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' . ' <: -ynm , ' ' : . IM YORKYILLE ENQUIRER. " i issued semi- weekly. * - . ' ' s % sfgj L'toTeiusrs sons, publisher.. $ 4nmiI2 8?WF 4or ll?? ^rjjinolioit nf thefotitipt, fecial, Jgrirultuipt and Commercial Interests?(the jjieojlg. established 1855 Y'ORK. S. C., TUESDAl'. 3IARCH 1,1921. x \ . VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS ? _ Brief Local Paragraphs of More orl Less -Interest. PICKED CP BY ENQUIKER REPORTERS /" Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. Mr. W. E. Gettys, well known and highly esteemed farmer of the Tirzah section was a witness in a case in Magistrate T. B. Glenn's court at Tirzah a few days ago. "How many children have you, Mr. Gettys?" inquired an attorney representing one of the contesting sides. "Only eleven," blandly replied Mr. Gettys, while the audience chuckled merrily. i Watch Out for This Fakir. A Fake agents representing tnemseives i as selling1 garden seeds, are operating in the eastern section of York county and probably other sections. A Rock Hill man was telling his exepricnce the other afternoon. "Some days ago." he said, "a man approached me and wanted to know if [ was not interested in garden seed. He had {literature and , he had the seed and he offered to send me some kind of paper ov magazine about seed. I gave him a dollar, with the understanding that I was to get my seed. I haven't heard any more ' and I have kissed my dollar goodbye." Buzzard Was Dynamited. "There was (considerable excitement at McConncllsville several days ago when someone dynamited a buzzard," said Saturday Mr. James M. Williams, ' well known young McConnellsville merchant, who is responsible for this story: "People were startled by hearing a loud report as of the fil ing of a big gun or the bursting of a" gasoline tank. Investigation revealed the remains of a buzzard in a field, the neck and feathers being about all that was left of the bird. Inspection showed that somebody had caught the buzzard, tied a dynamite cartridge with lighted fuse to it and turned it loose to fly away. When it got to town I lie dynamite exploded and all that was left of the buzzard was little bits. The explosion of the dynamite," said Mr. Williams, "was'heard for three miles around." ? .Buyers On the Job. .f "T found as nmny-buyeis on the job MB from all over the country in I lie east - BR? ern markets ns usual; hut they are no< | looking for unusually large business," MBj^^ksnid Mr. J. M. -Ramsey, manager of the BHBjMBL'kpatrick-lJelk company, who ha;; HB^M^Bccntly returned from New Vork. I^^^H^^Hiltimore and other eastern markets. B Where he went to buy goods Tor.his E > "Buyers from all sections of the ^^HflBflountry with wliom 1 talked," said Mr. fl Bfinmsry, "say that, they are not rxm Bbectingan-vlllinP IIhe as much business HH|^^Vthis year ns last and they are buying BHj^Eaccordingly. The general impression Mj^HR : New York is that merchandise is i ^^fl^^Bnow about as cheap as it is going to get. Cotton goods?that is tlie chf'nper grades?1 found were higher in New jflB^^B York than they could be purchased KMV from cotton mills around here. The buyers and the New York wholesale fl B people were not Inclined to lie very H|B optimistic over the outlook. AH of the B hotels I found were crowded and it is B B not "easy to get a room unless one B makes reservations ahead." And What Was This? ,T" t* i Vi(il>nllc eif Vnrk'No. C. re f ports the finding of more fearsome'! signs of a strange ur.d mysterious animal out his way. .."I did not see the tiack myself," Sir. Nicholls said; "but Smith Gordon, .mv son-in-law. saw them, and it is a true bill. It was the R morning of the snow?last Wednesday F ?Smith started out early on the way I to the gin at Filbert, and just before . coming to the branch, he noted soma large tracks on the side of the road. They were one-third larger than the tracks of any dog he ever saw. lie says, and it was certainly not a dog. Smith traced the tracks to the branch and j saw where the animal went under the! bridge; but he did not stop t'> see whether it was stiil there. I was hunting not a great distance away at the time; but I did not know of it until afterward. If I had known. 1 would have followed the thing up. It is a mighty good shotgun that 1 have and I would ; risk my chances with any kind of animal with it." Buying ;rcp Pigs.