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iy~'*" "' "* ? ?- < .' r ' . - SSBSSBB i i i i_J 1 ' ' 111 11 ' ^ ISSUED 8KMI-WEEHLT. L. M. GRISTS SONS, pubswhcrs.} % Jfamilg Dercspagei;: 4or th^Jromotion of th< political, Social, ^grieultura! and Commercial Interests oj (h< gjeopt{. J TER",^f0c^PTEiIRTiNc? ANCe ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., FRIDAY, JUSTE 2Q, 1919. ~ | -MEANING OF BOLSHEVISM Senate Judiciary Committee Announces Conclusions. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHAOS Complete Investigation by Sworn Representatives of the American People, Discloses the Extent of the Cataclasm Into Which the World Reformers Would Throw the Existing p System. New York Times, Sunday. The senate judiciary committee will submit this week its report on German propaganda and Bolshevism. The report has been compiled after an ininvestigation extending over more than eight months and it is the first official . United States government report on Bolshevism. That part which deals with German propaganda is a resume of the various activities directed by Boy-Ed, von p Papen, and other plotters. The report on Bolshevism deals with the subject from a new angle. After telling what Bolshevism, is it applies the system, theoretically, to the United States and points out what would happen if the American government were replaced t>>* one patterned after the "red terror" of Russia. In compiling the report Mayor E. Ix>wry Humes, counsel for the committee, had at his disposal the diplomatic and other information on Russian conditions in the archives of the American and British governments. Program of Bolshevism. "The salient features which constitute the program of Bolshevism as it exists today in Russia and is presented to the rest of the world as a panacea for all ills may be summarized as follows: (1.) The repudiation of democracy and the. establishment of a dictation. (2.) The confiscation of all land and the improvements thereof. (3.) The confiscation of all forests cacnn rppu ami iiauuai ?vw%.. (4.) The confiscation of all live stock and all agricultural implements. (5.) The confiscation of all hanks and banking institutions and the establishment of a state monopoly of the banking business. (6.) The confiscation of all factories, mills, mines, and industrial institutions and the delivery of the control and operation thereof to the employes therein. (7.) The confiscation i f all churches and all church property, real and personal. (8.) The confiscation of all newspapers and periodicals and all mechanical facilities and machinery used in the publication thereof. (9.) The seizure and confiscation of all public meeting places and assembly halls. (10.) The confiscation of all transportation and communication systems. (11.) The confiscation of the entire estate of all decedents. (12.) The monopolizing by the state of all advertisements of every nature, whether newspapers, periodicals, handbills, or programs. (13.) The repudiation of all debts against the government, and all obligations due the non-Bolshevist elements of the population. (14.) The establishment of universal compulsory milita y service regardless of religious scruples and conscientious objections. (15.) The establishment of universal compulsory labor. (16.) The abolition of the Sunday school and all other schools and institutions that teach religion. (17.) The absolute separation of churches and schools. (18.) The establishment, through marriage and divorce laws, of a method for the legalization of prostitution, when the same is engaged in by consent of the parties. (19.) The refusal to recognize the existence of God in its governmental * and judicial proceedings. (20.) The conferring of the rights of citizenship on aliens without regard to length of residence or intelligence. (21.) The arming of all so-called ^ "toilers." and the disarming of all persons that had succeeded in acquiring property. (22.) The discrimination in favor of residents of cities and against residents of the rural districts through giving residents of cities five times as much voting power as it accorded to residents of rural districts in such elections as are permitted. (23.) The disfranchisement of all persons employing any other person in connection with their business . (24.) The disfranchisement of all persons receiving rent, interest, or dividends. (25.) The disfranchisement of all merchants, traders, and commercial o agents. (26.) The disfranchisement of all priests, clergymen, or employes of churches and religious bodies. (27.) The denial of the existence of any inalienable rights in the individual citizen. (28.) The establishment of a judicial system exercising autocratic power, convicting persons and imposing penalties in their absence, and without opportunity to be heard, and even adopting the death penalty for numerous crimes and misdemeanors. (29.) The inauguration of a refrn of fear, terrorism, and violence. What it Would Mean. "With a view, therefore, of concretely illustrating just what this new social order would accomplish if transplanted into the political, educational, indus trial, and religious life of the United States, attention is invited to the following unavoidable consequences: (1.) The application of force and violence, the shedding of Mood and the destruction of life and property, the common incidents of all revolutions, and all this to destroy a democratic form of government under which the majority can secure just the kind of government that it desires. The advoency of revolutionary methods is an admission, therefore, that minority rather than majority rule is the goal sought to he attained. To make possible the control of the minority as the dictators of the majority, the disfranchisement of millions of substantial, patriotic citizens who would fall in the so-called bourgeois or capitalistic class. This would deprive of the right to participate in affairs. of government (a) Millions of farmers, merchants, and