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Scraps and |arts. ? Sergeant Fuller, who recently won the Victoria Cross in Flanders and has since been assisting in the recruiting campaign in England, won two recruits at Fishguard, England, last Friday, by entering a lion's den. Fuller was speaking at an open air meeting in a vacant lot adjoining a small menagerie, when two young men in the outskirts of the audience jestingly remarked to him: "We'll Join if you are brave enough to enter that lion's cage unarmed." "I'll just take you at your word," returned Fuller without a moment's hesitation. "Lions have no terror for anyone who has been in the front trenches in Flanders." He strode over to the menagerie, obtained the permission of the proprietor, and entered the cage, where there were two lions. Amid tremendous excitement in the crowd, he calmly stroked the lions /?* *nm unH than urnlbo/l out of the cage and resumed his place on the recruiting platform. ? Winston-Salem, N. C., August 7: At 11.15 o'clock tonight Judge E. B. Cline, of the superior court, having received the verdict of the Jury?murder in the first degree?condemned Mrs. Ida Ball Warren and Samuel .Preston Christy to death in the electric chair Friday, September 24, for the murder of G. J. Warren, husband of Mrs. Warren. Clifton Stonestreet, found guilty of being an accessory after the fact, was sentenced to three years in state's prison. An appeal was taken, filed for the defendants as paupers. Mrs. Warren stood erect until the words fixing the date were uttered, then, with a quick, nervous , Jerk, sank into her chair, drooping for a minute, and then resuming apparent calmness. In the event Mrs. Warren is electrocuted, she will be the first woman to go to the chair in this state and, it is said, the second woman ever to pay the death penalty in North Carolina. Warren was missed from his home here after August 18, of last year, and his body was found in Muddy creek, Forsyth county, last April. Christy, during the interim, had gone back to Texas, where he had lived for years with Mrs. Warren, and hence the woman, then posing as the * wife of Christy, alias Kearns, eloped with Warren. ? The Manchester, England, Guardian, in an article on the BritishAmerican notes concerning the blockade, says: "A great deal depends on our meeting the American ? point of view, if we can. What should we lose if we did meet it? Of neutral ports there could be no blockade, but we might extend the doctrine of continuous voyage so as to secure the right to luiervepi an cuiumuaiiu iuijjuhcu through neutral ports for German use. We might go further and extend our list of contraband to cover cotton and conceivably even foodstuffs imported through neutral ports for Germany, and still our action would lie within forms of international law and give the United States no ground for protest. It would remove the screen which we are placing between Germany and the full gale of American indignation over her inhumane outrages on law. It would keep up, so far as it can be kept up with justice to ourselves, the distinction between civilian and belligerent use of articles of commerce. Lastly, and most important, it might lay the foundation of that active friendship with America which, whatever happens in this war, must be a necessity of any sound British foreign policy in the future.'' ? New Orleans, August 7: In a final report on the cotton crop of 1914-15, H. G. Hester, secretary of the New Orleans cotton exchange, showB that while 17,004,000 bales were grown, the commercial crop was only 15,108,111 bales and that the value of the crop, including seed, was $749,384,979, as against $1,134,444,114 for the preceding crop. The crop is spoken of as running remarkably even in grade, averaging middling, without a super-abundance of either the higher or the lower grades. The average price per pound for middling during the year was 7.94 cents against 13.49 the preceding year. A feature of the report concerning the use of linters, which enter into the manufacture of explosives. From a monthly average of 26,000 bales of lintera during the first half of the season, the consumption jumped to 40,000 bales during the second half. There was an increase of 86,000 bales over last year's whole season consumption. During the period of low prices both northern and southern spinners bought freely, their average takings being 6,354,000 bales, a new high record. The consumption in the southern group of mills exceeding the previous record made last year by 100,000 bales. The south consumed 3,163,000 bales, the north 2,618,000 and the entire world 14,134,000. Dividing the commercial crop into states, Texas easily leads with 4,619,000 bales, and Georgia comes second with 2,440,000. Dividing consumption in the south, North Carolina leads with 91S.192 bales, South Carolina being second with 825,838. The maximum consumption in the south occurred in June when the offtake was 300,000 bales. ? Rear Admiral Caperton, commanding the American naval forces in Hayti, reported last Sunday that he iiau ictncii uvn uic aumiiusuauuu vs* the customs office at Cape Haytian and had placed Paymaster Charles Morris of the cruiser Washington, temporarily in charge. No mention was made of the reported seizure of the customs office at Port Au Prince. Business conditions in Cape Haytian, the dispatch said, were improving, and there was an apparent disposition among the natives to support the city government being recognized by Admiral Caperton. The admiral's dispatch reported the arrival of the Haytien gunboat Nord Alexis at Port Au Prince with 800 disarmed Haytien soldiers who were escorted to their homes by the American marines after pledging themselves to keep the peace. ? A conference which was believed to have had an important bearing on efforts to restore peace in Mexico, was held in Washington last Saturday by Secretary of State Lansing, and Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. Questions arising from the recent panAmerican financial conference also are said to have been taken up. Before leaving for Washington Mr. Lansing declined to make any statement. Mr. McAdoo was summoned to New York from Maine to meet Mr. Lansing. The two cabinet members were together for several hours. Much interest was attached to the meeting because of the report that Mr. McAdoo who had seen President Wilson at Cornish, during the week, was supposed to convey to Mr. Lansing the president's exact ideas regarding plans to bring the warring Mexican leaders together. There were reports that the object of the meeting was to arrange financial measures necessary to establish a stable government in the southern republic. On these and other matters, Mr. Lansing declined to talk. "I have absolutely nothing to say," was his answer to all questions. t>V,l1i? r? ll'.wkii./ipth ,xt Tovaa r?itv Texas, was arrested in a brokerage office in New York last Saturday, charged with using the mails in a scheme to defraud. Wadsworth in April, 1912, promoted the sale of the stock of the Cotton Growers' Cooperative society of Alabama, a $50,000,000 corporation. Wadsworth was arraigned before a United States