* | "Two buyers have bom in this [ neighborhood fey,several clays ryrontly j buying up all thepigs they cutihl get i their bands on*'^ said John K. Seott.! well known yopng farmer of tliej Philadelphia segtiwu Friday afternoon. "T'iey asked me-hp help tlicm. buy upj pigs and I hav?. .bpen doing what I could but I lind that there are nut-so many for sale around hone as one might think. We took a trip around this week. Mr. W. S. Peters, former constable in York township was in the party. We visited, the homes of a great many negroes in search of pigs and I found that everywhere we went the colored folks knew Mr. Peters and many of them would hesitate to talk selling pigs because of his presence. When we assured the suspicious that I. we were after pigs and nothing else. (:iey would begin to talk business. The buyers were ketpj, ..for pigv; about a month or six wweks . old and : they wanted nothing.. but slick , .ones.*.. <t only to fit- used fur .provnimnpressing j ne'oeksil'ius; ''that the dcsiio for lliinys j that were not absolutely necessary j tnust' he curbed, and that all money i that came his wav over and above i i ' j what was suflicicnt to supply require- . monts for food, clothes and shelter, 'should he saved and made to work ill producing more and greater values. ".Most of his hands had spent all their surplus of t'JItl before the sprinn of t'.ijn and they were keen for more, i They had not done much work during I tin? winter. It was too easy to net j whatever they wanted without working and all of tlieiu had sworn Iom? since j i that they would never work for wanes j (Continued on Pajjo Two.) I "Well this farmer is one uf the largest in the state. Jle runs about 1*10 plows unless I have the figures wrong, and, he makes enough cotton to supply a big spinning mill. "I tees use of the price of cotton, and other conditions in 1 ! 1S and 1SHD, the hands on his lands made more money than they had ever made before, and a great deal mure than they knew what to do with intelligently. And, as usual under sueh circumstances, the demoralisation incident to the task of blowing in their money took up so much of their little and attention that they began to let business go hang. Of course you know that is lite fault with the average man, the great run of men, in fact. They have Out little idea of the legitimate us<* of money, and most of ' tfi lit" eannot he trusted to make a sensible use of iui.^xlra ten dollar bill if left to their own inclinations about it."' < 1 -Well nobody understood this fact "better (tirin this same big farmer. That is why he is n lug.farmer, lie learned wlion'ho was young that money was which uewnueioss, win uc upprcciaicu by readers of The Vurkville Enquirer who have had more nr less to do with tile management of labor, especially farm labor, because it has to do on a large scale with certain problems tliat most of them have had to deal with on a small scale. The story was told the other day by a drummer, and he said if was true; but then since drummers'1 sometimes tell as a fact things that they have only imagined, just as many other kinds of people do, the story need not be accepted except as illustrating a condition that has always been here, and a result that is not altogether unfamiliar. "There is a biff farmer over in Anderson county who lias on hand just about TJ.'i automobiles," said the drummer, "and he docs not need more than two or three for the use of himself and family; he is not an automobile dealer, either but just now he has some automobiles that lie would like to sell." This statement was suggestive of something out of the ordinary and the half dozen pien in the group to which it was addressed naturally showed their interest, seeing which, the drummer nroceeded. the standing of the fanners, the merchants and the banks, principally, and as a general, tiling I find out about one from the other. 