magistrate's who was asleep in the house at the time had , a narrow escape from death by suffocation. Sam J. Nlcholls of Spartanburg, has announced his intention to run for congress from the Fourth Congressional district in the event of the appointment of Congressman Joseph j T. Johnson as Judge of the newly created Western district court of : South Carolina. A. E. Silverthorne, an employee of the Barnwell Lumber Co., of Barnwell, entered a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court at Charleston last week. His liabilities were scheduled at $21, 166.12 and his assets were stated as 1 "none of any consequence." While Dr. J. L. Hamilton, a dentist ( of Chester, was out of his office a few i 1 A _ _ -A 1- A ?UIA$ 1 IlllllUies IUSI >vtren, a unci, icuocu him of about $50 worth of gold used in filling teeth as well as a number of dental instruments. The thief later ( sold part of the property to other , Chester dentists. I Special constables for the Southern railway in South Carolina have been appointed by Governor Manning, upon j the recommendation of E. H. Coap- . man, vice president and general man- i ager. The appointments were made i in accordance with a special law. The < constables are to be paid by the rail- ' way. The following officers were ap- i pointed: P. Hanley, Charleston; J. L. ( Sanders, Rock HJ11; H. J. Britt, North i Augusta; J. C. Seagle, Columbia; T. 1 J. Smyrle, Columbia; J. H. Lowe, Co- ] lumbia, I. Cox, Greenville; R. E. Mil- ; ler, Spartanburg; L. L. Turner, Spar- i tanburg; L F. Evans, Greenville, Jas. j Alston, Greenville: H. T. B. Mayes, ] Greenville. < HOW TO HANDLE COTTON. Hod. John McLaurin Makes Stirring Speech at Sumter. THE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM AND FINANCE Now, that tha Stat? Has Provided the Means, it ia Up to the Cotton Producers to Take Advantage of It? The Commissioner Tells of Many Different Profits that are Taken Out of Cotton Between the Ginner and the 8pinner, and Undertakes to 8how j How These May be Saved to the Producer. Hon. John L. McLaurin spoke to &n audience of farmers of Sumter and adjoining counties in the court house at Sumter last Friday, on the subject of cotton, cotton marketing and the j financing or couon. Tne auoience gave close attention throughout his speech, which required an hour and a half in its delivery, and was tremendously Interested In all he had to say. Following is the address In full: Fellow Citizens: I appreciate the invitation extended to me by the farmers of Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties, to be with them today. 1 wish to talk to you, first about the state warehouse system, and endeavor to explain its operations In such a way as to show you that, while it is not what it should be, it Is still a great improvement over anything that the farmers have yet had. It is a practical step !.* the right direction, and its success so far should encourage us to go forward and perfect the system. It has been fought from Its inception, and in the recent session of the general assembly, bitter personal attacks were made upon me in order to destroy the state warehouse. It is not my purpose to either defend myself or to Indulge in criticism of others. Let them think and say what they please, so long as 1 approve of myself, it matters little to me what others think. I only accepted the position because I believed at the time that it was necessary for me to do so in order to make the experiment a success. The extra session of the general assembly of 1914, appropriated the sum of $16,000, and it was the latter part of November before we could begin work. Up to the present time we mave taken over thirty-two warehouses, and given the farmers of this state a practical demonstration of how much cheaper cotton can be stored, fou can build a warehouse on your own farm, which will store 600 bales of cotton at a cost of about $400. Including Insurance, and all expenses connected with the same, the storage of your cotton will be about 8 1-3 cents per bale per month. Is it any wonder that those Interested in standard warehouses, with banking connections, which have been charging from 26 to 35 cents per bale, object to the state warehouse? I have not engaged In a war on these institutions, but, in obedience to- my official duty, I have merely gone ahead to assist the farmers of this state in reducing the rates For storing cotton. Now, let me explain to you, before [ go any further, just how to take advantage of the state warehouse system. I think that each warehouse should have a capacity of not less than 500 bales, though, owing to the emergency, I have taken over warehouses smaller than this. All that you need Is a wooden frame, and you can go In the woods and cut posts, and if necessary, put them In the ground, but it would be better to put them on sills raised off the ground; then build a house, say, 50x100 feet, which would give