commissioner and held in $2,500 bond for a hearing on August 26. He was arrested on an indictment returned by a Federal grand jury at Atlanta, Ga. The general offices of the Cotton Growers' society were in Atlanta. The indictment against Wadsworth charges that the charter was fraudulently obtained; that no part of the capital stock was subscribed for at the time the application was made, and that it never was intended to have a capital stock of $50,000,000. It further alleges that letters mailed at Atlanta by Wadsworth, who is said to have controlled the society, were intended to defraud W. J. Speights of Buchanan, Ga.; H. A. Childs of Butler, Ga.: J. H. Mizie of Buchanan, and others. The indictment further charges that in the promotion and sale of the stock of the society, Wadsworth falsely represented that the corporation was in good faith offering valuable stock; that it was a bona fide corporation and was formed for the purpose of creating a system for the marketing of the American cotton crop so as to obtain for a grower a reasonable price for the cotton produced by a plan of co-ope ration. It is charged that the literature sent through the mails stated that there was to be a bond issue of $200,000,000, and that the total reserve was $250,000,000. The plan of the society, it is alleged, also called for the appointment of superintendents and other officials in various parts of the cotton belt. Wadsworth is said to have represented to the cotton growers that they were "easy marks for the manipulators, who were robbing them to the extent of $120,000,000 a year.'* Cooperation was the weapon, it is claimed Wadsworth told the growers, by which they could take a commanding position in the market before next Christmas. Wadsworth also is said to have told the growers that representatives in the cotton belt were collecting cotton sufficient to assure a market price of 15 cents a pound. Ihe ^(orlu'illf (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at York as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORK. S. C.: TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1915 Great Britain knows that the United States is not prepared for war and that she could not prepare herself under two years. If the American cotton crop is to be bought as a war measure, it will pay the United States much better to buy it herself, rather than leave the matter to the British. We unhesitatingly side with those people of Greenville who object to the action of the county legislative delegation in attempting to run the affairs of the county. In assuming to appoint the sheriff's deputy for instance, the delegation was a little too smart. ? ? ? Some newspapers and contributors are having: their biennial discussion urging the abolition of the county-tocounty campaign. It will furnish a fruitful subject for fifty years yet at least.?Newberry Observer. We hope the Observer is correct about this thing and we really believe it is. There has been much dispute as to how much cotton is required to make a pound of powder, and Commerce and Finance takes it upon itself to say that the proportion is about one and a half pounds of powder to each pound of cotton. Our observation is that Commerce and Finance is usually quite careful to state its facts correctly. It is pretty generally recognized that all constitutional powers not specifically delegated to representatives, remain with the people. It would seem to us that if one would argue that the legislature has no right to delegate authority to the people, the answer would be that such delegation is unnecessary for the reason that the specified authority necessarily abides with the people already. Feople should commund the respect of their fellows on a basis of their usefulness. The producer is always of more value than the non-producer. It is the non-producer, however, who usually seeks to establish his social and political position above the producer. Ordinarily, the producers, being of a matter-of-fact turn of mind, seldom pay much attention to the swell-head pretensions of the nonproducers. Non-producers give their attention principally to the acquisition of property already accumulated by others, and property in course of accumulation. It will be remembered that it was nearly a year after the European war broke out before the British people began to take the matter seriously. It was next to impossible for the average Briton to realize that he could ever be concerned. Many of our own American newspapers and consequently the people, are looking at the matter the same way. We sincerely hope that there will be no trouble so far as this country is concerned; but somehow we feel right now that It would be better to spend $250,000,000 in preparation, without having a war, than to have a war break upon us all at once without any preparation. A friend in Bethel writes: "I have always believed that The Enquirer was edited for the benefit of its subscribers. I have never seen a great deal to Indicate that the editor was disposed to allow himself to be used as a mouthpiece, however liberal he has been 1n allowing others to say what they want to say in their own proper names. It would not be correct for me to say that recent developments have taught me anything I did not know already, but still I am pleased that the situation has been made so clear as to put it within the comprehension of others who might not have understood." As to how this "test case" on the question as to whether the general assembly is within its constitutional rights in attempting to delegate to the people the right to decide at the ballot box whether they want prohibition, is going to end, we do not know. It is easy enough to see that the supreme court, if it sees proper, can hold its decision back until after the time for the election has expired and then no matter how the decision goes the whole thing will be off for the present. But if the supreme court does decide that the legislature cannot transfer its powers to the people, or the supreme court delays the election by procrastination, we think it will be up to the general assembly to olotoM'irlo np<thihitinn ut nPYt session, and if it fails to do so, it will be up to the people of the state to eleet a legislature that will do this very thing. , Tell the Editor. If you know of things that are not going as they should be or if you have ideas as to how there might be improvement in existing conditions, social, political or otherwise, tell the editor about it. We do not want to be understood as offering to become a depository for everybody's troubles or anything of that kind, or of having any desire whatever to meddle with matters personal; but we are here to help the people, and It is necessmy for us to thoroughly understand wherein they need help before we can proceed with a great deal of intelligence. I It is a common thing for people to come and taiik with the editor about men and things and then make a request like this: "Don't say anything about this in the paper, or if you do, don't use my name." This injunction is natural; but it is entirely unnecessary, for of all people, the experienced editor is less liable