1 know that everybody is tight up and you need not make any mistake about that. I know that there are lots of business people? farmers and others?in this county who have their load, and I know that the banks are not running anybody down for the purpose of forcing loans on them and perhaps 1 could give you enough specific personal information to show you that I know as much about your county as do some of your best informed business men: but I will not do that. I will Just stick to my assertion that there is not a county in the state that is in better shape financially taken as a whole, than is your own county, here, and that does not mean that I sec much prospects for big business here either." An Automobiie Tragedy. lb-re is a story from Anderson county which may or may not lie true; but didn't learn where they were shipping them. One of the buyers told me that ho had been buying some pigs over in Georgia ;uid that he recently had to pay $150 toll charges to get a drove across the Savannah river into South Carolina. We found that there are a number of people in this community who have pigs and who don't care to sell." Business Conditions in York. "You people might think you are having it tough, and maybe you are, but I have this to say, and you may take it for what it is worth, for it is the truth. You are In better shape here in York county than they are in any county in the state., Yes, I believe you are in better shape in York county than they are in any county in the south. I have been all over this county, all over this state and over a good part of the south within the past few months and I know what I am talking about. Why it is true that you are in so much belter shape than they are elsewhere, I do not know; but nevertheless it is a fact." The speaker was the representative ' of a large fertilizer concern, engaged in special work for his corporation. Jt is his business to inquire into the condition of the farmers, the merchants and the banks in order to gather information as to the status of notes and accounts outstanding, and also get intelligent data as to the prospects of new business. Views and Interviews huppened to strike an acquaintance with him in the Shatidon Cafe Saturday as , he was passing through from Clover to Itock Hill. !* ???Aiit nlmiif THE NEWS OF HOCK HILL Carpenter is Charged With the Theft of Two Automobiles. CITIZENS OFFER SERVICES ON ROADS Father and Son Banquet Interesting Affair?Cotton Association President Sees No Hope for Cotton Market Increase?Many Worthless Checks Uttered?Other News and Notes of the York County Metropolis. (liy a Stair Correspondent.) Rock Hill, Feb. 2G.-L-1Gharged with the theft of two automobiles from a Charlotte concern and with beating a board bill to the amount of $50, a white man giving his name as S. Clans.v Mungo was arrested here today by Chief of J'olice J. 31. Yo.ungblood and Deputy Marshal Frank G. Allen. Mango will be taken to Charlotte for trial. /lt~is<-allegcd that Mungo bought two Fords in Charlolte, representing himself as another Rock Hill man. It la said, that when he purchased the cars he gave another name and insisted that the ijutomobile dealer call up a Hock Hill bank to ascertain validly of the checks. When the dealer called the bank asking if the check of the man whom Mungo purported to be was good the reply was that it was o. k. He got .an automobile which he sold .a short time afterward in Charlotte. He is alleged to have obtained a second car using part of the money that he obtained for the sale of the first car for payment. He is alleged to have b'rought the second automobile to Rock llili and then trouble started. The automobile dealers notified Rook ilill officers when the check was protested to be on the. look out for Mungo. When Deputy Alien approached the man today seeking to collect payment on the board bill, Alungo assured the officer that if he would wait a short time until he collected money from the sale of an automobile he would pay the bill. "Yes, we also have a warrant for you for the theft of two automobiles," the officers explained. Seeing the jig was up, Alungo quietly went along with the officers to the city police station. He is said to be a carpenter, is about 28 years of age and has a family. Many UhecKs tor collection. Magistrate J. P. Wingate of Catawba township is said to have po less than 100 checks in his possession, given him hy-bwriness people- of Rock Hill and ' vicinity for collection, presentation of the checks at the banks on which they were drawn developing! the information "insufficient funds." One of, the hardest hit local firms in the way of worthless checks is said to ho a local restaurant which has many of them, the majority being small sums, the drawers off the checks having dropped in at different times lor a meal and tendered the worthless paper in payment thereof. Circulation of worthless checks around Rock Hill, it is said, is a matter that is giving local business people no little amount of uneasiness. Commission Asks for Authority. The Catawba township road com mission which consists of Dr. J. 13. Johnson, C. D. Itcid and W. Hall Spencer, has asked the York county legislative delegation to pass an act giving the commission power to borrow $111,000 for use in road work in the township. The purpose of the act, according to 'the chairman of the road commission, is to put the commission in position where its paper will be more easily negotiable. The annual road tax in the* hands of the commission totals in the neighborhood of ? 