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. . ' ... A v. -' v I ~ V ^ ^^SSU JD SEMI- WEEKLY. " l. m. grists sons, publishers. % ^<tKill|| |1 ems pager: 4or 'ft* ijJromolion of ihc |lolitioat, Social, |gricuiiui;at and (Commercial Interests, of the jpeopl^. terms^tE?cop^EmKNe^fNCE ESTABLISHED 1835 <, YORK, S. C? FHID AY, MAY 13,1931. . 3STO. 38 . VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. : PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks, and Things I Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "I read over the list of Confederate so'.diers buried in the Yorkville cemeteries. as published in The Enquirer of last Tuesday," said Mr. Sam M. Grist i-if Yorkville. "to see how many of them I could remember personally. Altogether there are 1L'2 on the list. The first one whose death T remember was Thos. J. Echols. He died in 1SGC. I think it was. Then I found that I was able to remember all the others | more or less distinctly except thirty- ! six." I Dixie Still Stirs. That wonderful air, "Dixie." still j stirs the breasts of Confederate veterans and younger people too, whenever it is sung or played. A chorus sang "Dixie" to a piano accompaniment during memorial exercises in Yorkville last Tuesday. "Hurrah for Dixie?three cheers for Dixie," cried tin old Confederate veteran seated in the Presbyterian Sunday school, room where the exercises were held as the last strains of the song died away. Lots of Snakes. Barbershop talk among several' V J farmers awaiting their turn in a York ville baibershop the other evening, ran | to snakes. "I've plowed up more snakes in the j fields this year than I have ever known j before in any one year," said one far- ! mer. '"I guess I've killed a nan mwu while a number escaped. 1 don't know the why for so many snakes; but that has been my experience. The other! agreed that they hud seen more snakes j than usual; but none seemed to be able to account for it. It Actually Happened. A man phoned a York county undertaker Wednesday. " is dead," said he, "and I want the cheapest coffin you've got." * "Forty-five dollars for coffin and box is the cheapest," the undertaker replied. "Hul I don't want lo pay that much." ! came from the other end of the 11 if. "Well," said the undertaker, in king: a calculation on a scratch pad, "I've | got one without handles that I can sell i you for a little less than forty." "Send it along," came from the pur- j chaser. "We can use a crane if necessary and I've {rot that on hand." Getting Back to Normal. Mr. J. X. McDill of Hickory Grove. 77, one of the oldest citizens of that i section, was discussing Unrips generally the other morning. Said he: "Money is tight and there is little business moving and people believe that they are in hud shujie. But it isn't so bad as it might he. It took the county fifteen years to recover after the War Between the States and there; is no use for us to expect to recove r in I a short time from the World War. It^j is going to take several years to gitj back to normalcy?maybe ten. I don't : know that it will take that long: but 1 having gone through this thing oner | before I know that it is going to tako time." Mo., Dlrnk Month. may w*?v "May days are picnic days." observed ; a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher J this morning. "The month of May has: ever been the favorite picnic season. ! A season enjoyed by young and old. j when tiie trees are clothed in green i and the hills and valleys carpeted in J like color and sunshine invites. 11 J makes the heart young* to spend a day) in the big out of doors. The chilly days ( of the past few weeks were not thej kind to invite to tlie outdoor life or give the call of spring and the wild flowers or a. picnic day in the woods. The Sunday school picnic which in days past was an event to draw new pupils to Sunday school for weeks in advance, still holds its power and there is nothing* calculated to he of greater benefit to increased attendance." Legion Wins One. Manager Toots Oauklen's American Legion Larrupers went over to Port -Villi "J uestliiy ;iI iv.tih>un aim u< ii.ui < the Fort Mill outtit by a score of 7 tu 2, getting revenge l'<?f the 11-'." victory Avon by Fort Mill in Vorkville several (lays ago. it wits a good itanu1. according to all reports ami the Lcgiiinnin s played real jamb-up baseball. According (o one George Andral