to butt into things that are none of his business, and the average individual is much safer in .talking important matters with an experienced editor than he is with other individuals. The editor of experience necessarily has a better knowledge of the importance and responsibility attaching to any given topic of public or personal interest thun has the individual who has not had experience as an editor. There are a great many people who tell the editor about their troubles, and about matters affecting the good of the community generally. The ediI ?? .. intnvn ?JoH *i? follr tn unph non. pie, and he makes it a rule never to print anything that is calculated to embarrass them. He tries not to embarrass anybody except people who ought to be embarrassed. American Cotton Problem. It is pretty generally appreciated that American cotton is now a very important factor in the present military atfairs of the world, and that one way or another it will have much to do with who comes out best in this world-wide war; but somehow we have a feeling that we of America have nothing like as intelligent a grasp of the situation as they have in Europe, especially in England. . No matter what anybody wants to say about it, cotton is the key to the situation. Has it not been admitted on all hands that if Russia had had plenty of ammunition, the Germans could never have gotten as far as Warsaw ? Is it not clear also that the Germans would never have attempted this trick unless they had had plenty of ammunition? Plenty of ammunition means plenty of cotton. The Germans understood the vital necessity of plenty of ammunition as a prerequisite to success, and they provided themselves in this respect before they embarked upon the great enterprise on which they are now engaged. They have been making ammunition for years. It is quite possible that if the whole truth should come out, it would be shown that the high prices that have been paid for cotton during the past four or five years were due in large measure to the immense quantities of this material that were being taken by the rest of the world, especially Germany, for th*.- manufacture of powder. It is quite certain that except for the increased requirements of the powder manufacturers, added to the ordinary demand of peace times, the price of cotton, in the face of the greatest crop that has ever beeu O.own, would not have been anything like that which has obtained during the past year of destructive and demoralizing war. But let us not forget Just now that in our anxiety and eagerness about the price we are to receive, we might overlook other considerations in connection with our cotton crop that can prove of vast importance. Just as lack and possession of cotton decided the issue between Germany and Russia, it can easily happen that America can find herself in the same predicament. British newspapers and even British statesmen have thrown out the suggestion that it m:iy be desirable for the British government to buy a large portion of the American cotton crop, at least that portion that ordinarily goes to Germany, for "political considerations." In other words to relieve the pressure that the people of the south are bringing upon the nations' administration to buck England in her efforts to restrict our cotton trade in such a manner as to hamper her enemies. Surely it has occurred to most thoughtful and well-informed Americans. that there is a strong probability that America is going to get into this war before it is over with, and that if she does so she is going to need powder, consequently cotton, in hn mense quanuues. musi ui me military experts ol' this country are agreed that if America should get in it will take full two years before she can attain a state of preparation equal to the most ill-prepared of the countries now at war. Then, under conditions like these what would the United States mean by letting England have that portion of the southern cotton crop that would ordinarily go to Germany? If the United States government is wise it will itself go in for buying cotton, buying it big and buying it now. A Woman Editor.?The only woman editor in this state is Miss Juanita Wylie, who edits the Lancaster News. S'he gets out a splendid paper, but this week's edition is specially fine. It is a home coming number and is twentyfour pages of good reading matter. Of course some of this is advertising, in fact one entire sheet is taken up with an "ad," but this tells the people who come back just where to go to get the best merchandise?anyway, an "ad" well written and artistically "set up'* is good reading matter. Another sheet is given to a write-up of the chamber of commerce of the city, with photos of the members, this is also a drawing caid for any town, for a live chamber of commerce can come very near making a town, especially if it is backed by a reliable newspaper. We are proud to have a small part in this paper, for Miss Wylie has a column of the paragraphs taken from the Daily Mail. This paper shows what a woman can do in the newspaper world, and we wish her much success. ?Anderson Daily Mail. Abolish the Fee System.?There is a young lawyer, by the name of J. J. Cudd of this city, who is a candidate for the legislature. Not very much has been said either about, or by him, so far as we have been able to learn, and we know nothing of his qualifications to represent Spartanburg county in the legislature. But we do know that he has displayed more real courage, whether he knows it or not, in his advocacy of abolishing the fee system in county olllces, substituting therefor a salary basis, than any man who has run for office in this county in many years. Whether he has rushed in where angels fear to tread, or is making his campaign with his eyes open and fully aware of the secret opposition that such a policy will stir up, is a question in our mind, since we do not know Mr. Cudd very well and have never heard him discuss the matter. The people of Spartanburg county haven't the slightest idea what their county offices pay. We have never seen or heard of a statement showing the fees collected in any office in the county. This is not good public business?it is not intelligent. The people of Spartanburg county are not prepared, perhaps, to understand just what fights have taken place in the states of the Union over this very issue and they are probably not aware of the significance of Mr. Cudd's argument at this time, but some day the salary basis will be adopted, and the county put on a busi Iirsw IJilMS. IU UU MUtll ct mills v? in ICquire a political revolution and the breaking up of old political lines in the county, but it will come?and it should.?Spartanburg Herald. Coming to His Own.?Anderson friends of Col. William Banks will be pleased to learn of his succession as editor of the Columbia Record. He is doing the best work of his life now. He suits the Held in which he is working and the Held suits him. He is making a good newspa|?er out of the Record and its influence is growing. Col. Banks has many friends In Anderson. and they will always be interested in him and in his success.?Anderson Daily Mail. LOCAL AFPAZR8. ; NEW