10,Ooo a year and the purpose of the act it is said, is to enable them to borrow the motley ahead and thus expedite the work. Since the appointment of the township road commission, plans for the promotion of road work in the township have gotten well under way and the commission believes that it w:ii i.e mMo to Lrive the taxpayers of Catawba full value for their money. A nlimber of public spirited people of the community have volunteered their services in dragging the roads and doing other work. Among those who have already done considerable work gratis are Messrs. It. S. I'oag and J. S. Glasscock. Growing in Favor. Rock Ilill is growing in favor as a center for the purchase of ladies wear and chess goods. A number of ladies from Charlotte came down today to shop in Rock Hill, finding that they could get better values here than they could in Charlotte. Almost every day ladies from all sections of York county emtio to Rock Hill to shop. There were a number of Yorkville ladies hero t -lay. Eastern Teachers Meet. A number of teachers of the Rock Hill schools and many of those from schools around the country went to Kurt Mill today 011 account of the meeting of the Eastern Division of the York County Teachers' Association. Tlip programme was an interesting one and the attendance upon the meeting was unusually large. To Go to County Jail. Population of the county jail In Yorkvillo will he increased within the next few days when several prisoners serving sentences on the York county cliaingang for vagrancy will he transferred to Yorkvillo to await trial at the April term of tlit; court of general I sessions. They are charged with larceny and grand larceny and were convicted ill recorder's or hiagistralc's I ? have been doing so. But they can't now and just now it appears as though they will not be able to do so for several years at least. So you see where we are. The people who have been consuming two of every three bales of cotton that we raise are unable to take it. "There you are. The only solution for us is to adopt a policy of reducing our acreage at least 50 per cent. The late J. M. Cherry \ylio died a few months ago said that the only solution of the question for the south was to cease planting any cotion at all for awhile. 1 did not agiee with Mr. Cherry at tlie time that lie made his remark; but in view of developments (Continued on I'age Six.) ?JUCt ?UO OCI * vu. The Cotton Situation. "My friend, I don't know what to say or what to tell you," said. Dr. J. B. Johnson, president of the York county Cotton Association today when Farmer Locke of the Lcsslie section asked him what about cotton, whether to hold or sell. "The cotton market," President Johnson went on to say. "has gone down far beyond my expectations or in fact far below the expectations of the most rabid bear on the'cotton market. "I don't see much hope for the future either. Europe is sick and more than sick. Those people are bankrupt. They take two-thirds of the annual American cotton crop. That is they practically no lertinzer snippvu ;mu Hock Hill. Dealers shrug their shoulders and say that they don't know, when asked what the prospects are and farmers say they don't see how they can use the stuff, certainly not at any thing like present prices. Merchants Elect Officers. T. 0. Flowers was elected president and W. II. I-Iope, vice president at the annual meeting of the Merchant's Association of the Chamber of Commerce held last Thursday evening. David 13. Moore, Albert Friedheim and C. K. Chreitzbcrg were elected directors to serve with the board of officers. F. B. Shackelford of Columbia, was the principal speaker of the occasion. Short talks were made by Messrs. \V. J. Roddey, C. L. Cobb, J. YV. O'Neal and J. B. Sykes. A ban Father and Son Banquet. More than 200 fathers of Rock Hill ana their sons, attended, the Father and Son banquet heMjlj^.Charnber-of Commerce hall Friday evening, and