Shore r. of Vorkvllle, jester-jokester of the American Legion team and center li? Ider. the victory was largely due to the masterly pitchintr of "Surge" Wallace Marshall of the Ligionaiivs. who held Fort Mill to live hits. "Another feature of the frame." says Slierer. "was the perfect record made by the Legion outfielders who- did not miss a ball. Probably the reason was thai no balls were knocked into the Held." Moonshine Monkey Rum. "Speaking of this moonshine mixture called hy some 'monkey rum/ which is being manufactured in York and other counties on a more or less extensive scale." said a. Wag this moraine, "if one would have a chemist to analyze a quart of it, the average of the analy sis would show that it is made of the following: Heroin, Dynamite, Shellac. Rat-mum, Cold Dust, i Paregoric. Chloroform, Hair tonic. Cane syrup, Soap-suds, Gunpowder, Cylinder oil, Pokebcrries, Real whisky, Carbolic acirl, Wood alcohol, Red Devil lye, . i Lemon extract. | Tobasco sauce. Railroad spikes, ' , Bichloride of mercury, Cyanide of potassium. Permanganate of potash, Essence of nails and tack hammers, The Great Norlh-Wo:t. Hon. James Henry Rice, Jr., of Wiggins, S. C.. whose articles under the heading, "Studies in Natural History" are read with interest by many subscribers to The Yorkville Enquirer, is now in the north-west, having been sent there by representative commercial bodies of eastern South Carolina to invito farmers of that section to move to South Caroljna. He will be gone for several weeks. In a recent letter to Views and Interviews from Cleveland, O., he writes: "Cleveland, which claims a million inhabitants, with over CO,000 negroes, is one of the great cities of the world, beautiful, barring smoke and with things done on a titanic scale. They are preparing to build a $00,000,000 railway station and a building 100 stories high for a bank with Scoo.ono.vou capita i, ensuv mu largest bank in the world. They are moving a bank today into another building. The specie, loaded in vans, filled with armed attendants, was accompanied by mounted police with a j company of policemen on foot on either side. The strong boxes of the rich are well guarded. The house where John I). Kockefelier was born is near here, lie was not raised in poverty. I go from here to Chicago, whore an exchange is maintained for Iowa farmers. There is a wonderful opportunity for service to South Carolina if our people would wake up to realize it. We have 5,000,000 acres of id:e lands in eastern South Carolina. Were this asset digested. or even one-fifth of it there would be immidiate easing of the bur- ! dens of the slate. The fanners of this J egion and all the way to the Hoc kv ; Mountains, want land anil can pity for it. The whole machinery of our state government should be employed to accomplish this end. It is our way out of the woods." Wages Now and in 1914. There have been at least two protests to Views and Interviews against the slat* mi nt of a "textile worker of Yorlcvilie." who was quoted in this column last Tuesday as saying that lie is receiving 5- a week less now than lie was receiving in 1!<H, and who claimed that there lias been a much heavier reduction ?f the want's of mill workers in lho Soiiih thsin in the "Hast." ISntli these protests have come from the office end of the business; hut neither pmtcstunt desires to enter into a controversy. "The statement as published," said one of the gentlemen referred to yesterday. "is calculated, to give the publie a wrong Impression as to the real situation, and 1 fi el that in justice to all concerned, this wrong1 impression should he corrected. "It is a fact that there litis boon an average reduction of about 10 per cent, from the peak of high wages during, the flush times of a year or such a j matter ago; hut still the average wage j *' ik! n't nor cent. Ill IIIC |III."'1IL ... .... higher than it was in May 1914. For | ' install'':-, a card grinder who pit , for a (ift-hotir week in 191-1, pit $40 for a 55-h..itr week a year ago and now he gels $24.10 for the same time, it is the same with a fixer on frames. A [spooler hand who got $0.