ADVERTISEMENTS First National Bank, York?Asks if you are keeping a correct account? Points out its advantages and offers to help keep yours straight. ? Liggett & Myers?Will redeem cou- j pons and tags from cigarettes and tobaccos, at Shieder's Drug Store. c Standard Oil Co.?Calls attention to c the fact that meals are never late f when cooked on a Perfection blue flame oil stove. See page four. "Bobs"?A dainty heart of chewing i tnim rlnlicrhf POTlts Spp nn ffn V four. F. F. Dalley Co.?Gives you pointers on "2-in-l" shoe polish. See page four. Sold everywhere. L. R. Williams, Probate Judge?Gives notice that D. Frank Jackson has applied for letters of administration on the estate of W. A. Jackson, deceased. Smoak-Brown Co.?Suggest that before you buy a buggy you come and see 'he Tyson & Jones vehicles they sell. They give satisfaction. York Drug Store?Emphasizes the reliability and dependability of its prescription department and solicits your patronage. First National Bank, Sharon?Tells you that every time you deposit a dollar with it you hit the wolf of poverty. An aim in life. Sam M. Grist?Wants a half bushel of quinces and a peck of grapes. We do not believe that the mayor of this town is a "four-flusher;" but if anybody charges him with being a "dummy hand," it is not ours to attempt denial. There have been no more "notes," but the practice of using the town's revenues to support a private enterprise for private gain, without giving value received, goes merrily on. Tim Pnnulror in authoritatively ad vised that It was in error in stating that the recent death of W. L. Sandlfer was due to epilepsy. The deceased was never subject to this disorder, we are informed; but it is thought that death may have been caused by appoplexy. The people of Sharon and beyond are very much interested in the pro[ posed new road between Sharon and this place. They insist that the road is absolutely necessary for the proper transaction of business, and they arc going to have it if it possible to get it. A true story of the history of the liquor business in this town?how the business was voted out, how illegal tracffle developed in the drug stores, how so-called doctors made money selling prescriptions, and how certain competences were built up out of the tralfic, would make an interesting social and economic chapter and explain how many strange things that now exist ever became possible. From the beet information we can get, nobody ever did vouch for that petition on which the town council called the election by which the name of the town was changed. The petition was referred first from one to another, then taken up without any duly authenticated report and passed. The petition was never legal, any more than numerous other things that are done in this community. With the backing of the National j Guard of North Carolina, Capt W. A. t Fair of Lincolnton, is making a stren- { uous effort to secure the location of , an army post at Charlotte. If there is anything in the proposition to t strengthen ihe present army organ!- j zation, it is going to be necessary to , establish a number of additional posts ( I - ~ '5 ?V,A nnm.cnlont Inoatlnn nf Char. . . lotte with reference to territory and railroad schedules, makes it chances very good. We would not have our readers to think that the action of the mayor and clerk of the town council in using the public resources of the community to support their newspaper interests, hits the endorsement of all the people of the community who may have similar Interests. Amongst the others are many who recognize the dishonesty and incipient corruption involved in such a policy, and who have no sympathy in such procedure, either for their own benefit or the benefit of others. The travel to and from the mountains of western North Carolina is about as heavy this year as usual; but it is a noticeable fact that on an average the people are not staying eo long and they are not spending so much money. Where ordlnariiy visitors remained two or three weeks or a month in one place they are now stopping only three or four days or a week. It is a common thing for automobile parties to be content to run from one hotel to another and to hold their expenses down as nearly as possible to board and gasoline. The gtocerymen, souvenir dealers, jewelers and the like, are complaining that very little money is being spent in their respect- ' ive lines. , The recently published paragraphs 1 about the borrowers of The Enquirer ' has had a certain effect. There have . been a dozen or more reports on the i subject, most of them from subscrlb- 1 ers; but there has been more direct evidence in the sale of extra copies, < principally to negro messengers. These ' messengers would bring in their nick- ! els and ask for copies, and generally ( upon inquiry, say who the papers i were for. The lesson of the circumstance is that the little bits of people who, unwilling to pay for a good thing, 'are nevertheless reluctant to deprive themselves of the enjoyment thereof, were actually conscious of i their smallness. For such as these, there is still some hope. - ( TURKEY CREEK BOTTOMS j mere nas Deen a revival 01 me proposition to drain the Turkey creek bottoms down in Bethesda, Broad River and Bullock's Creek townships, ' and on into Chester county. The matter has been under consideration for several years past, and a large number of people have become very much interested. An act that has passed the legislature providing a means whereby the drainage work may be organized, prosecuted and paid for is just a little doubtful constitutionally in one or two particulars, but still there appears to be plenty of law to accomplish the end desired. Among the parties in the present movement as the report indicates, are Dr. J. H. Saye, Mr. W. R. Carroll, Mr. W. L. Hill, Mr. Johnson Cameron, and numbers of other progressive landowners along the different branches of Turkey creek. The concensus of information obtained from Crowders' creek is to the effect that the drainage of that stream, although not fully completed in accordance with plans, has handsomely paid all the landowners who went into the enterprise. In the old days before Turkey creek filled up as it is now, the Turkey creek 1 bottoms were famous throughout the 1 whole of York county for their re- ' markable fertility and the tremendous ( amount of corn they yielded; but for many years past, most of these hot- c turns have been almost valueless. There t eems to be no reasonable doubt that his proposed drainage enterprise yould be worth many times its cost. BULLOCK'S CREEK CROPS The farmers along the road from Sharon to the river, through the datrsville, Hoodtown and Bullock's ?reek sections have little ground for lomplaint over the present prospect or good cropa. In most cases the cotton crop through that section is as ;ood this season as they have ever tad, and in not a few instances the :otton crop is really better than it has ieen In manv vears. The earlier plant d corn crop Is not so promising as nost of the farmers would like, having >een seriously hurt by dry weather dtting it at the wrong time, but even his, compared with the corn crops