the occasion was one that will long be remembered by both fathers and sons. T. B. Lanhanv of Cblumbia, state secretary of Boys' Y. M. C. A. work was the principal speaker of the occasion. Rev. F. W. Gregg, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church responded to the toast, "Our Sons?It's Great to be Their Duds." and Anderson Bass, bright youngster, responded to the toast, "Our Dads?It's Great to be Their Sons." The evening's entertainment proved to be one of merriment and. good fellowship for both sons and dads. Ladies of the various churches were hostesses at the banquet that was served in connection with the meeting. No Fertilizer Shipments. Despite the fact that the first of March is at hand, as yet there ha?1 been upon the spring term o't the United States district coUrt. Ever since the court was established at this place there has been much difficulty in finding quarters for those in attendance, due to the local scarcity of hotel and boarding house accommodations. An attempt will be made to obtain the Anderson hotel for the use of court attendants. It is believed that^if the hotel can be secured it will prove quite adequate since it contains about sixty rooms. Need for more housing facilities here grows every day, according to the secretary. Hardly a week passes but what there are several applications for houses on'the part of people who either want to move to Rock Hill, or already here, want to change from the houses in which they reside. court before the major charge was pushed. Both city and township officers are waging a vigorous, fight against vagrants just now and the city and county has been getting quite a lot of road work out( o^ those convicted. | . !. ; Hasi Three Counties. Frank G. Allen of Roick Hill, recently appointed a United* States deputy marshal for the# Western District of South Carolina has been., assigned territory In York, Chester and Lancaster counties. In addition the deputy marshal is subject to the order of the United States marshal anywhere in the territory. Mr. Allen will continue to serve in his capacity of constable in Catawba township. Egg Market Flush. The Rock Hill egg market is flush again with the "result that the retail price has.hit: the toboggan. In this correspondence several weeks ago mention was made of the scarcity of eggs. Of late however they have been pouring into Rock Hill and today an inspection of several of the stores revealed buckets and baskets of them. Several farmers from around the vicinity who were in RockvHill today offering eggs for sale said that they could not sell ' them at hardly any price. It is estimated 5,000 eggs were brought here today. Federal Court Approaching. Secretary Marie Fewell of the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce said today that the Chamber was now busy trying to obtain quarters for jurors, witnesses and others who would be: in Rock Hill within t-Vio npvt fpw rlnva in attendance FOR HARDING'S OATH g " * * : 11.! | , Book to be Used on'Occasion Now Being Printed, A BAPTIST BIBLE' r WILL BE USED i Volume Will Afterward Be Presonted M ra. Hardina as a (Souvenir*?Noted Verses Kissei by Former Presidents I Are Recalled. President-elect Hardingj the first 1 Baptist among America's presidents, will have a Baptist Bible upon which to take the oath as president, March 4. The Bible, decided upon at a recent Southern Baptist convention in .Nashville, is now being printed in the Baptist publication house in Nashville, and will be suitably inscribed. After the inaugural ceremonies it will be sent to Mrs. Harding as a memento of the occasion. Each new president(has a new Bible bought for the inauguration by the clerk of the supreme court, unless it happens,that he has a Bible which' is preferred. The clerk of the supreme court carries the book and holds it for the president, carefully noting the page and verse which the lips of the new chief executive touch as he completes ? I # the oath of allegiance, itself a very simple and solemn ritual. I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully. execute the oiflce of the president of tho United States and, will ito .the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Lodge Bible for Washington. The custom has prevailed since the establishment of the supreme court and has been followed with but three exceptions throughout the long line of inaugural ceremonies which have taken place in the