(15 in 1914 is i now gelling $14.25, against ahout $29 j a year ago. ! "Tiie average wage per hand in May! IfiH was $s ri2 for a fill hours week and j now this average is $17.25 for a 55- I hour week. The average hand is getling S9.ll more per week now than he I got in May l'.lH. "And there is another tiling that 1 | would like to call attention to. That is the dmp in wages lias not liven any- j thing like as pronounced, as the drop j in prices of manufactured products, j j I Vint cloth prices have chopped from ; 2'1 1-2 to 27 cents a yard down to (! 1-2 | and 7 cents a yard, or to about 75 per! cent and A'o. l!0 combed yarns have j dropped from ?."5.75 a pound to 7ft cents; a pound. The labor cost mi a pound of I yarn or yard of print cloth has not! 'dropped .anything like the selling price j and it is still much higher in prdpor- i lion thai: it was in It'l l." i ! - ^ - | Intuited!- T |i:n*ty \v;is ill niiii Mving \vli"i! i'n<- < ;' tin- ^rucsls. :i l;nly j ' ill' 11 ?n ! 1: i i! I whs not K'f> I l>V I In* J lii'slrss * In* !>ic|i;ii in:r (u tiikc lii'l" j !x* I i*t ui'<'. . 'Musi yr.ii ivnlly ,? >?" :iskol tin* I ln'Sli'SM. : "! will tin' !-1 ?|? liiTi- ;in<] in- insulti'il i [ .'iivtiii'i' niir.nli'." ilfi*l:iI'i'il i!if uii'-st : , ilnl)x:i:inii''. "Ilnw <i;i|-?> yniif |i||sli:init I i i*ni'' up :in-! :is|< mi- |<i ijikc p.-iri iit j :i:i ni i* isl full; il.iin c!" RALLY AT MOUNT VERNON Professor A, Mason DuPre Spoke on Christian Education. HICKORY GROVE METHODIST HOSTS Bounteous Banquet Spread on Church Lawn?.Celebration is Result of Recent Bible Class Membership Drive? To Build Sunday School Rooms? Sunday School Superintendent Has Served Thirty Years. (By a StnfT Correspondent.) Hickory Grove, May 12.?Members of Mount Vernon Methodist church, the church Sunday school and their friends to the number of more than 100 attended a banquet on the church lawn held Tuesday evening as an aftermath of a Iilble class membership campaign recently concluded. Following the bounteous spread prepared by the ladles t^f the congregation, the crowd gathehed in the church auditorium where the principal address of the occasion was delivered by Prof. A. Mason DuPre,' dean of Wofford college, Spartanburg. Rev. M. T. Wharton, pastor" of the church, presided, and the exercises included a song service, a feature of which was a vocal solo by Mr. Sam \yilkerson. Rads Won Contest! Jus. D. Crist, of Yorkville, made a brief talk in which he congratulated the Bifjle Class membership campaigners in bringing the class roll up from u membership of about fifteen to a total of sixty-eight. The contest, he unA x...rl C. ... vv/.tif m/iml-inoo li?ir1 Knrvn UVI niuwu, J V' l lie? 1IIUIIIMVIO iiuu wvvia staged between opposing teams known as the 'llilues" and "Reds," and while the "Reels" had obtained the largest number of members ho thought that the "Blues" really deserved congratulations despite the fact that they had lost, because of the unusually fine showing that they had made. He understood that the Sunday school had plans for building a Sunday school annex to the church and he was sure that those plans would materialize because it was evident that there was in both the church and Sunday school plenty of spirit that accomplishes things. Speaking on the subject of "Christian Education," Dean A. Mason DuI're of Wofford college, Spartanburg, entertained his audience for an hour, holding their attention throughout. He referred to the $33,000,000 campaign which the Methodist church of the South, is inaugurating and lie felt that the campaign would be most successful. judging from preliminary reports that bad conic to him. We denominational folks are a most liberal people, lie said. Wo not only pay our portion of the ta*es to the support of state educational institutions cheerfully as we should do; but in addition to that when our denominational, institutions cull on us wo go down in our pockets and pay for tljcrr. also. Teachers Should Be Men of God. It is a serious matter?this tiling of education. There are different kinds of education anil unless one has the right kind it is better that there is none at all. Hoys and girls should be sent to institutions of learning where the Word of God is believed and taught by those in charge. If I do not know mathematics how can I teach your boy mathematics. If 1 do sot know biology how can I teach your boy biology? If I do not know Latin how can T teach your bw Latin? if I do not believe in God how can I teach your boy the things of God ami the Christian religion? Deploring the fact that little attention was given to the teaching of God and religion in the non-denominational