that vere considered good ten or fifteen rears ago, the prospect Is quite good. A gentleman who travels over a greater portion of the county at more ?r less frequent intervals, says le believes that, taken as a whole, the Tops of Bullock's Creek township are he best in the county. One of the notable things to be leen in Bullock's Creek just now as one ravels over the township, is the very arge acreage planted and sowed in jeas. Hundreds and hundreds of icres are sowed in this legume that vill be turned under In the early fall o be followed by grain, clover, grass, ?tc., while other acres have been lowed in rows and from these the >eas will be picked and either used >y the growers for planting another ^ear or put on the market for sale to :hose who haven't been forehanded mough to grow the peas for their own lse. "There's a field." said a gentleman :o the writer a few days ago, as we vere passing a field of fifteen or twenty acres, "that I have never seen in inythlng but cotton before this year. There was a good yield of oats cut off t and Mr. at once turned the stubble and sowxl peas, and you see vhat is there. A crop of peas that will nake fine hay if he wants It that way; jut he will most likely turn it under ind sow it down in clover and oats this fall, and in making two crops in i year he has beaten his cotton all to pieces. And here's a field of cotton following crimson clover, you nave seen this field many times before in cotton, but you never saw as good cotton on it as there is right now. Anybody can see by this field alone what even one crop of clover will do n the way of improving land." Throughout Bullock's Creek township there are a number of farmers who have exceptionally good crops oi ioth cotton and corn. With their corn they seemed to have just hit it right t)oth in the planting time, and in the seasons after it was up, and also they suffered little from cut worms or bud worms. Notable among these is that of Mr. R. Li Vinson, who is said to have one of the best all-round crops in the county; but most any Bullock's Creek farmer will tell you mighty puick that he has enough in prospect In the way of food crops to keep him ind his family from want, no matter what the price of cotton may be. THE PRODUCE MARKET There is nothing like the market for chickens, eggs, vegetables and the like there was last year. T.hen It was in easy matter to sell anything of that kind and at a fair price; but now it s surprising that a small quantity of either of the commodities will knock my of the markets to pieces, even the markets of the larger towns. The reporter gathered this informaion from Mr. Martin Mitchell, who ives near Sandy Flat school house, about four miles northwest of this lown, and who has probably handled more chickens and eggs during the oast few years than any other one man in the county. When Mr. Mltchjll first went into the business, he operated largely on foot, for a year or more he used a wagon and during practically all of the present year he las been doing his work with a Ford. By the use of the Ford, Mr. Mitchell Inds no trouble whatever in covering i large part of the county in a day. Be can run about through his own leighhorhood for many miles in every direction, and dash across the country ;hrough this place to Rock Hill, or over toward Spartanburg or to Gas:onia or to Charlotte, he does not care much where, provided he has a pretty ?ood quantity of chickens, eggs, etc., and thinks he has a fair show at a market. "It does not take but very few :hickens and eggs to supply this place," Mr. Mitchell said to the reporter last Saturday night, while he was making some purchase in a local Iry goods store. "Generally you have to peddle a little bunch of stuff around pretty promiscuously, and if you have is many as a dozen chickens to dispose of, you are going to find a big job to do it. Gastonia also is a poor market; but Rock Hill is a little better. It is hard to do anything in Spartanburg, and although I have never tried Chester, I guess Chester is about like the rest of them. The watering places are dull, too. I w "it over to Glenn Springs not long ?*0, and there was very little doing?could not sell them anything except a few hens." Asked about the supply of chickens In the country, Mr. Mitchell said it am* auite Dlentiful as compared with the demand. He has no difficulty In finding: all the chickens and eggs ho wants: but the trouble Is to dispose of the supplies so easily found. He is not disposed to buy up supplies and hold them: but prefers to buy in the morning and sell out right away if he can. He says the market is naturally dull; but thinks this is in part due to the fact that since the people generally are not so busy, they are taking chickens and eggs to town, but when the people go to work again, the competition will be less sharp. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Nearly every house In the Cannon mill village is now occupied. It is understood that several families have moved to the mill only recently. ? The colored baseball team defeated a team from Rock Hill on the local legroes' diamond Thursday afternoon. The score was 3 to 7. ? Work on the paving of the sidewalk between the square and the Southern depot has been suspended, owing to the shortage in the supply of cement. ? Mr. John S. James of the firm of James Bros., arrived last week with i carload of fine mules and many of them have already been sold or exchanged. ? That farmers are getting ready for cotton picking is evidenced by the fact that during the past few days many cotton baskets have been soid by local dealers. ? An lee rream suuDer was held at :he NVely mill Saturday evening for :he benefit of the baseball team. There was a large number of young people present and about five gallons of :ream were sold. ? The town council has passed an irdinance prohibiting the leaving open >f "cut outs" on automobiles passing Main street. Several gentlemen were litting in front of the hotel tho other fight when a well known citizen drove ilong in his car at a rapid rate. The ut out on his machine was open. 