you a 19-foot rafter. It must be 100 feet from any exposure to fire. There must be two doors on each side and a door in each end. In order to comply with the insurance regulations and get the lowest rate. You can put poles down on the ground a,nd pile your cotton on that, so as to keep it dry, and it would be well enough to cut a small trench around the entire house, throwing the dirt Inward. Then you can make application to me, and I will take this house over at a nominal rental, one dollar per year, and appoint whomever you choose as manager, weigher and grader, and you will give a bond to guarantee the custody of that cotton and Its delivery on demand, and also your own weights and grades. You can get an expert to grade your cotton at so much per bale. It doesn't matter who does it, so that you give me a bond to protect the state of South Carolina from loss on the grades. The state furnishes the receipts, tags and all necessary blanks at no expense to you. You will then pay three cents per bale per month to the state, and you will also pay the insurance. When we began business, the insurance rate on that class warehouse was about $3.40 per hundred. I can get you a rate now of $1.75, and I have completed arrangements, which will be put into operation as soon as we can draft a form of a policy, which will reduce this insurance rate about 30 cents a hundred. Now, if you will make the calculation, you will see that you can keep your cotton at home at a cost of about eight cents per bale per month for all expenses, that you will save hauling and handling it, and will also get a warehouse receipt in which the state of South Carolina guarantees the weight and grade of your cotton, and which in Boston and New York, is more acceptable as a collateral than a receipt from any private or corporate-owned warehouse?a paper which, as it becomes better and better known, will establish its character in the money markets of the world, and enable the farmers of this state to get the cheapest rate of interest obtainable. The same system has been put into operation in the state of Texas, and It came from the agitation which we began three years ago in South Carolina for a state warehouse system. Now, if there is anybody who does not understand what I have Just explained, I should be very glad, before 1 leave mis suDjeci, 10 answer any questions, so as to make it perfectly plain. My suggestion now is that each community In Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties build warehouses, by a number Joining in together, to take care of their surplus cotton. Ten men who make fifty bales of cotton apiece, can go in and buy the iron, and with their own labor, put up the warehouse. I desire to say, further, that in the purchase of the corrugated iron needed for these warehouses, that I can get it in carload lots, according to the last quotations which I received, at $2.62, laid down in Sumter. They will charge you retail about $3.75 per square for the 77-pound stuff. You could probably, by taking a carload, buy it as cheaply through some of your large hardware merchants here. But if you cannot, and the Farmers' Union of Sumter will select a man to get up a list of parties who desire to construct warehouses, I will make the purchase of the iron for you, which can be paid for when the car Is delivered. But, my friends, in order to get the financial relief which the farmers of the south need, it is absolutely necessary that we should do something more than merely warehouse our cotton. Anybody who considers the subject of cotton except from the standpoint of a financial question, can never come to an Intelligent conclusion. A. warehouse system is a mere incident to the great question of handling and marketing the crop. Cotton is the corner stone of international finance, rhe credits which come out of this great cotton crop is the basis of the ?ntire banking system, not only of the 3outh, but, I might almost say, of the United States. Wheat and other food products occupy prominent and important positions, but do not compare In this respect with cotton, for food products are made all over the temperate zone, and cotton, as a commercial proposition, is a practical mono poly in thirteen soutnern states, xne ri great financiers of this country un- | derstand this thoroughly, and the cotton crop of the south has been used by them for the past, thirty years to H hold the balance of trade in favor of 11 the United States. The business of this world?ninety per cent of it?is done on credit, and where not on credit per se, by the use p of paper money redeemable in gold, u New Tork, which is the financial centre of this country, furnishes the south the credits upon which to pro- c duce the cotton crop. Then, in the fall, instead of selling our cotton crop for credit money of the same character that we used in its production, the two-thirds of the crop which P is exported, is