institutions* of the country, Prof. DuPre sounded a warning because of the tendency toward atheism and infidelity in the class rooms of many of these institutions. I would not have you for a minute think, he said, that 1 am antagonistic to stale institutions of learning. Hut I have no hesitancy in saying that there is a vast difference in the teaching of Christian religion in denominational institutions of learning and non-denominational. It" you ask me if there is a difference between the two, 1 must answer you?there is. Some, time ago. the faculty of Wofford college had occasion to employ an additional member of the faculty, he said. We found a man who had all the qualifications from an academic standpoint. We put to him certain luestions relative to certain religious matters. He failed to measure up and was not employed by Wofford college because he didn't measure up. Some, time ago the president of Erskinc college was taunted with narrowness because he required professors in the institution over which tic presided to subscribe to certain points of that particular religious faith. His re ply was. "Call it narrowness if yon will, brethren; hut 1 have nutieoil that lite narrowest streams cut the deepest." I say to you: If may he narrowness ?that sort of care; but would to Clod that we had more of it! Faith Shaken, The speaker cited figures to show thai in certain colleges many young men who enter therein with positive views regarding; the deily of (Jod and the Christian religion eome out of those instituiii'iis in many instance.^ with their faith utterly shaken. In the course of his address the speaker took occasion to congratulate the roiigregatioii and the Sunday school on the line progress being made and I slated that he was indeed happy to he invited to take part in such a gathering. Prof. DuPre left Wednesday morning for Blficksburg to attend a district conference. 1 Mount Vernon Church. Mount Vernon church, of which Rev. M. T. Wharton has been pastor for the past two years, has a membership of about ISO. The church stewards arc J W. S. Wilkerson, J. S. Wilkerson, T. A. Bratton, J. P. Ramsey, M. J. Wilkerson, Dr. W. A. Hood, C. W. Kirby, John R. Cobb. Mr. W. E. Wilkerson is the church lay leader, and Mr. J. H. Hood is chairman Qf the Minute Men. Mrs. E. C. Hood is organist. Superintendent Thirty Years. Mr. ,R. Li. A. Smith Is superintendent I of the Sunday school, a position which he has filled most efficiently for thirty years. This is a period of service unexcelled perhaps by any JSunday school superintendent in the Upper South Carolina conference, if not in the entire state. J. Mason McGill is secretary-treasurer of the Sunday school. Prof. H. Z. Nabors is president of the Men's Bible class of the school, which since the recent membership drive has a total membership of 68, with an average attendance of 45. J. S. "Wilkerson is vice president of the class; J. H. Hood, secretary-treasurer; S. H. Wilkerson, assistant secretary-treasurer, and W. B. Wilkerson teacher. The Ladies' Bible class is also a most active organization. Mrs. Joe Childers is the teacher. Other Sunday school teachers are: Mrs. J. M. Wilkerson, Miss Bonnie Plexico, Mrs. E. C. Hood, Miss Mattie ? Smith; Miss Lena Wilkerson. Another active organization of the church is the Ladies' Missionary society. Mrs. Lillian Ratchford is president; Mrs. H. Z. Nabors, vice president, and Mrs. John S. Leech, secreta ry- treasurer. 1 To Build Sunday School Rooms. It was announced-Tuesday that plans. 5 are under way for the erection of a 1 Sunday school annex to the church c building. Need for such an addition '' has been evident for some time past, 1 and, it is practically certain that the. addition will be made this summer. 1 OVER THERE AND OVER HE,RE j Salvation Army Worthy of Support ( Anywhere. 