'Thought the town had passed an orLnance prohibiting the use of the cut iut on Main street," remarked a genleman, and a second replied, "Well, It depends mostly on whose automobile It Is, you know/' . ? There is a rumor In circulation to the effect that tlio "town attorney" denies that he Is responsible for the compilation of that license tax ordinance. As to whether this is true, we are not sure. We have one witness; but there may have been some mistake. However, if the town attorney did not do It, we think more of him for enteriner the denial, and a verv emphatic one. We certainly would not ! like to rest under the charge of taxing ] a stove repairer as much as a real estate agent and half as much as a lawyer or doctor. The thing is too unspeakably unfair and unjust, and then again we would not think of be- ' ing responsible for such discrimination | against honest labor in behalf of peo- l pie who really add nothing to the ' wealth of the community. But if the j "town attorney" did not do this, who did do it, and what on earth is the ] town attorney for anyway? ? Very pretty In Its simplicity was i the wedding ceremony in the Church of the Good Shepherd last evening, J when Miss Nancy Witherspoon be- ( came the bride of Mr. Daniel Heyward, i the Rev. Thomas Tracy Walsh offlci- J ating. Owing to a death in the family of the bride the wedding was not carried out in the elaborate detail that < had originally been planned, and the number of friends and acquaintances who were in attendance was consider- i ably fewer than it otherwise would have been. Shortly after 8.30 o'clock, the bridal party proceeded up the church aisle, the ushers, Messrs. A. T. Hart, J. P. McMurray, Howard White and Walter Barron, being followed by the bridesmaids. Misses Ramouth Allen and Annie Stevens. Next entered William Heyward and Tom Gilland who preceded Misses Gerald Lowry 1 and Pauline Blandlng. Messrs. C. E. Spencer, Jr., and E. B. Lowry next en- 1 tered the church and immediately behind them followed Master Tscharner 1 DeGraffenreid and little Miss Louise WolfTe, the ribbon bearers. Then came the dame of honor, Mrs. John M. 1 Hemphill of Chester, sister of the bride, who was followed toward the chancel by Miss Julia Wltherspoon, also a sister of the bride. The bride 1 then entered on the arm of her father and the wedding party was completed i with the entrance of the groom, accompanied by his best man, Mr. Frank Sims. In the short and impres| sive ceremony of the Episcopal church, the rector pronounced the young ' couple man and wife. Mra Heyward is the daughter of Mr. and Mra Robt. 1 Wltherspoon of this place, and is well 1 known in social circles. The groom is J a native of Rion, Fairfield county and is a nephew of ex-Governor Heyward. Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. [ and Mrs. Heyward left for Gastonia from which place they go to the mountains of western North Carolina. CAUSE OF FRICTION It is a notorious /'act, fully appreciated, not only within the corporate limits of this town; but throughout the county, and wherever the town is known, that there is more continuous turmoil and strife among the people here than is to be found in any town of half its size, exactly its size or twice its size, in this or any adjoining state. This situation is frequently remarked by outsiders and no less frequently remembered by our own people, and although it is common to hear men inquire what the trouble is, sometimes honestly and sometimes hypocritically, and it is not a rare thing to hear a correct and truthful statement of the real facts, things go on from bad to worse with but little show of improvement. And as much as we would like to see the situation straightened out on a basis of right, the truth of the matter is that there is very little hope now or hereafter In proportion to size, there are as many generous, kind hearted, right thinking, fair minded people to be found in this town as are to be found in any town in the state. That fact, 1 wo believe, is generally admitted; but notwithstanding the existence of this , fact the turmoil and strife continues without abatement and there are few i in the town who seem to have any hope for a permanent adjustment. The greatest drawback to the prosperity of the town, generally speaking, has been the common disposition to disregard the ordinary rules of fair conduct as between man and man, | and insist upon special privilege and the like. There are now, as there have ! always been, men and womer who pitch their conduct, business, nocial, religious and otherwise, along lires of due consideration of the rights of others with due regard to all estab lished fundamentals. There are others who do not seem to think that fairness and justice are to be considered?that , they have a right to do what they can do, and all opposition that is based upon a defense of rights is really only that much contrariness. Sometimes friction is engendered honestly through ignorance, and sometimes it is engendered through open eyed disregard of the fundamentals. There are people who* insist that cerl tain other people are to be considered with one rule, while others must be dealt with by still another rule, and that they themselves are subject to no rule whatever. The idea that every ! individual has or should have the same right and privileges of every other individual, is denied by many, and as . most individuals believe that they are entitled to the same rights of all other i individuals, they are not generally willing to pull smoothly when those rights are denied. It is very often , more or less easy for one man to usurp or trample on the rights of another. Men will frequently submit to wrong i without offering resistance, either legal ; ! or political; but there are few men who will thus submit without harbor! ing feeling and that feeling never fails ] to continue a disturbing element. If the writer were of a mind to he could All this and other columns with i instances where the people of the town , have been unfairly and illegally imposed upon. In doing this, he would not conllne himself merely to matters j of opinion; but would give facts, indisputable facts, and every case he would . recite would leave a strong impression 1 of injustice, that is necessarily a I source of friction. 1 For instance, a great many people remember how, after "the capital stock had been subscribed for the ] Lockmore cotton mill, and before the I actual organization of the enterprise, there was started and carried through < a movement to have the town vote ] municipal tax exemption for all new i manufacturing enterprises with a weekly pay roll of $60 or something , to that effect. The ostensible purpose was to encourage the establishment of new manufacturies. On its face the thing sounded all right, maybe; but when people considered that virtually ' all of the stock in this concern had ' already been subscribed by local stockholders, they could not help seeing what appeared to them the sham < of the whole thing. The clear elTect of it was to give the stockholders of the enterprise a subsidy at the expense of those who were not stockholders, and the proposition did no. "ven have the semblance of a two-sided bargain. It will be remembered that some years back when the old Sutro mill failed, it owned a lighting plant ihat had not been a paying proposition. The proprietor of the plant had previously asked for a franchise, but even that had been denied. Cerlain individuals who were interested in the estate of the Sutro mill, bought the lighting plant for a nominal sum.