sold for gold. This fi gold is controlled in New Tork, and as x a ~S ?IJ 1 _ tk. In uie ttiuuuui ui gum in iuc wunu 10 limited, it keeps the floating gold used by the nations in settling their t' trade balances, under the control of n the New York banks. It is not that n these people are the enemies of the south, or that they would not like to ? see us prosper, but for their own self- T Interest, and to maintain the suprem- Cl icy which they have acquired through p the salt of our cotton, they must con- * irol that gold. It is for this reason *"< that anything like a holding movement w is bitterly fought by the New York 0 banks, and all of the banks and 11- [lanclal Interests of the south who are ? dependent upon New York. f, It goes without saying that if the g farmers of the south plaice themselves p in a position where they can hold their E cotton, and only market it when it 0 ihows a fair profit, that they can al- t( vays get whatever price they choose a :o ask for it. If any fact was needed B :o show the enormous power that the E cotton crop of the south holds In the jj financial world, we have just seen it. ^ When war was declared last August, t, t it had not been for the efforts of 0 rnch men as Mr. Dabbs, Mr. Barrett, a Dr. Stackhouse, Walter Clark of Mis- p ilssippi, and others, cotton would t) iever have recovered, and gone back n ip to eight cents a pound. As it is, ? he farmers of the south have had at c east 1400,000,000 taken from their y pockets. The men who have held d heir cotton, and resisted every pres- e. ?ure and influence to sell it, are the tj patriots who have made a market A ind enabled others to sell at eight U] :ents a pound. If, last August, we lad been able to put away and abso- w utely retire 6,000,000 bales of cotton, 0 md the consuming world had realized n hat fact, the other 10,000,000 bales ej vould have brought more money than Jr he entire crop of 16,000,000. And yet, t( rom the rate at which cotton is be- c( ng consumed, it looks as if there ti vould be a market for every bale of p, :otton in the south. The cotton which t? vas forced out of the farmers' hands , n November and December, at from ive to six and one-half cents, has >een exported, and is bringing from r< welve cents in England to thirty g sents a pound in Russia. h I have contended all the time that tl here was, immediately after the de- C( :laratlon of war, a conspiracy in this h: country and abroad to stampede the 0] 'armens and make them sell their th :otton at whatever it would bring, b: The treasury department of the Unit- b >d States shows, as a matter of fact, ir hat more cotton was exported in ei Tanuary and February than for the n tame months last year. Instead of p lecreaslng the consumption of cotton, 0i var seems to have found new uses for 21 t The uniforms worn by all the a irmies in the world now, instead of V is in former days, being composed of w vool, are made from cotton. A soldier cl n the held only wears a uniform h ibout thirty days, and then It is w hrown away and replaced by a new cl >ne. Cotton is absolutely essential to tl he manufacture of explosives. Every d< >ound of powder means the consump- ir ion of a pound of cotton. One of the ir German 42-centimeter guns consumes ir >00 pounds of cotton every time it is b ired. The smaller guns, such as the a 14-inch guns, consume about three b lundred pounds of cotton every time ir >ne of them is fired; one of the large 01 )attleships burns up ten bales of cot- c< on every minute its batteries are in w iction. That is what is going with a' he low-grade cotton?as for llnters, ai r'ou don't see any of them in this h; country, and it would be a very in- c< eresting thing to know what the lint- k< ;rs have been sold for since this war a >egan, because the llnters, being of hi ihorter fibre, are better adapted to the pi naking of explosives. So it seems a hat, after all, if the channels of the vl tea were opened, that there is a mark- pi it for even this large crop. kl It is not a question of there being w 1 demand for our cotton, but of other t) >eople, who have nothing to do with p] he making of that coton, reaping all hi he profits. Every bale of cotton has, M standing between it and the mill in Ad Sngland or Germany, from six to M light middle-men, who must have a tl >roflt out of it, and that leaves noth- ai ng but a loss for the man who made c< he cotton. What the farmers of the w south must do, and what they are rolng to do, once they understand the situation, is not only to have state . varehouses, but to sell the cotton from he state warehouse direct to the mill p hat is going to manufacture it. Of 8< :ourse those who are profiting, and e> livldlng between them more money han the farmer gets for the actual ;otton itself, object to a change of his kind, and will resist it to the " leath. We are not trying to rob them, a >ut we are trying to keep them from aking from us that to which they are ;? lot entitled. " It is a manifest impossibility to narket a 12-months supply of cotton n three months, and as the debt con- rc racted for the making of that cotton C( x>mes due in the fall, we must place JY >urselves in a position where we can llj ret the money to pay our debts and ^ lold the cotton. The first step in that a lirection, my friends, is to make our p< 'arms self-sustaining. As long as we , lepend entirely upon commercial ferilizers, as long as our corn crib and ?