1 Over there, on the fighting front when the boys went back to the first relief zone, as they dragged along, the first bit of cheer they met was Salva- ' tion Army doughnuts. Away up, under fire, in the real trenches, or in what was left of a house knocked to pieces by German shells, the Salvationists * made and distributed doughnuts and "home-made" pies. How they got there, no one knew. How they found places to set up their kitchens, no one knew. They were in forbidden territory. No one but the army was permitted to bo there. But somehow they got there. Where they came from, who brought them, how they got their materials, has not been told. They just suddenly appeared and always where they were most needed. If you want to feci the jolt of a healthy fist, just say something slighting to a doughboy about what the Salvation Army did in France. If you want to hear English language "as she is spoke," with volubility and emphasis, merely intimate to one who saw service at the front, that a Salvationist ever did anything that was not exactly the right thing over there, or anywhere. Y^t what they did in France is just what they have always none nere ai i home, and are doing. They pick the worse jobs, the toughest places and the points of danger. Did you ever see in the old days, a demure, splendid Salvation lassie with her poke-bonnet and her lamborine, walk into a barroom and hear the coins jingle in the tamhurine as she passed it from one to the other who were collected there? If you did not you were never there. Nor was this just in the "respectable" saloons, but also in the worst of them. They did not go there just for the money, it was a part of the Salvation' campaign. The sight of the lassie gave many a tough heart a jar and many a man who had not thought of home for years, had the home picture revived. Many a one, too, remembered that there was a place he could go and be welcomed, when too low down to be received anywhere else. Many a one has sought that place nnd performed his self-respect and lost manhood. Can the Salvation Army be repaid for what it has done and is doing? It does not ask to be repaid. It asks no reward. It does not ask a Victory Medal nor a Distinguished Service Medal. It only asks support to "carry on.". Jt only asks money to go on won its work. For Washington this budget is $50,000. To get this amount there J must be several contributions of $1,000 each, others of $.-,00 and so down, while 1 there is ample assurance that thous- , ands will give their mites. Will those who can, give the larger amounts? ^ Surely they will. Wealth does not atrophy the heart and it is an atrophied heart that does not respond to , the work of the Salvation ArmyWashington Herald. A?A Veteran.?In the old days of the draft, an examiner was putting Sam- i bo through the usual course of qiies- ; lions. "Any previous experience?" "Lord, yes, boss," replied Sambo, i "I'se an old-timer. I'so been shot i at three limes befo" they ever was a war." j OVER MOUNTAIN ROADS Korkville to Asheville by Way ot Chimney Rock. SCENES AND INCIDENTS BV THE WAY Highway Improvement Being Made in Preparation for the Summe^ Vacationists Who Have Not Yet Begun to Move. Ey One of the Party. Asheville, N. C.. is one hundred, and Jleven miles from Yor^ville by way of iing's Mountain, Shelby, Rutherfordion, ForeSt City, Chimney Rock and Uong the French Broad valley and it is a most interesting trip to parties ivho are making the trip the first time ind perhaps more or less interesting to .hose who have made it many times. Leaving Yorkville last Saturday after-, noon at 4.15, a party composed of C. W. McGee, J. C. Burge, A. M., S. Earle ind Lewis M. Grist, made the trip into \sheville, arriving there at 10.40. We started out with the intention of makng arf'over-night stop at the home of VIr. J. K. Rhinehart at Forest City, but eaching Forest City more than an lour earlier than we anticipated we Jecided to push on to Chimney Rock md stay over night there, but when :his place was reached everything ooked dead thereabouts and we projeeded on expecting to hang up at rlendersonville. We took the Henderjonville road out of Chimney Rock ind after traveling considerably more ,han an hour, part of the time along he banks of the French Broad, and it sras slow going on account of not cnowing the road, its roughness and ts many curves, along about 10 o'clock ,ve ran on to a pair of mountain :ampers eating a very late supper. We stopped and inquired, "How far is it ? O'l "Unn^oronnvillp!" .0 nenuersoijvuic i , 'Yes, isn't this the Hendersonville oad?" "Xo, this is the road to Ashedlle?" "How far is it to Asheville?" 