- It was of very little account and could not be operated at a profit. About that time it appeared desirable for the t town to trade with the Catawba Pow- di r company for light and power. It b: was necessary to put up an entirely new plant The old Sutro plant was nl without value. Its poles were inade- vi quate and its twisted wires were l> worthless. Yet all this old junk was sold to the town, which could not use It and the sellers put the proceeds yl In their pockets. Very few people out- a, side of those directly concerned ever knew about the transaction. These are only two instances; but ?I is has been stated It would be easy ?' lo cite many other cases In point fully ** is striking; but it is hardly worth while. This license tax law recently to promulgated furnishes illustration to Lhut is in line and fresh. Nobody de- n< [lies the desirability of a license tax. It has been shown that the law re- j, quires that this license tax be gradu- rj ated on a basis of gross Income or n( capital invested. There is no authority for graduation along any other basis. There is no question of the fact that such graduation will not only be te lawful, Just and proper; but it will be Jt fully adequate. Yet with the old time Injustice and perversity the municipal si authorities have foisted upon the peo- o pie an arbitrary schedule that has not w the slightest semblance of right, rea- fc son or justice as between the iitue fellows and the big fellows. vj It Is common to hear men raise the g, cry to let's stop all this contrariness fC and pull together. This sounds good h and every right thinking indl\ddual in the town would like to see the adop- .. tion of such a schedule. But surely nobody expects any really effective pulling together except in accordance rl with Just and equitable law that rec- 1 ognize the old, time-honored principles of "equal rights to all and special ei privileges to none." ? Surely there are none in the town ti so foolish as to think that a tax sched- V ule like this will promote good will or pulling together, now or in the future. n> oi # il: ABOUT PEOPLE ,c Miss Betty Hemphill of Chester, is cl visiting friends here. SI Mr. R. B. Beach was a visitor in ** Chester this week. 0 Mr. James Robinson of Lancaster, is visiting relatives here. 01 Mr. Carl Oaulden joined the Wlnns- ? boro baseball team last week. w Mr. R. D. Dorsett was a visitor in g< King's Mountain last week. Miss Dulin of Bethel, is visiting tho A Misses Arrow cod at Sharon. w Mr. Joseph Matthews of Charleston, is visiting relatives at Clover. Miss Rose M. Lindsay is spending Borne time with friends in Clover. g Miss Loula Allein of this place, is visiting friends at Mulllns, S. C. fi Master James Wylle is visiting his n, uncle, Mr. J. T. Wylie, in Lancaster. a Miss Annie Clinton of Eastvlew, is P visiting Miss Hester Jackson in Clover, g Mrs. J. A. Reedy of Charlottesville, " Va., is visiting relatives in this place. *{ Miss Leila Fowler of Woodruff, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fow- _ ler. J Miss Leona Moore of Rock Hill, is J the guest of Miss Sarah Meek Starr, here. J Mr. B. Lev;/ left Saturday for a visit ^ to relatives in New York and Balti- b more. Mr. John McDow of Charleston, vis- a ited friends and relatives here this q week. le Mr. and Mra J. E. Johnson of this S place, are spending several days in g Lancaster. b< Mrs. W. L. Law, who has been visiting here, has returned to her home in Rock Hill. t< Mra Arthur Suggs of Spencer, N. ?1 C., is visiting relatives and friends on f' R. F. D. No. 6. * Mrs. O. L Jackson and Miss Edith ? Jackson of Clover, visited friends in n rinalAniA last TITOnlr | ^ vjooiuuia luoi rr wn> ^ Mr. Ebenezer Gettys of Tirzah, has c been re-elected principal of the Blairs- h ville school. H Mrs. W. R. McKellar of Boaxdman, B N. C., is visiting Rev. Jno. A. McMur- S ray, at Guthriesvllle. Mr. T. Grover Hope and family of w Rock Hill, are visiting relatives and v friends in this section. A Miss Maude Sandifer has returned 11 to her home here, after a visit to her * brother in Augusta, Ga. ? Mrs. Boyd Brandon of Clemson Col- w lege, visited her aunt, Mrs. J. M. Fer- f, son here this week. h Miss Mayme Paysinger of Newber- A ry, is visiting Miss Ella Lee Byars at t< Sharon. al Misses Ella and Kate Cody left yesterday to spend seteral weeks at Ban- B ner Elk, N. C. g Miss Jane Pursley is critically ill at t< the home of Mr. Sam Pursley on d Clover No. 4. A Mr. W. W. Parish of King's Moun- 5 tain, N. C., visited Mr. W. M. Parish p on No. 1, last week. Y Master Frank McElwee is spending p some time with his uncle, Mr. Quay n McElwee in Montgomery, Ala.' b; Misses Kathleen and Nellie McLoud P of Lincolnton, N. C., are the guests of N Mrs. W. M. McLoud. J) Mrs. L. H. Good and Miss Mary Bell Good of Sharon, are visiting relatives in Kershaw. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Whiteside of Blacksburg, are visiting Mr. R. L. Sherer in Sharon. C The condition of Mr. H. H. Brown of the Cannon mill, who is ill with t>< pellagra, is unimproved. f? Miss Belle McCaw of New Orleans, *>La., is spending a few days with her aunt, Mrs. J. K. Alston, here. Mr. J. M. Nichols has returned to S his home here after spending several weeks in Brevard, N. C. te Dr. J. D. McDowell and son, James, cl of this place, are spending several cf days at Montreat, N. C. le Mr. Frank Feemster of Winston- w Salem, N. C., is spending a few days S( with relatives in this section. w Miss Bessie and Master Brown B Wylie are visiting relatives in McConnellsville and Guthriesvllle. hi Miss Bessie Pegram has returned U to her home here after spending sev- M eral weeks at Pawley's Island. O Mr. and Mrs. Avery Lowry of Un- * Ion, are visiting the family of Mr. J. E. Lowry in this place. j-* Mrs. Raymond Carroll, who has been seriously ill for some time, is recuperating nicely. G Rev. E. B. Hunter returned to Sharon last week after a stay of several in weeks in Alabama. T Mr. J. S. James of Knoxville, Tenn., a Is spending several days with his H brother, Mr. H. B. James, here. ** ?" TT. dl 1Y1 ia.1 DC1IC r CC1IIOICI XJM. uunuvn o *| Creek, is visiting the family of Mr. _ J. T. Feemstei* on R. F. D. No. 5. Mr. and Mrs. John Barron and Miss cc Annis Barron of Rock Hill, are visiting Mrs. E. B. Hunter in Sharon. ,r Miss Mabel Simpson returned to her home in Spartanburg Saturday, after p( spending several days with friends ln here. J? Misses Kate and Agnes Hunter and . Master John Hart, Jr., are visiting , relatives and friends in Lincolnton, . S. C. ti Misses Sallie Craig and Bessie San- th lifer have returned to their home pi here after spending two weeks in Shelby, N. C. Misses Loretta and Jennie Steadman \ Culp spent last Thursday and Friday Y( In Hickory Grove, the guests of Mrs. John S. Wilkerson. Miss Kate Johnson has returned to Qf her home at Pineville, N. C., after Qf visiting Miss Eloise Steele in the Oak Ci Ridge section. b< Miss Jessie May Hilton has return- er ?d to her home in Kershaw, after 3, spending several days with Mrs. L. H. Sood in Sharon. Mr. Blakely Plexico returned from 3, Charlotte Friday, where he entered his th well known horse, "Superman," in the th races held there. "Superman" won se third place in the races which he en- ja tered. th Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McMurray of w< Chattanooga, Tenn., have been visiting lb :heir nephew, Rev. Jno. A. McMurray, N it Guthriesville. hi Miss Lula Moors Logan, who has n* aeon undergoing treatment in the oI Fennell infirmary, Rock Hill, has re- D :urned to her home here. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Witherspoon re- M :urned to their home here last Satur- R< ty, after spending ten days at Shel/, N. C. Mrs. Iva Cummings and Miss Ante l.uu Dickson of Columbia, are siting the family of Mr. John C. ickson on R. F. D. No. 1. Miss Isabella Arrowood has return1 to her home at Sharon, after a sit to the Panama-Pacific exposition : San Francisco. Mrs. W. N. Craig of Lancaster, is tending several weeks wKh her parits, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Plaxco, on . K. D. No. 1. Miss Cora Davidson has returned > her home in (Jastonia, after a visit . In tkiu on/< U /iPn.l. > & ciuLi v co 111 11110 fiacc auu iuvvvtisllsville. Messrs. D. C. Clark, S. E. Lowry, 10. 3. Jones and B. R. T. Bowen, carera on routes Nos. 1, 3, 5 and 7, aru iw enjoying their annual vacations. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Wingett of hariotie, N. C., are visiting the latr's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. ickson at Guthrlesyille. Deputy Quinn returned from Mlsssippi Saturday night with W. E. aruner, a young white man who is anted in Rock Hill on the charge of irgery. Mra. Oreen Simrlll, who has been siting Mrs. N. J. N. Bowen here, has >ne to Oastonia for a short visit be>re returning to her home in Rock ill. Mrs. B. N. Moore and Misses Lesse Wltherapoon and Maggie Gist, have turned to their homes here after lending several weeks in Montreat, . C. Mr. Bamford Garrison, who has been iguged in packing fruit in south eorgia for several weeks past, reirned to his home near Philadelphia esterday. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Isom of Gaffey and Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Lemondo t Spartanburg, are visiting the famy of Mr. W. C. Thompson on Bul>ck'a Creek R. F. D. No. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Brandt and hildren of Athens, Ga., arrived at haron last week on a visit to the ^ imily of Mr. John L, Rainey and ther relativea wH Miss Agnes McCarter. the 10-yearIH Hancrhtor nf Mr Han A Mcrf^aHar f Bethany, had the misfortune to reak her right arm last Thursday, hen she fell from a mule. She Is etting along nicely. Associate Reformed Presbyterian, ugust 4: Dr. Oliver Johnson was lth Rev. W. H. Stevenson in a meetig at Neely's Creek, S. C., embracing ist Sabbath. Miss Mary Stevenson cpects to leave this week on a visit > Rev. W. H. Stevenson at Lesslle, , C. Gastonia Gastonlan: A party of irmers from the Crowder's Creek eighborhood, composed of Messrs. J. ., W. M., and W. H. Crawford, S. L. arham, R. L., B. B. and T. M. Feruson and R. A. Jackson passed trough the city this morning In au>s bound for Catawba county to see te farm of Mr. Shuford. Augustus Cain of 8haron, and James 7. Draflln of Harmony, left this week >r Clemson college, where they go to ike a short agricultural course, both te young men having won free zholarshlps in connection with their ork as members of the York County toys' Corn club. Newberry Observer, August t: Mr. nd Mrs. G. B. Summer and Adrla and enle Summer and Miss Ida Bptlng . ift early Wednesday morning in Mr. 1 ummer's Ford car for York county, olng by way of Whltmlre. They will a gone about two weeks and will ream by way of Hendersonvllle. The following were among the out of >wn guests who attended the Witherpoon-Heyward wedding here last yenlng: Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heyward; lisses Mary, Bettie and L<yle Heyard of Rion; Miss Frances Beckham, lock Hill; Miss Dorothy Meanee, lidgeway; Mr. Frank Sims, Misses Una Robertson and Catherine Bryan, olumbla, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hempill and Mr. Paul and Miss Botty [emphlll, Chestor; Miss Pauline Handing, Sumter and Miso Esther prings, Charlotte. Senator J. ?1 Be&mguard of Clover, . ho was hore Saturday, said the conention of the Junior Order United merlc&n Mechanics, which was held i Columbia last week, and which he ttended, was one of the best meetings f the body he had ever known. It sed to be that the annual convention ras held in April at a time when the irmers could not afford to leave ome. The date has been changed to ugust now and the increase In atindance and Interest is quite notlceble. Gastonia Gazette, August 6: Miss eulah Matthews of Clover, and her uest. Miss Marie Smith of Charles>n, were visitors in Gastonia yesteray. Mesdames O. C. O'Farrell and . R. Rudlclll of King's Mountain, ere In town yesterday en route to lover, to visit Mrs. J. A. Page. Miss earl Gallant Is visiting friends in ? orkville, Bullock's Creek and other olnts In York county. Clover was 'presented at Wednesday's game here y Messrs. W. B. u ;amguard, J. A. age. W. P. Smith. M. L. Smith, M. L. ell, Emmet Love, Hugh and Tom ickson, Thad Clinton, Dr. Cook, Mesames M. L. and W P. Smith and J. 7. Campbell and M ss Bessie Adams. LOCAL LAC0NIC8 lover Defeated Neely Mill. Clover defeated the Neely mill baseU1 team in a good game on the timer's grounds Saturday afternoon y a score of 5 to 1. The batteries ere: Neely mill?Lockridge and ook; Clover, M. Williams and Parish. t. Paul Picnic. Quite a large number of people atmded the picnic at St. Paul Methodist lurch last Saturday. The crowd ime early in the morning and did not ave until late in the evening. There as plenty of dinner and everybody ?emed to enjoy toe day to the fullest ctent. thany Blanked Union. The strong Bethany baseball team 1d little trouble. in defeating the nion team in a game at St. Paul ethodist church Saturday afternoon, nly one hit was secured by the Union tarn off Grayson, while the Bethany itters hit the ball all over the lot. atteriee: Bethany, Grayson and erguson; Union, Lawrence and Lynn; mplre, Davis. ood Meeting Closed. The fevtval meeting which has been i progress at Olivet church near irzah for several days past, came to close Sunday night and Rev. W. I. erbert, who did the preaching, return1 to his home in Spartanburg yeeterly. There were a number of addions to the church as a result of the eeting and each of Rev. Mr. Herd's sermons were heard by a large >ngregation. ispected the Gang. A. S. Johnston, secretary of the >ard of charities and corrections, who spected the York county chaingang company with Supervisor Boyd riday morning, expressed himself as ting very well pleased with the quarrs. While the stockade is not as ean and up-to-date as it could be, le secretary was willing to admit at he had seen worse, ig Day at Blackaburg. Saturday was a big day at Blackslrg and there were a large number ' people in the little town across the ork county line. The picnic was in ie nature of a good roads rally and veval good speakers told of the value ' good roads. The principal speaker ' the day was Commissioner of Agrtilture E. J. Watson. Quite a num;r of York county people were presit. uccessful Meeting Closed. Whar is said to have been one of the ost successful meetings ever held at ethany, came to a close Sunday night, e congregation present being about e freest that attended any olf the rvices. During the meeting which sted six days, 72 persons united enMelves with Bethany church. There ere 45 baptisms Sunday afternoon, ev. James H. Pressley of Statesville, . C.. who did the preaching, proved mself a minister of more than ordliry ability and won the admiration ail who heard him. eath of Rock Hill Lady. Following an illness of several days, rs. W. L. Roach died at her home In ock Hill Saturday evening and was