manufacturers, both large and small, employing persons in the conduct of their business, and all professional and business men utilizing the services of a clerk, bookkeeper, or stenographer. (b). All persons receiving interest on borrowed money or bonds, rent from real estate or personal property.! and dividends from stock of any kind. (c). All traders, merchants, and dealers, even though they do not employ another person in' the conduct oi J their business. (d). Ail preachers, priests, janitors, and employes of all churches and n ligious bodies. It is apparent with the millions of persons falling: into these several classes, disfranchised and deprived of all right to participate in the affairs of government, accompanied of all immediate enfranchisement of all aliens who do not fall within these prohibited classes, and the opening of the doors of all prisons and penitentiaries, and domination of the criminal and most undesirable alien elements of the country would be a comparatively easy matter. To simplify the question of this control, however, the substantial rural portion of the population would be further suppressed and restricted, and under the revolutionary formula the voting power of the cities would be five times as great as that of the rural communities, the ratio of the representation in cities being 1 to every 25,000 of the population, while that of the rural districts would be only 1 to every 125,000 of the population. In the United States the rural population under the 1910 census was considerably in excess of the urban. We must also remember that the application of the formula would include the disarming of" all oisfranehised classes and the arming to the teeth of these criminal and alien ele menia. (3.) It would result in the confiscation of the government thus constituted of the land of the United States including 6,361,502 farms, of which 62.1 per cent, or 3,948,772 farms, arc owned in fee by the farmers who ^cultivate them and represent the labor and toil of a lifetime. On the farms of the United States there are improvements machinery, and live stock to the value of $10,991,449,090, [census of 1910,] all of which would he confiscated with the land. The confiscation program would include the more than 275,000 manufacturing establishments, including the $22,790,980 000 of Invested capital much of which is owned by the small investor whose livelihood depends upon the success of the respective enterprises. The confiscation would also include 203,432 church edifices. Forests aggregating 555,000,000 acres would be seized by the government and an annual product of $1,375,000,000 would come under the control of the dictatorship. Dwellings to the number of 17,805,845, of which 9,093,675 are owned in fee, with 5,984,249 entirely free from debt, would be confiscated and the owners dispos sessed at the pleasure of the government. (4.) Although clamoring loudly for a free and unrestricted press the revolutionary program would require the seizure and confiscation of the 22,896 newspapers and periodicals in the United States, together with all mechanical equipment necessary for their publication, and a control and ownership of the public press by the government. (5.) Complete control of all banking institutions and their assets is an essential part of the revolutionary program, and the 31,492 banks in t) United States would be taken over by the government and the savings of millions, including 11,397,553 depositors drawing interest on accounts in savings banks, and consequently belonging to the so-called bourgeois or capitalistic class, jeopardied. (6.) One of the most appalling and far-reaching consequences of an application of Bolshevism in the United males wmnu IW iouhu m me tvimscation of liciuidation of its life insurance companies. There is 20 per cent more life insurance in force in this county than in all the rest yf the world, and nine-tenths of it is mutual insurance. Almost 50,000,000 life insurance policies, representing: nearly $30,000,000,000 of insurance, the substantial protection of the women and child) en of the nation, would he rendered valueless. (7.) The atheism that permeates the whole Russian dictatorship is clearly reflected in the activities of their revolutionary confreres in the United States, and in their publications they have denounced our religion and our Cod as "lies." This grives added significance to the revolutionary attitude toward the Christian church and the Christian religion. The prohibition of religious schools and the teachings or studying of religion, except in private would necessitate the abolition of 194.759 Sunday schools in the United States and a great number of seminaries, colleges, and universities; 19,935,890 Sunday school scholars would be deprived and prevented from enjoying the institution that has became an important part of their lives and is one of the great moral influences of the nation. Catholic schools, colleges, and seminaries to the number of <1.0SI would be suppressed. Church property of the value of $1,676,600,583 would be confiscated and 41,936,854 (census of 1916) members of 237,487 church organizations would be subjected to the domination of an atheist dictatorship. "Notwithstanding the fact that every champion and defender of Bolshevism that testified before your committee unequivocally admitted that the Bolshevist formula was not adaptable to economic and social life of the United States, they had their co-evangelists persist in their appeal to the passion of the people in an attempt to provoke discontent a id hatred. In co-opera tion with the revolutionary elements, destruction of existing social and governmental institutions by violent methods is being promoted. They must, therefore, he condemned as the mere champions of discontent and disorder, offering no practical and acceptable ideal, as they profess to have, with which to soften and appease the wrath Hint they are undertaking to arouse. t-?" In the forty-eight states of the I'nion there are 2.9S9 counties. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. 1 i How David Lamar Worked Coup for Fortune. Richard Spillane in Philadelphia Pub- 1 lie Ledger. No tears will be shed in downtown New York over the affirmation by the 1 I'nited States circuit court T>f appeals of the conviction of David Lamar, better known as "The Wolf of Wall ' Street." * He has a cunning that is wonderful and a skill in some matters that 1 is uncanny. At times he has used 1 men of the highest probity as pawns in the promotion of his schemes. One ' illustration will suffice to show the ' man's adroitness. 1 There was a coal strike 15 or 20 ' years ago which was fought with extreme bitterness. The coal people ? would not recognize the union lead- ' ers, and the union leaders had their forces so well organized that produc- ' tion was paralyzed. The stock market was affected seriously. 1 One day John Mitchell the union l leader, was called to the telephone in I tKe Hoffman house. After some preliminary precaution, the speaker said: < "I am Mr. Morgan, I wish you < would come to my house in Madison < Avenue tonight at 8:30. I shall have i several men there with whom you ' now are at war. If you desire bring I several of your associates, not more < than three or four. Let us see if dis passionate exchange of views can not t bring some settlement to this sense| less quarrel." Mr. Mitchell said he would be i pleased to accept. s Later Mr. Morgan was called to the > telephone and this is the message he : received: * "This is Mr. Mitchell of the coal ' miners' union. I believe if you will use your good officers to bring about a ' meeting of myself and my associates and of the gentlemen representing the 1 leading coal interests a way may be 1 'Guild to settle the strike." I promise > nothing except our willingness to dis- < cuss this serious trouble man fashion and without prejudice. If you say so, my associates and I will be at your Madison Avenue home at 8.30 to- ( night." "Very well; be there," replied Mr. Morgan. a That evening three or four of Mr. f Mitchell's associates rang the bell of ( Mr. Morgan's house between 8:15 and , S:30 and were admitted to the big re- , ception room, where some presidents j of great coal railroads and some big 0 coal operators had assembled. A de- f lighttul dinner was served and there j were wine and cigars after which the c gentlemen began to talk. They were t not so bitter or unwilling to make t concession while they sat in friendly c companionship, and a little after midnight they came practically *o agreeinent. t Then, Mr. Morgan, in asking all j present to be at his office at 10*30 in j the morning to ratify in writing the c agreement, said he wanted to expi ess c his high regard for Mr. Mitchell and r let all know it' was due to his sug- 0 gestion that this statement had been t made possible through bringing the x conflicting parties together at his 0 homo. j Mr. Mitchell protested that the cred- c it was not due to him, but to Mr. Morgan from whom the suggestion came. .1. P. knitted his brows in surprise. s Then he said.'"Huh," and let it go at f that. s While the conference was on a man t stood in the shadow in Thirty-sixth t street watching the Morgan house. t When the party came out he was close . by while they were shaking hands and j bidding each other good-bye, and say- r ing they'd see each other again at , 10:30 in Morgan's office. I The man who had been watching j hurried to a telephone office and did some calling to London, where the j stock market opens hours before it ( does in New York. , In the morning there were mysteri- , ous rumors that the coal strike was t settled in a. secret conference. The t afternoon before, just before closing, , there had been heavy buying of coal , shares. There was heavy buying also t at the 0|>ening this particular morn- , ing. I At 10:30 a. m. there was a wild ( whooping in Broad street. John Mitchell and party and the coal railroad . men had got together. I Then the market boiled. In a shop t in New street a man watched the , ticker and gloated. Thousands and tens of thousands were coming into t his possession every few minutes t through the rolling tape. , There were persons in Wall street t who considered it queer that some one . had anticipated the coal settlement | and "cleaned up." . They started an investigation for | Mr. Morgan's information. j "It was the Wolf," they reported to t the great banker. Then and not till then did Mr. Mor gan begin to understand how Mitchell thought Morgan suggested the conference and Morgan thought Mitchell proposed it. j Lunar always worked alone. That , perhaps, is one explanation of how he j got his name of the Wolf, the lone wolf. He made few friends. He , gambled heavily and lived extravagantly. He played no favorites. When ( Von Kintelen came here with a big , brilury fiiinl to promote Herman pro- ( pagamla and prevent munitions from ( being shipiKd. Lamar was one of the first to grab him. What Lamar did to that fool Herman's bank account ( was a wonder. Von kintelen went to jail. Lamar , after using every legal device to keep , out, is going there also. , TRUTH ABOUT FRANK CASE. , District Attorney Makes Sensational Declaration Five Years Afterwards, i No public utterance in Cleorgla in ' recent years has created such wide comment as the speech of Hon. Hooper Alexander, United States district attorney which he delivered at a mass meeting in Atlanta Monday night to protest against the Polish massacres of the Jews. Atlanta newspapers, for < various and sundry reasons, hut large- * l.v because it is a "sore spot," stayed off the subject, but the eastern press took it up as a matter of real news, I which it was, and gave it front page * position. Atlanta folk who were not J at the meeting are just hearing about , It, and they are now talking about it an all sides. After denouncing the crimes of the I'oles, who have mnde a plea for