'About fourteen miles." And I'll say t was, "about." The road from Yorkvlllc to Forest 2ity is fine, and we made the sixty niles to that little city in just two and i half hours. We stopped at a filling station and filled up, the tanks, the listance having used up four gallons of gasoline and a quart of lubricating oil ind then figuring that as we had all if an hour or more of daylight ahead >f us, decided .to go on rather than stop and havo to pull out of the hay ibout 5 a. m., to continue to Asheville .he next morning. Then we fixed Chimney Rock as our night camp. The jarage man told us that the road from Forest City to Chimney Rcwk was ^ome ough. He was right. Rough describes t and the average speed was hardly iver twelve miles per hour. The Rutherford county folks are building lew roads, and mile after mile of it las been plowed up and dug up and hose portions that have not been finshed. and these are of very short stretches, are all but impassable and ;hey would have been entirely so but 'or their being ury. xne ruaus uic ?ng laid out and straightened and in nany places on account of new sec:ions being closed we were forced to letour, some times a half mile to get l couple of hundred yards. At fther daces the curves and twists in the oads were so sharp and so close torether that making even a fair speed vas next to impossible. All of the North Carolina towns? king's Mountain. Shelby, Rutherfordon, Forest City, etc., are either laying lew streets in asphalt or have done so ecently and in the towns where such vork is underway the tourist is delayed by rough streets and detours, as iractically all of the streets through :he various towns on which work is jeing done are streets leading into and >ut of the towns along the routes 01 he tourist. The summer tourist is t necessity to the inhabitants of the s'orth Carolina mountain country and ;he North Carolinians are doing every;hing possible to induce the summer ;ourist to come into the country. And vith the universal use and increase in :he number of automobiles the good oads that are being built will do much ;o increase the number of tourists to :he mountains. We reach :'l Chimney Rock quite a little bit af? dark, and it was some lark at thai. There wasn't a light to tie seen anywhere abouts and the air rt the place discouraged any attempt it a stop. We pushed on and by chance Jr ill luck we hit the Hendersonville oad instead of going on by the direct Asheville road. Shortly after passing Chimney Rock, suddenly turning a sharp curve in the road the Dodge headlights showed just ahead of us a pedestrian, who appeared a little wobbly in his gait. As the light struck him, he jumped to one side as if frightened. As we came abreast of him one of the party asked, "How far is it to Hendersonville?" The pedestrian replied, "Hello! Hello! Hello!" "IIow far is it to Hendersonville?" was asked again. "I don't know." We believe that he didn't know that or much :>lse. We drove up to within a couple of miles of Hendersonville to a cross road 1.1,1 i,ict,.ml nf turnincr to the left as we should have, we kept straight ahead ind this road brought us to the banks of the French Broad, and from the faint glimpses that we were able to tfet.ol' that famous stream and the | mountain scenery along its winding way, it was with regTet that we passed on until we hit the concrete road through the Biltmore estate and into the city of Asheville. At Asheville the party after a late supper in a cafe, registered at the Langren hotel and had a good night's rest after a long and tiresome trip. Early Sunday morning after break JU.3L VV C IUI/A <X> S>11U1 t 1 iUt V V CI IS1G vj i There are but few tourists there yet. The weather had been and is too cool for the early tourist and the city was just about like any other city of like size. There are scores and hundreds of houses and rooms for rent and the boarding houses all have out the "Rooms for Rent" signs. We rode around for quite a little while and perhaps doubled over some streets, at least a policeman stopped us as we drove up to he square, and inquired, "Have you been up this street before this morning?"'He was told that we did, not know, that we had been riding about considerably; but had paid no particular attention to the-streets, and admitted that we might have passed through that street before. He asked if this was a South Carolina car and was told that it was. "Well," he said, "this is a one-way street, and cars on this street go the other way. But ycu can go on this time; but don't come this way again." We didn't. The policeman was very polite and very considerate, evidently looking at it from the standpoint that the passing tourist is one of his