capltol. General Washington's oath was delayed because of'the lack of a Bible. Just as he entered the Federal building in New York, Chancellor Livingston discovered that there was no Bible in the building. Master of St. John's Lodge No. 1 of Freemasons, he remembered that there was a Bible in the lodge room and sent a messenger for it. It has since been guarded as one of the priceless, relics of the lodge. When President Cleveland was approached with regard to the details of his inauguration, he expressed a desire to use the worn little red Bible that had been his mother's boyhood gift 'and which bore on the fly leaf, "S. G. Cleveland. _from - his - affectionate mother, 1852." Mrs. Cleveland hunted up the little volume for the second term and when it was turned over to her it bore two inscriptions, the first being signed by Chief Justice Waite and the second uy ^niei juauge r unci v.?>u;u ti >nuv March 4, 1885, and again March 4, 1893, Grover Cleveland had been sworn in as president. President McKinley was the recipient of a huge Bible of the "family" type, given him by Bishop Arnett of the Wllberforcu college, a negro institution of Ohio, on behalf of the African Methodist Episcopal church. The Elblewas bound in morocco with satin linings and with white satin panels, richly ornamented and bearing a gold plate engraved : "William McKinley, President of the United States of America, Inaugurated March 4, 1897." This volume was so ponderous and heavy that James H. McKenney, the veteran clerk of the court was completely fagged carrying it." Notdd Verses Kissed by Presidents. Colonel Roosevelt likewise had a Bible with personal associations, for Mrs, Roosevelt provided the one which had been used when he was sworn in as governor of New York. During his service of almost fifty years as clerk of the supreme court, j Mr. McKenny took especial interest not only in obtaining the Bibles, beginning with Garfield, but he also carefully marked, the verses of scripture touched by the lips of the new presidents and a day or so afterward either he or his wife took the book to the White House and put it into the hands of the first lady of the land. According to his record, Grant in selecting a page at random, touched Tsaiah, 2d chapter, verses 2 and 3; Hayes. Pslam US, verses 11, 12 and 13; Garfield, Proverbs, 21, 1; Arthur, Pslam 31, verses 1, 2 and 3; Cleveland, Psalm1 112, verses 4 to 10; Harrison, Pslam 121, verses 1 to G; McKinley (first) II Chronicles, chapter 1, verse 1; second term, Proverbs 16, verses 20 and 21; Itoosevelt, the only one to open the book to the New Testament, chose James, verses 22 and 25; Taft, I King's, chapter 3, verses 9, 10 and 11; President Wilson, the first time, selected Pslam 110, verses 43 to 48, and the second time, the 46th Psalm was noted, but not the verse. Mr. MsKenny held the Bible for nine presidents. He died in 1913, and was succeeded by James D. Maher, whose service began in October, 1913. Mr. Ainiior sis denutv clerk and cleik of the supreme court, has assisted the chief justice in both of President Wilson's inaugural ceremonies. THE CASE OF GILES System of Dealing With Alleged Criminal Insane is Wrong. A. M. Giles, a photographer, a little) more than a year ago shot and killed his wife on the streets of Rock Hill. He escaped and was later captured. He was tried at Yorkville for murder and the jury acquitted him "by reason of insanity." He was sent to the State nunc. Personal Mention. Dr. L. H. DuBoae of Bennettsvlllc, recently visited relatives here. Mrs. D. A. Whisonant has retrrned from a trip to Atlanta. Mesdames O. M. Spurlin and Paul Ferguson were visitors in Rock Hill, last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Whitesldcs of Paw Creek, X. C., and Miss Lois Whitesides of Derita, N. C., recently visited relatives in this community. ? Anderson, February 26: Notices were posted today in the Brogon and Riverside mills of this city that owing ! to trade conditions they would be shut j down from Saturday, March 5, until Monday morning, March 14, for the purpose of curtailing production. The same notice was posted in the Pendleton Cotton mill at Pendleton, and the Cohannet mills at Flngerville, all of these being Gossett mills. There was no curtailment of the Toxaway mills, another mill of which B. B. Gossett la president. I York. I l Held Family Re-union. A family re-union of the Whitesid.es family was held at the home of Mr. Jeff