| imoke house are in the west instead p< >f on the farm, our debts will continue ai O UC au gictii IIICI.1 wc uiuoi oauiuw >ur cotton in order to meet them. There Is no system of state warehous- fK ng, finance or anything else, that will pi rive relief from any such folly as that, md if this war does not do anything v. >lse except to teach us to make our al 'arm self-sustaining, it is well worth "J he loss to us which it has occasion- P1 :d- a! But, let me ask you a question, now. P Suppose you make 100 bales of cotton j11 lext fall, and this spring you have to ,n >uy your corn and your hay and your rf lour, and pay for it out of that coton, and pay the fertilizer debt, too; vhat good is that 100 bales of cotton roing to do you? But, suppose, initead of making 100 bales of cotton, fr fou only made 50, and you had your 1 >wn corn, hay and feed, and in the P* 'all only owed a small fertilizer debt, *} md every other farmer in the south " vas in the same situation; you would >e in a position then to put your cot- ^ on into a warehouse and to hold it, a md if you got 15 cents a pound for it p< nstead of 7 1-2 cents, wouldn't it turn / ou out just the same amount of r: noney, (and it would be your money) r* is the 100 bales would at 7 1-2 cents? P n addition to that, if every farmer in ^ he south was pursuing that plan, and JY hey were offering 15 cents for cotton, rp 'ou could take your state warehouse eceipt and borrow 12 cents a pound on t, and hold it just as long as you ,1 fiease. With the present price of 'ood, clothing, and everything else, niddling cotton in the south, under i condition of affairs like that, would M >e more eagerly sought at 20 cents a gi jound than it is today at 7 cents a of >ound. The way that you are fixed now, bi rou have got a rope around your neck bt ind the bankers and the moneyed h< nen have got hold of the other end of h* he rope, and they can choke you to th leath at any time they choose to pull sh t. No man who Is loaded up with in lebt is a free man. He who controls h? rour means of subsistence, controls it 'ou. We are the slaves of our credit- bj irs, disguise it as you will. P< Now, there is one thing that is ci >lalnly apparent. This year will show bi nore foodstuffs raised than ever be- tr (Continued on Page Four.) rULU BT LUIAL tAbHAilutS lews Happenings Id Neighboring Communities. ONDENStD FOR QUICK READING loaling Mainly With Loeal Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lan> caster and Chester. Chester Reporter, March 4: From resent Indications, rural route No. 2, rom Chester will be discontinued after larch 15, as much as such procedure rill inconvenience the many patrons in tiat part of the county and the umerous others who transact bunless from time to time by means f the mail facilities on the said route, 'he matter was brought before the ounty commissioners Monday, by 'ostmaster J. W. Dunovant, and as a fault of the discussion, a committee as appointed to visit the two points n the route comnlalned of by the ostofflce department Members of Is congregation, as well as former riends and acquaintances, will be rieved to learn of the death of Rev. i. A. Child, D. D., former pastor of lethel M. B. church of this city, which ccurred at Hendersonvllle, N. C., yessrday, after several months of gradully declining health Eugene W. irantley, aged sixteen, died at the lureka mill Tuesday, after a short In ess from pneumonia, and was urled yesterday in Evergreen cemejry Prof. D. L. Rambo, president f the County Teacher* association, nd Prof. J. P. Moore, principal of the lchburg Graded school, members of le special committee appointed to take arrangements for County Field >ay, held a conference at the office of ounty Superintendent of Education 7. D. Knox, Tuesday afternoon, and ecided not to attempt any Field Day sercises this year in view of the fact lat the date selected for Field Day, pril 2nd, is close at hand, and little r no preparation has been made for te event Mr. John W. Wix, the ell known merchant, has decided to jnsolldate his two stores in order to >duce expenses, and will remove his ntire stock from the Hill to his store i the Valley. Mr. Wix will continue > handle ladles' goods, with the coemption of millinery, and will dlsconnue the latter line after he has dls sed of his present stock to the reill trade. Gaffney Ledger, March 6: The Natives and friends of Mr. Thomas pencer are requested to