problems and had to be given some consideration in the violation of city traffic laws. Leaving Asheville at 2 p. m., we started for home by way of the Hen dersonville road to Chimney Rock and along the banks of the Broad?our Broad river?and it is altogether different up there from what it is at Ninety-nine Islands for instance. It is very narrow and swift running, tumbling down over the rocks and through; narrow gorges, where to all appearances it would be an easy matter to dam up the waters and develop almost unlimited electric power that would furnish all the light and power that that section of North Carolina could possibly use. But that is no farming country. There are people through that section w'ho may be farmers, but if they are farmers and depend on the crops they raise, how they live is a mystery to the fellow who is used to seeing farmers of this section cultivating great fields. The mountain farmer cultivates small patches and uses almost every available foot of land, some of it being land that couldn't possibly be cultivated by any other means than by hand. But it ic tho tourist who is the..main crop of the folks up that way. They gather this crop during about three months of the year and then begin planning for the tourist the next summer and here's hoping that his crop is generous, because to live in those mountains during the eight or nine barren months entitles him to bountiful crops during the open season. Reaching Chimney Rock early in the afternoon, we stopped-for a bit of a look at the famous rock and Its surrounding mountains. There are several hotels there. One of them, the Mountain View, is quite a pretentious establishment and doubtless is filled to overflowing during the hot summer days, as are most likely the other and smaller hostelries. Her? the highway runs right along the Broad and across the river away up is to be seen the famous pile that gives the place its name. Towering high above the "rock" are great mountains stretching far into the distance, capped with great granite boulders, and at one place is to be seen tumbling over the highest crest a small waterfall that apparently tumbles some 200 feet or more before it is lost to view among the forest trees at the base of the mountains. This is more of a sight than is the great pile "Chimney Rock," although all tourists to the place are supposed to climb up the round-about road to the foot of the irock and climb to its summit, some 250 feet, up the steps and take a view of the surrounding mountains. Passing on the trip was uneventful except a stop of an hour at Forest City for gas for the car and supper for ^he party. "VVe reached Yorkville about 11 o'clock, after traveling considerably more mileage on the return trip than on the going, owing to a miscue on the road that carried us several miles out of our course. USES A DIME FOR BAIT Beggar Never Empties Hat?Nest Egg Draws Contributions. The blind beggar had just fished all the change out of his old battered hat except a nickel and two pennies, relates the New York Sun. "Say," exclaimed the man who dropped in the nickel, "what's the big idea? Why not take all the money out of the hat and put it in your pocKei: The blind begg^; smiled a wise old smile. Apparently he knew his trade. "Them's for bait," he said. "What do you mean, bait?" the inquisitive one demanded. "Why. if there's no money in the hat it.looks like I'm hiding out on the generous. If there's only pennies, people will drop only pennies. When there's niekles and pennies, folks can drop in either without blushing. I usually try to keep a dime in sight, but i ain't took one in yet. A dime in the hat is pretty generally good luck." MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED Col. Arthur L. Gaston of Chester the Orator of the Occasion. VETERANS WERE GUESTS OF 0. D. C. *7 ! ; /'/ Graves of Deceased" Soldiers of All Former Wars Decorated?Memorial Orator Reviews Record of Carolina's Sonsr-Bountiful Dinner Served to Soldiers and Other Guests. With Col. Arthur L. Gaston, of Chester, as the orator of the occasion, and veterans of the Civil and World wars ? ? ?? - ? ?