D. Whitesides near here today. All of the members of the fantily were present for the occasion and a bountiful dinner was served. ' Lyceum Number Pleasing. Particularly pleasing to Sharon people was the Metropolitan quartette which appeared in the auditorium of Sharon school house Friday evening under the auspices of the Alkahest Lyceum bureau. The quartette of male singers rendered many numbers and the entertainment was said to have been about the best seen here during the present lyceum season. Hunters in the Fields. Practically every hunter in the community who could And a gun and dog was in the fields today, taking advantage of the last day' of the bird season. Several this afternoon reported good bags as a result of the day's not Do permuiea iu niiiuuuuc ? retained and paid by him. In the second place, those acquitted, by reason of | Insanity should be confined to" th" State Hospital for the Insane for a period of not less than five years.? Greenville Piedmont. * SHARON NEWS LETTER Arkansas Pastor Conducts Servicos-r| Family Reunion Held?Other News Matters. i Correspondence The Yorkvllle Enquirer , , Sharon, Feb. 28,?Rev. C. H. Nabors of Camden, Ark., preached at both morning and evening services at Sharon A. R. P. church yesterday. There I were large congregations In attendance upon both services. Rev. and Mrs. Nabors are spending a few days with the family of Mrs. Nabor's father, Mr. | Jeff D. .Whitesides, while en route to j their home in Camden, from New Dia ones asKeu mm U, IU WO > he, GUes, should recover his reason, would they let him out of the asylum? Then and there it occurred to me that Giles could not be in for long." Giles was not sent to the State Hospital for the Insane because he had committed murder, but for treatment. Under our laws, an insane man carinot be held responsible for crime, because he ^acks the reason essential to criminal'intent, yet that is no reason why he should not be confined for a term of years before he js again turned.loose upon society. If he was insane once, what is there to prevent his becoming insane; again and murdering somebody else? ' ' ." Our system of dealing with insane or alleged insane persons in the criminal courts of South Carolina is wrong/ In the first place, no insanity experts should be permitted to testify; . save those employed by the state~to aetrtrr a judicial capacity. The accused should. '- J otiantata Hospital for the Insane, but -he was set free recently by order of the circuit court for Richland county upon the testimony of the superintendent of the State Hospital for the- Insane and members of his staff that . Giles had recovered Sis sanity. The Yorkville Enquirer points out that upon his capture Giles "began., to assume an attitude of dazed stupidity. He appeared not to understand what was said to him and carefully refrained from giving intelligent answers to intelligent questions. Also he studiously neglected his personal appearance and acted in other ways that were calculated to still further encou.age the impression that there was not the slight-, est gleam of reason in his mind or nnnl " "He gave 110 heed whatever to the reading of the indictment against him, With a far-off look ignored the demand for a plea, treating the whole procedure as if it were without interest to him." The,foregoing will remind many of the Thurston Vaughn case in Grcen.ville. The Yorkville Enquirer reports that a member of the local bar Bald of the Giles case: "If there is such a thing, as hoodwinking the law, I guess the i..e>a is about covered in this case.1 Anyhow, it certainly appears that way to me. The funny part of it was presented to me after the trial. I had business that took me to Columbia about that time and it happened that I went down on the same train on which Giles was being taken to the asylum. The <jfficer in charge of the man told me afterwards that as they approached Colum FERTILIZER SITUATION ? ?Large (Juantliles of Bilertalum PRICE 1I1ST C8iE IBCI-;pp|: i { i/'-M1 District Farm Oimonsto^n ' [A&ant; "f Discusses the -< Potash Recently Offered 'st' Royal at,$35 a Tori?Fairoers^Uj^d 'rlX^ to Mix Their Own. * ' r < y . "Realizing that there .la gpinji.-toijbf, . x considerable curtailment in .; ;-:'*?2jg fertilizers this year, we ape ; ; ; Y:'$M do everything that we can towa^rsjek-. ing to It that the farmere r ^ fertilizer as cheaply aa powft)le^k^(l>iithat no money is wasted, la thV.