assistance, the district attorney took from his pocket a typewritten statement which he read with great slowness and i*mphasis. He began by saying that he had waited five years until the people had become calm and could fairly consider what he had to say. He t"hen asked^what could Georgia reply 11 ine i'oies uemanueu uj n um. i right the citizens of the state protested when a Jew was convicted in her courts on the testimony of a perjured criminal and in a trial that was astmfair as ever stained the annals of Rusin. And further, the district attorney lec-lurcd, "what would be our response when this Jew was taken from prison walls and murdered by a mob, not one nf whom has been punished?" Mr. Alexander concluded by urging :hat "the real murderer of Mary Phaijnn" be duly tried and sentenced for the crime. It was understood that Mr. Alexanler referred to the negro Conloy, whose career since the Frank trial has been cne of continual crime, and he is now tinder a 20-year sentence for a midnight burglary. It was stated by the police that Conley was the head of an >rganized gang of burglars planned the robberies, sold the loot and dinged he proceeds. Ft is known that Mr. Alexander n^ade n thorough study of all the evidence n the Leo Frank case and he was itrongly of the opinion that he was innocent. The case, it will be recalled, ittracted national attention and for >ome time afterward was an issue in oral, country and state politico. The fact that Mr. Alexander 4n a awyer of prominence and is the pro 'ocuung auorney iur me Buiuumciu rives unusual weight to any statement le may make and revives a subject vhich was at one time discussed from me end of the country to the other. CANADA AND TITLES. * Opposition in the Dominion to Growth of a Class System. In deciding:, by a vote of 94 to 43, to isk the British king "graciously to rerain" in the future from conferring itles upon persons living in the Doninion, the Canadian house of comnons brings to a head an agitation of ong standing. It is a victory at least i temporary one for those who have eared the transplantation of the Britsh class system across the Atlantic ind who have, for that reason, fought enaciously against the growing habit if the British crown of awarding hpn?rs to Canadians of prominence. For many years the number of Canalians who received titles bestowed by he British king was not enough to tuild up any considerable class or to resent any danger of such a cldss'ffe-* oming an appreciable factor in the life f the Dominion. But of late the anlual honor lists have contained more ind more Canadian names and the endency has thoroughly alarmed those vho cling loyally to the conception of i Canada founded upon the strictest ossible interpretation of the theories if democracy and personal equality. This alarm has been accentuated, ind the opposition to honor giving itrengthened, by the conviction in many I nailers that the titles awarded are leldom given with a single eye to meru ?r virtue. It is even held by many hat the "services' rendered have been oo seldom rendered to the Dominion ind too often to one or other of the British political parties or leaders. That was notoriously the case in the event rapid elevation to the British )eerage of a Canadian now living in England. But the Canadian opposition to the lonoring of men who, having been 'unadians, decide to live abroad Is lot strong. It is concentrated upon he possibility of the building up in he Dominion of a numerous and powm fill aristocracy, indentifled perhaps villi a considerable portion of the vcnlth of the country and exercising 1 hrongh these two mediums social lower and money an undue and unleallhy influence upon the life of the ountry. Whether the king will refrain from 1 warding titles to Canadians in the uture in compliance with the resoluion of the Dominion legislators is an >pen question. It is not actually a natter for the king personally, but for lie British political parties, which 1 lraw up the annual honor lists and iward the titles through the action of he monarch. So long as it remains in advantage for both Liberals and Jnionists to retain this considerable ( ind useful power of giving or withiolding desirable rewards to faithful , ollowers it will be extremely difficult o induce them to forego the practice. . Detroit Free Press. Messages by Missiles. A hollow luce Inch shell, fused to emit on <triking a gas of smoke like density by lay, and luminous at night, and used o transmit messages from division leadquai ters, to advanced or exposed iiositions, is another war time secret which has now been made public. This form of communication was list used by the Germans, and afterward adopted by the Allies. A sample if the Hhell one that was captured from the enemy during the St. Mihiel Irivc was brought home by Vice Admiral Albeit (Heaves on his return from France. According to Admiral G leaves. the shell has a range of about 2,000 yards, ind is self propelling: Its velocity was such as to require 14 seconds to travel that distance, "slow enough," the admiral said, to enable an active man to dodge it. should he see or hear it coming. When it struck, it could he readily located by its smoke cloud by day, or its light by night, picked up, a cap unscrewed and the message inside delivered to the officer for whom it was intended. If a man possessed the industry ind architectural skill of the African int, he could build for himself, without any assistance, a house so lofty :hat the Wool worth buildinK would serve as a doorstep to it. X* The total number of people that :he world can maintain is estimated at six billions, or about four times the jresent population- At the present ate of increase this flgrure will be eaclied in some two hundred years. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE Going to School No Longer a Matter of Choice. STRICT OVERSIGHT THE NEW ORDER All Children, White and Black, Rich and Poor, Between the Ages of Eight and Fourteen Must Give Attention to Books for Four Months of Each Year. Following is the full text of the compulsory education law, passed at the recent session* of the general assembly: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of South Carolina, That every parent, guardian, or other person having; charge of any child between eight and fourteen years of age, must send such child to a public, private or parochial, or to a competent tutor, subject to the approval of the county superintendent of education, school for four consecutive months, or eighty days during the scholastic year, that the school attended is In session: Provided, That in case the term of any school is less than four months or eighty days attendance for the full term of such school shall be sufficient to meet the requirements of this act, except as hereinafter provided. Sec. 2. Upon written petition a majority of the qualified electors residing In any school district requesting the attendance of pupils on school throughout the full term, the county board of education shall order such attendance hereunder. This act shall not shorten the period of school attendance in any district where a longer school term than four months is now maintained and attendance Is required under the local option law. Sec. 3. That any child whose physl cal, mental or morai conumun uuma it for attendance at school is exempt from the requirements of Section 1, that such child must be designated as unfit by a person competent to Judge, and appointed to do so by the board appointing the attendance officer for that territory. Sec. 4. That any child living more than two and one-half miles from any public, private or parochial school, and any child under 12 years of age living more than two miles from such school, may claim exemption from the requirements of Section 1: Provided, That any pupil living within one mile of any regular route of a school wagon may not claim exemption. Sec. 5. That any private or parochial school attended by any child between eight and fourteen years of age, shall be first approved by the state board of education. Such school must teach such subjects as are required in a similar public school in South Carolina Sec. 6. The county board of education shall appoint such attendance officer or officers as the needs of the public schools of the county may remiire: Provided, That the board of trustees of any district containing an Incorporated town or city of two thousand Inhabitants may nominate to the county board of education the attendance officer for their district and may fix his compensation from the special tax funds of their district. The duties of such attendance officer shall be to take annually a school census of all the children in each" district between the ages of six and fourteen years, and to file with the county board of education, a report giving by school districts the name of each such child, the race, the sex, and the names and local addresses of each child's parents. This census shall be taken during the months of July and August. Any child ineligible to attend the public schools shall be reported by the attendance officer to the county superi' dent, who shall transmit the report to the executive head of the proper state school for" such special child. Sec. 7. Women shall be eligible for employment as district or county attendance officers. Sec. 8. That it shall be the further duty of each attendance officer to receive from the superintendent or principal of any school within the district or territory, the name of every child between eight and fourteen years of age absent from school, and to ascertain from the parent or guardian of child the reason for such absence. If such absence is due to any other than providential cause or causes or to such cause or causes as would seriously endanger the l^alth of the child, such parent or guardian must be notified to appear before the nearest magistrate at a special time to show why he or she should not be punished for his or her neglect: Provided, That tne auauuance officer may, in his or her discretion, excuse any absence. A full record of such excused absence, together with the reasons therefor, shall be filed monthly with the county superintendent of education. Sec. 9. That all attendance officers shall have the right to require a birth certificate or an affidavit as to the age of any child in his or her district or territory. They shall have the further right to visit any place of employment to ascertain if any child between eight and fourteen years of age is employed. These officers shall keep a record of all notices served and cases prosecuted, and shall make a full report of them once a month to the county board of education. Sec. 10. That any parent, guardian or other person having charge of any child subject to the provisions of this act who wilfully neglects or refuses to comply with these provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before any magistrate, be fined not less than five ($5.00) nor more than ten ($10.00) dollars for each offense. That such fines are to be paid into the school fund of such district in which said offense was com mitted. Sec. 11. That is shall be the duty of each teacher, principal or superintend ent.of any school to notify at once the attendance officer of the absence of any child between eight and fourteen years of age from school, and teacher, principal, or superintendent wilfully neglecting or refusing to report any absence to the attendance officer shall have deducted from his or her salary for the current month five (16.00) dollars for each offense, the same to be deducted by the county superintendent of education. Sec. 12. In the case of a widowed mother or of a crippled father any child above twelve years of age whose labor may be necessary for the support, In whole or in part, of any person, may be excused. The children of parents unable to purchase the necessary books for attendance upon a public school shall, upon the