- AM/in OIAW _ I1UIIUI gUCSLS Ul CHG uwwwwn, VVMfederate Memorial Day was observed here Tuesday. The exercises were un- * . der the auspices of Winnie Davis Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. W. H. Herndon, president Exercises were, held in the Sunday school department of the First Presbyterian church. There were several. hundred people, including pupils of the v Yorkville Graded schools and children of the Church Home. orphanage, in attendance The programme of the day, included the singing , of a number of patriotic songSj, by the Church Home orphanage choir, school children and j Others. ' : The exercises were opened with prayer, Mayor E. A., Hall presiding as master of ceremonies. The orator of the ' v occasion was introduced by CoL W. W. Lewis. . -v v Pays Tribute to Deceased Men. In the coprse of his address CoL Gas- t ton paid tribute to the participants in former wars. He called attention' to the fact that the south perhaps was . richer in historical interest than any ' .; other section of the country. He regretted that the majority of the historians of the country were residents of : ' ' ---? J. J 4V.O+ otVIO* Vl(D_ tne norm aim cmi auu uiai. tory of the south that was written was largely the work of these historians of other sections and from their viewpoint. ,* . y Referring to . the recent World war, he declared that while the Twentyseventh division .(New. York),'assisted in breaking the famous Hindenburff line in 1918, the brupt of that wonderful accomplishment was borne by tfce Thirtieth division, composed of men:of the Carolinas and Tennessee. Yet, said he, because people east and north pay \ attention to the writing of history, v will be made to appear that, the ty-seventh division was almost entirely -y responsible.for the In his address CfbT^dSraff<f6vie^Ba the activities of southern men and especially South Carolinians In the War of the Revolution and in other wars.of \ the country. He dwelt at length on the / record of the Confederate armies in the , War Between the States. "You men," said he, to the Confederate veterans seated in front of him, "were not-licked by the Yankees and never were. The fact of the matter is that you were .' simply exhausted by your continuous performance, in licking them." He paid tribute to the great leaders of the Confederacy in the War Between the States and called attention to the > fact that there is now in use in the ? tingnsn scnouis ma a. icai uuun uu ?*??itary strategy, the military campaigns oi General Stonewall Jackson, the text book being especially prepared by a colonel of the English army. Urges Writing of History. He appealed to the young veterans of the "World war before him to write the record of their deeds and experiences in' the late World war in order that that record might be preserved for their posterity. He doubted, however, if this would be the case because his experience with ex-service men thus far had been that they were not inclined to even discuss informally their late war experiences. The roll call of soldier dead was read by Senator John R. Hart. Following the exercises in the Sun', day school auditorium the audience repaired to Rose Hill cemfetery, where graves of veterans of the Revolution- * ary, Mexican, Civil, Spanish-American and World wars veterans were decorated with wreaths. There are three new soldier graves in the cemetery since , * the late World war. They are Sergeants William Ganson Williams, J. Bratton Lowry and Private Meech Stewart. Dinner for Soldiers. With the singing of several songs by the school children under the direction of Miss Lula Moore Logan and the decoration of the graves, exercises at the cemetery were concluded. Ex-soldiers and other invited guests then went to ' the festal hall at .the church, where, a bountiful dinner was served by members of the Winnie Davis Chapter, U. , D. C. Civil war veterans were guests of the Star theatre during the afternoon and also treated to lemonade by the York Hardware Co. Soldiers Present, i The register of visiting soldiers, as | kept by Mrs. John S. James, showed that the following Confederate soldiers were present: B. R. T. Bowen, Co. K, 4 S. C. V.; N. D. Glenn, Co. K, 4. S. C. V.; H. F. Horton, Co. F, 6 S. C. Cavalry; A. J. Mc^T-? n c* rt if . TKT T> TXThl++Q_ Liee, v^u. A, ? v.f ??. J-#. ?? ker, Co. F. 5 S. C. V.; G. H. O'Leary, Co. G, Palmetto Sharpshooter; M. S. Carroll, Co. D. 3 S. C. V.; L. B. White, Co. G, 18 S. C. V.; W. E. Erwln, 5 S. C. Artillery; R. B. Youngblood, reserves; A. H. Merritt, Co. B. G S. C. V.; W. F. Armstrong, Co. G, 18 S. C. V.; J. M. Caldwell, Co. G, 17 S. C. V.; L. L. (Continued on Fagc Two)