meet at his ome place in the Draytonvllle seeon of the county on March 21st, to slebrate the ninetieth anniversary of is birth. Mr. Spencer is one of the ;dest residents of Cherokee county and te reunion which is planned to celerate the anniversary of his birth will e a memorial one. ...Mr. R. M. Wllkis is having erected near the Farm's' warehouse on Frederick street a ew warehouse that will house aproxlmately from 6,000 to 6,000 bales f cotton. The building will be 5x124 feet, and Is being constructed t a cost of approximately $3,600. /hen the warehouse is completed It ill greatly Increase the storing fallitles of Cherokee county John l. juwrc, u. ixew tun uiouiau, uu ma ay from his home city to San FranIsco, walking, spent Tuesday night in le city as the guest of the local firs apartment. He is making the walk i order to Interest the larger dtJes i the platoon system of fire depart Lenta Mr. Moore went to Spartanurg from this city The first Lonthly report of the South Carolina ureau of vital statistics, shows that 1 Cherokee county, during the month f January there were 48 births, as umpared with 24 deaths during the une time. The report shows than an yerage annual birth-rate of 18.9 and n annual death rate of 12.4 per thouuid Inhabitants in the state. In imparison with other counties, Cheroee stands extremely well, having birth-rate of 20 per thousand inabitants and a death rate of only 11.8 er thousand Mr. D. C. Phillips, prosperous farmer of the Draytonille section of the county, yesterday, aid Mr. Jesse Sanders of the WilInsvllle section of the county, $1.00 hich he had been owing him for thlrr-eight years. The transaction took lace in the Ledger office. Mr. Sanders ad entirely forgotten the debt, but [r. Phillips stated that he never saw [r. Sanders without thinking of it r. Sanders remarked that this was te oldest debt he had ever collected, id he also stated that Mr. Phillips >uld not have paid it to a man who as in worse need of a pair of shoes. Fort Mill Times, Msrch 4: The Mastic theatre, Fort Mill's moving icture show, which was closed down >veral months ago on account of sneral business conditions, is again >en to the public. The theatre gave s re-opening show yesterday, and r the present, will show twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday. J. E. Jones, well known young man of the townlip, on Saturday, purchased the lnrest of Mayor A. R_ McElhaney in te Majestic, and in the future will wist in the management of the show. ....It is apparent from the demand >r young pigs that the people of this immunity propose to have hog to go 1th their hominy next winter. In fact, ie demand is greater than the supply though several breeders have found most profitable investment in preiring to supply this demand, and om their example others are being iclined to do likewise. L. A. Harris ' the Riverside farm, sold six young >rkers at an aggregate price of $100, id has supplied others at somewhat wer prices. Osmond Barber of the r>i Ua ao lr fa wn kos anM HnHnc + Vl a ist season about fifty pigs at good rices and will have more to offer in short while. John J. Bailee of the alley farm is making a start and has sout thirty head on his farm, but me for sale Announcement is ade that W. L. Hall, a well known islness man of Fort Mill, will, the rat of the coming week, move with is family to the B. D. Springs farm i upper Fort Mill, Mr. Hill having Krently traded with Mr. Springs to ipervise the working of the farm. t. Hall's mercantile business in this ty will be continued under the manjement of his son, Mr. George Hall, r. Hall is well known, having served le town at different times in the caicity of mayor and chief of police, id has many friends here who regret tat he is to move away Samuel oyd, a resident of upper Fort Mill, tiled at the Times office Saturday, id requested a correction of the rejrt circulated in last week's paper i the effect that his daughter. Miss eulah, was afflicted with smallpox, r. Boyd explained that his daughter id visited the home of Mrs. Osborne ist before the latter was stricken 1th the disease, but that as soon as le nature of Mrs. Osborne's affliction 'fflme known, his daughter was sue >ssfully vaccinated and up to Sat-day, had shown no symptoms of havg contracted the disease. King's Mountain Herald, March 4: rs. L. H. Long has word from Morinton, that her brother, Joe Bowers ' that city, was found in his house utally murdered on last Friday. The >dy when found was lying on the ?arth in a pool of his own blood. His ?ad was badly beaten up. Whether ie whole job was done with the ash lovel is not known, but it was used the killing. Mr. Bowers seems to tve been a man of some means and is supposed that he was murdered / highwaymen and robbed The istal telegraph office at Bessemer ty has been discontinued and the isiness which has been going on there ansferred to the King's Mt. office. (Continued on Page Four.)