order of the county board of education, be furnished these books out of the public funds of their district. The county board of education shall be the competent Judges of such cases. Sec. 13,. To pay the salaries of all county attendance officers herein authorized. the sum of 160.000.00 shall be appropriated annually by the general assembly, no such salary to exceed (1,200.00 per annum. All disbursements shall be made upon duly itemized vouchers with the comptroller general. Said fund to be apportioned by the state superintendent of education. No. 14. N'o child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any factory, work shop or mercantile establishment or in any place or manner during the usual school hours in said district, unless the person employing cwh child shall first procure a certiflcat3 from the superintendent or teacher of the school said child last attended, stating that the child attended school for such current year for the period required by law, or has been excused from attendance as provided by the third section hereof, and it shall be the duty of said superintendent or teacher to furnish such certificate on application of the parent, guardian or other person having control of such child entitled to same. Sec. 15. All acts or parts of acts in 1 - A A n V* a nhir rn. consistent Willi una ati sic !!?.? ./ pealed. Approved the 1st day of March, A. D- 1919. THE MAN AND THE DOG. . Throughout All Time They Have Been Friends and Companions. Dogs are a tremendous subject. To write their history would be very largely to write the history of the human race, for practically wherever the human race is or has been there are and ever have been dogs. All down the centuries, in every country of the world, the friend of man has followed at the heel of some master, has rejoiced extravagantly in his favor, has abased himself utterly under the cloud of his displeasure, and, ever ready and ever eager to forget all differences, has reckoned the maintenance of good relations as the greatest thing in the world. j And so, from back in the past, when * 1?J ? ? -' ? 1 urhon hp is ' ClOg" nun liu i rat iiiowi tt iivm known to have existed at all only because of the rude carving on some solid rock overlooking some wild sedf'^ppm those dim times ?he one characteristic of the dog that seems to have come down to the present along one wonderfully unbroken road is his faithfulness. Five thousand years before the Christian era, the Egyptian peasant, as he watched each year for the happening of the great miracle, the rising of the .Vile, noticed hat its gracious waters began to trickle over his parched land just at the time that a certain glorious star appeared above the horizon.- And sc inevitably did the rising of the Nile follow upon the rising of the star that, to the present, the star's faithfulness could only be compared to the faithfulness of his dog, and thus Siriuscame to be called the Dog Star. Thus, even in that time, the dog had established himself firmly as the friend of man, 1 one whose faithfulness was so unchanging that it formed a just comparison for the rising of a star. True, there were and are certain eastern people to whom the dog, all Hevotinn notwithstanding, has fall cd to make appeal, amongst whom he :s still regarded as an outcast. For the most part, however, and amongst most people, the dog has had no difficulty in establishing his position as the friend of man, and in maintaining and adding to his reputation in this capacity. Instances are so famous and so many, so utterly looked for and ;akcn for granted, that any narration of them amounts almost to bathos. Dog devotion has afforded a subject to the artist again and again, a story for the writer, and a record for the historian, right down to the present time. And now, during the past four years, the dog race that all over the world his tn the best traditions of r raises are being sounded. The story of the war-dog and his doings is gradually being pieced together. From the very beginning of the war, as one writer has expressed it, dogs "had a paw in it." When the Germans invaded Relgium, the harness dogf-. which up to that time had been used for hauling milk, vegetables, and othet produce, l>egan to assist the refugees in getting their children and household | goods out of the invaded country. Later th?y hauled light artillery, and carts laden with blankets, bread, hay. and scores of other things for the comfort of the soldiers and their horses. Pogs did sentry duty in the trenches, patrolled No Man's Land, carried dispatches through barbed wire entanglements, amid a hail of bullets, and, above all. added to the laurels of their ancestors through the as^es by seeking out and helping the wounded everywhere, on the far-flung l>attleflelds of Europe and beyond. Never was there a time, so it would seem, when the place of the dog in the affections of the human race ought to have been more secure. And yet, side f?V side with all tms recognition ui what the dog1 is and deserves, there still stands, and apparently easily maintains itself, the system of the vivisectionist. It is a system which must, of course, ultimately fall, because. amongst other reasons, of its simple depravity. But, for the present, this depravity is covered up for the multitude under the terrible plea *f "progress"; whilst the devastating charge of "sentiment" is hurled at all and sundry who take exception to*the practice. "There are many things worse than sentiment," said a famous Knglish judge, not long ago, "and one of them is cruelty." Ingratitude is another. Xif Nine hundred lighthouses and lightships are scattered around the coasts of the British Isles. GARNERED WITH SCISSORS News From Within and Without the County. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Some Items of Fact, Some of Comment and All Helping to Give an Idea of What Our Neighbors Are Saying and Doing. Rock Hill Record, June 16: The directors of the Mechanics building and Loan association at their last regular meeting decided to put on a campaign lor investment shares. The demand J for money for improvements in Rock . Hill is so great that the association cannot meet it with its present in- ( come. The association is doing a great work for Rock Hill and community and needs the help of everybody to j l.eep the good work going. Miss Annie Stevenson, a Winthrop graduate. , was married last Wednesday at the J home of her parents in Fairfield county ( to .fames F. Castles, a merchant at , Greenbrier, that county Walter ( Barnes Rawllnson, who has been with the A. E. F was discharged from service Saturday at Fort Oglethorpe and is here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rawllnson Miss Elizabeth Wells Roddey, daughter! of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Roddey, graduated last week from Smith's college, Northhampton, Mass., and received an A. B. degree. Miss Florence Reid, who has .post successfully filled an important position with the Peoples National bank, has resigned and will again take a place in the Graded School in Easley, where she has taught for several years Miss Warberg McKane of Charlotte and Charles F. Hoffman of the Calhoun Drug'co., of this city, were ninnied at Charlotte yesterday. The < ouiiar counle will take a trip to the mountains of North Carolina after which they will be at home to their friends in Rock Hill . Lancaster News, June 17: Seventeen young men and young women, 16 of whom received their diplomas from the University of South Carolina last week, were admitted to the practice of law in South Carolina, the prescribed oath having been administered by D. E. Hydrick, associate Justice of the supreme court. Those admitted were: Mary Guthrie Sledge, Chester; D. B. Stover, Greenville; James DeTrevllle, Waltcrboro; Paul F. Haigler, Orangelurg; Marion A. Wright, Trenton; 1 Harold Major, Anderson; .John G. Simms, Barnwell; John Inglis, Cheraw; Marion F. Winter, Monck'a Corner; < Kussel D. Miller, Bennettsvllle; Ed- ! ward D. Hodges, Columbia; John C. j Taylor, Honea Path; W. W. Moore, Jr., i Columbia; William E. Bowen; and I Hurry Slmmonhoff^ C. C. Shell of I SpartrinffWrf? a ^iiiUHl' i otrthe class, was admitted to the bar. f Miss Beulah Lingle, of this city, ] Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Lingle, of this city J and Lieut. Elmer Sowell were married < Friday evening at the A. R. P. parson- ] age, Rev. W. S. Patterson officiating, i Mrs. Berry Wright committed suicide Saturday night at her home t in the mill village by hanging herself, j She was a sister of Robert Sims, of t near Great Falls, and her husband died ] some time ago Mrs. Commodore < Clanton and children, of York, are < visiting here as the guests of Mrs. ] FrvV?r> U TToHo Miaa TVJfll.'IrA/l Pun. < ningham, a mem her of the faculty of VV*ifithrop training school, left Monday night for Hock Hill to teach in the summer school at Wlnthrop college. Gastonia Gazette, June 16r 1919: At her home In the Union section Saturday night at 8 o'clock Mrs. Miriam Wilsoi, one of the best known and best loved women of that community, died after a long Illness. Deceased was the widow of the late W. W. Wilson. and a daughter of William Nolen. She is survived by two brothers, Joe M. J'Colen, of the Union section, and W. M. Nolen, of Gastonia, and one sister Mrs. Jane Craig; also by the following children, R. M. Wilson, Mrs. Dr. Leon Campbell, Misses Mamie and Lela Wilson, George Wilson, Annie Wilson and Joe Wilson, all at home; g Thomas Wilson, a druggist at Thomasville, and Frank Wilson, who lives In South Carolina. She was 60-odd years of age Funeral services for Solomon Eli Foy, an aged and respected citizen of the PLsgah section, whose death occurred Friday afternoon, June 13th, at 2 o'clock, were held at Pisgah Associate Reformed Presbyterian church Sunday morning at 11:30 o'clock Mr. W. L. Rhyne, a farmer of Iredell county, was here Saturday looking at farm lands with a view to making this county his home. Mr. Rhyne is a native of Gaston but has lived for several years past in Iredell county Mr. Roscoe Rhyne received a telegram yesterday from his i brother, Private Grier Rhyne, of head- t quarters company, 323rd, infantry, 81st ^ division, stating that he arrived at . Newport News, Va., Saturday. He is j expected home at an early date i Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Dixon, will leave ] \\ edncsday for Columbus, Ohio, to at- . tend the great Methodist missionary j centenary celebration which is to be i held there June 20-July 13. They will J go by way of Cincinnati where they ] will stop for a visit to relatives. It > is probable that quite a number of 1 Gastonians will attend the celebration also. j 1 Chester Reporter, June 16: Mrs. Isabella Ann Roberts Hoist passed away suddenly yesterday morning at ( her residence on Pinckney street. Mrs. ] Hoist had been unwell for several months, but the end was sudden and s unexpected Particularly sad was ] the death of Miss Alma smun, i which occurred last night at Black ' Mountain, N. C., where she had been ' taken in a vain effort to win hack her , health. Miss Smith was the daughter ] of Mr. and Mrs. Roland A. Smith, who ' live on College street, and was about twenty-two years of age Mr. M. I'. S. McCullough, a Confederate vet- 1 eran. passed quietly and peacefully away Saturday afternoon at the home of his son, Mr. S. S. McCullough, on ' Hampton street. Fttneral sendees were held at the home yesterday morning by Revs. C. C. Herbert and L. M. White, and interment was at Bullock's Creek. Mr. McCullough was a native of the western portion of York county, i ind was eighty-six years of age. He snlisted in the Confederate army at | Che outbreak of the Civil war; and served with valor and fidelity in the irmles of the south.