^atw . J i:.0: of fertilizer," District.. Farm 'Tyiwh^.^ stratfon Agent A. A. reporter for Tl?e' .TpricyiUe;^q]|^i^V^^:'. ;;? ?$ Rock Hiil /last, Saturday..J,'fyfritgitji 0'*?Z? planning a'series of'farmers' meetlnjifa for every county In the, state,' at ' ; * *$!$? tlie problem , of fertilizers and Ute/tk^x' . >*$? nomical usethereof will" be-di^uaBe^,,t. -1'lp Mr. McKeown wept "on tp. ^ay.:'s ',,$e>Y* eral such meetiftgs, under-the direc tion of John R: Blair, farm deihofijtytAt?" tlon agent', .will be held l? York';cb<tB?vty. There is no queotion ' of ' jtli^ifftci^. ,; that farmers "tan savebig mpnyy /'by '; ,\ * mixing their own ;fertill!?re. ' -^1$ than buying them ready, . propose to lend our aid In every j?sp}- - \ ble way in this work. Y.' *1 * V y 'V "Incidentally.' Baid Mr./ McKeo^rn, f' ?. "farm demonstration forces' all ' oter :J$ the state are doing their beat' to wftlcfc out for cheap offerings of fertlllezr, ' and all information in re^rd tovhai'gains .will be placed before the' faita? 1 era. Just the other day.'X heard of cargo of German potash that la'Awfat Port Royal, S. C. - "! ' ?/ &?> :] - "The potash , is a 'distress* ehipmjrvt ' and is now being sold at'' ^3B We are expecting to hear ot\otivtr-ckr-^ goes of- different kinds of.. -v coming into Carolina :j ;por&* tWjsysf . ' [' 'A propose to see to it "that th$i^rn^ra.'f'.. ' know about it. ' s - V ' "Interesiing Infonnatton to the fertilizer situation ed at a meeting of ferUl^rywm??y^r Agg representatives,'and farmers f&nftv;. "-fi7fere'nt" sections of; Jjeld.-in Cplurabl^lPebrujiL^^ ',^1 izlng the acuteness" 'of 'j?:^!.v ciemson collegercaiiggi^i.roiy.J ionfeiWer$^iwrooj^ that:' , ' . ; : "First There aj?'lar^.^uantit^v. ;v: : ;^pf fertilizer materials oflyfcrod'%.* ^;country.-'. s \/ "Second." From M to all' fertiiieera 'sbl^t iff' l' . year trill be on time ;':; . ';;; approximately 60 per 'ciit -; yi Oii time basis no definite '%$ arrived at due to dltferene*|f V?;, and character of security;!; . \ > ' } economic' fact that a good Hsfc > '. f: ^aya buy cheaper than a ' /<? "Third. The fertilizer $& { present unstable, due "to tl?'J^;Jtyg|^' t\ \.y speculators as well as niknufaet^tllrji^ have on hand large supplies ^ are being forced to sell fti trh^Mnrif;' cash prices they can obtain.^-, ' " these circumstances it remains.*' man who has1 the .j,cash-'to beat purchase possible.' No'j 6fae- :?*;.. say today what are the* best cawhJ, . prices of fertilizers. "Now the Department of -A^i^uUu^ ... of the United States goverpm^u^ sftjfiij..'; there Is an abnormal suppl^pf'r^ fertilizing materials in ttjls j and that prices being quoted'r^k^i&ntf local points seem unreason^bl^. hlgbTq^ the light of the general situation. One official of the department further ^ug-'.;' gests that it/seems useleia.tq Trrlt^VOt. wire for quotations since .yo'U Would get only prices corresponding to ;tbq general market. i ./ f, "We are advocating the .'Judiciotie I' use of properly., balanced.;\|ertoHzi&W' this year as a means of keeping, down, production costs," Mr. . McKeown^ Went. on to say. "We are urging firinert t>6? fore buying to get in touch With' iki-. many dealers as possible'in Otrder. take advantage of the competlupn now going on for cash. Co-operative pur* ' chasing in car lots or more 1$ ,ais.o>Advised. as a means of keeping down the ;> costs. By all means farther# should make comparisons of formulas, and costs in order to determine the advisability of home mixing." _ ^ : ''i:Uw 1 1 " . r WHIPPED BY h.GHT RIDERS^ Alabama Farmer Roughly H?ndi#d Because of Refusal td Join Bandit Silas Blevins, tenant on the farm-of Henry Caperton, near Stevenfcwv AlaJ, was taken from his home anA a severe whipping by night ri^efA ',J'' r cording to the-victim's stateia<&t'made '/' last Friday to county autoritl&.; > ' Blevins said that more th&fc100 m<?n f?nrrl?V< hllm fr-rim the presence of his family.to A'lonely wood near his home where he Was beaten with straps and whip^ by ei* 01* eight members of the band. j>6c. tors found the man's body'; Covered with deep cuts and numerdui. bfUiseB. . The victim attributes the biffltiriir his refusal to Join the "Tenaiita tTnion," a new organization $hat ha? sprung up in north Alabama. Officers investigating the case said that the night riders - who Whipped. . Blevlns called upon several otfier tbit? ants during the night and Issued warn-;y ;* ings that they must join the union.' _: ,v. .V. -