- Mr. McCullough was a devoted men"her of the Baptist :-hurch at Hoodtownand was a useful ind honored citizen. He leaves one ion, Mr. 8. S. McCullough Capt. W. Carlisle White, accompanied by 1 Mrs. White, who went to New York a few days ago to meet him, arrived in Chester yesterday morning to spend i few days' furlough before going to Lamp jacKson iu ut? suusicruu uuu Capt. White was with the Eighty-First division, who got into action several $ weeks before the signing of the armistice, and rendered a splendid account of itself, and was most highly praised i t>y General Pershing Mr. Wm. Lb Murphy, of this city, has been appoint- ; :-d district deputy grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and has the oversight of the Pythian lodges at Kershaw, Rock Hiil, Blacksburg, Gaffney, Chester, Fort Mill, Ridgeway, Halsellville and Great Falls Miss Mary G. Sledge, who received her degree in law last week at the University of South ; Carolina, was on Tuesday ordered admitted to the bar by the state Supreme Court Dr, Hilland B. Thomas, who has been in the army medical corps i overseas for several, months, arrived In Chester yesterday, and will atones ' resume his connection with the Pryor -a hospital The following are tile ladles from Chester county who attend- J ed the state Short Course at W^nthrop college June 5-13; Mrs. J. N. Whitesides, Mrs. W. H. Thommasson, Mrs. W. R. Kitchen, Mrs Walter Blaine,, j Mrs. J. A. Jenkins, and Misses Laura McCrorey. Martha Stevenson. Lillian Yarborough and Orerby Tho first cotton blooms to be seen at this offloe this season were brought us today by Mr. G. W. Ferguson, who said they came from the farm of G. W. Stevenson in Fairfield county .Arrangements for the fair this fall are now J. being made, and it is the hope of the fair bureau that the 1919 fair will be the biggest and best in the history of the county. There will be many new features which will be announced later. The dates this year have been set. for Nov. 4-5-6-7, late enough for all the crope to be gathered and giving everybody a chance to take advantage of the good things in store. Miss Annie Stevens, of York, has been spending a few days with Miss Lottie Kluttz. 9 ^ DIAMONDS IN AMERICA. Geologists Have Large Hopes for Fu* ture Mining of Oems Here. Geologists believe that some day iiamonds will be mined on a very large scale in the United States. They 1 ire confident there are valuable dianond mines hidden under this country, because many loose diamonds .have oeen found Jn various sections. There hi.s is believed to be in either the Rocky Mountain or Appalachian range. Regular diamond chimneys, like those >f South Africa. They were filled with ?eriododite, akin to the famous Kirajerlite of South Africa. A farmer in Indiana, ploughing a rravelly hillside, found the first dlaxiond in America in 1837. More than :wenty diamonds have been found in Indiana in the last twenty years, and me sold for 31,200. Other valuable liamonds have been found in Virginia, 5 tforth Carolina, Wisconsin, South Car>llna, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, ' ' Idaho, Texas, Montana, Arizona and California. A laborer working in an ?xcavation in Manchester, Va., found i stone weighing twenty-three and ku 10CC VitmAf. .nree-quurier uunw m n>w, nuMi>jus stones, weighing from three to :wenty-one and thres-elghths carats lave been found In Wisconsin.?De:rolt News. Air Waves.?That aircraft actually navigate a kind of invisible sea is repealed by a series of motion pictures, !he first of their kind ever taken, that show the air in motion against the i.vlng8 of an aeroplane. Three miles of film were used in making the photographs, and they reveal the plane, instead of being continuously upheld by the air, traveling from crest to crest >f a series of waves: in mere technical word% the element of rarefaction which produces the lifting power of an leroplane is not constant, but is ex>rted in intermittent moving air waves, lot unlike the waves ft the ocean. These air waves have their period of 'ormation, followed by a collapse which, again like the sea, has its unlertow; and, during more than a quarter of the time in flight, the air flow :reated by the air screws has no lifting power on the wings. To take the plcures required a special camera demised by the invention section of the United States army. News and Courier, Wednesday: iVTiile he was In Charleston giving atentlon to certain of his duties, W. J. HcCaskill, a United States game warlen, whose headquarters is at Conway, :hanced to notice a number of algrett plumes on display as if for sale In the window of a millinery establishment. Jpon investigation Mr. McCaskill found :hat such was the case and upon the 10th of last month, actually bought ?uch a plume In the presence of a witless. The transaction appeared to conMet the milliner of violation of the migratory bird act, passed by congress. Upon the receipt of the proper afflda /-its, the milliner was arrested ana |iuu >ond demanded and given. She Is now iwaiting trial in the Aiken term of sourt. Meanwhile, her stock of algrett plumes has been seized by Mr. McCasiill as subject to confiscation . The Work of the Spindlee. The Government Census Bureau Issued Satirday the following cotton report for \lay: Cotton exclusive of linters, consumed in May totals 487,998 bales; in :otton growing states 721,946 bales; leld in public storage a,id at the compresses, 3,450,944 bales; imported, 36,112 bales; exported, including linters, 144,718 bales; linters consumed in k? to ao a UaIA In onnanminflT JlitV, 10,101 Uciifa, 1IC1V ?u , sstablishments 272,583 cales; held In public storagre and at compresses, 212,106 bales; exported 899 bales, spindles ictive In May, 33,536,011. >*#" When the Japanese desires to woo the fickle goddess of sleep he stretches himself on a rush mat on the floor, puts a hard, square block of wood under his head and does not sleep If he does not have it. So prolific is the common or domestic fly that In a single season one Industrious female could count her progeny to twenty millions, if all survived and followed her example of maternity. . .-j