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i - . yc^Ric^HBiLF3 ^-iMUIRE^ = ^ ISSUED SEMI- WEEKLY. . ' %'iW^i L. M. GRIST'S sons, ws*rt % dfamits ciusjjajjBr: ,J[or tin ?romotion af the fntitiqat, ? oeial, Jgriculfuipt and fommcrriat Interests of the|enptq. TERMs^LE?cop^,EnreNcE?MAJ;^lll ESTABLISHED 1855 ~ YORK, 13. C., PRIDA.Y, JULY 2-2,1931. " . '. NO. 58S| ? 1 ? ?ri_ "VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED DP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. . It's easy to grin when the cash rolls in And your life is a cloudless day; It's easy to prance in the costliest dance If the Fiddler's received his pay; It's easy to sing till the rafters ring If joy is the Heart of the Song; But?Give me the fellow that doesn't show yellow "When everything's gone dead wrong! Cut Out the Worry. The hardest work you ever do Is worrying about it; What makes an hour resemble two Is worrying about it; The time goes mightly slowly wncn You sit and sigh and sigh again And think of work ahead, and then Keep worrying about it. Just buckle up and buckle in? Quit worrying about it. By work, not worry, you will win? Quit worrying about it. A task is easy, once begun; It has its labor and. its fun; So grab a hold and do it, son? Quit worrying about it! What Do You Think? "Dear Sir: I think that this is one of the shortest and most satisfactory essays on an interesting subject that I have ever run across. Don't you? Very respectfully, Miss ." Fort Mill, July 20. THE KISS. A kiss is a peculiar proposition. Or no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to steal it, and the old man has to buy it. The Baby's right, the Lover's privilege, the Hypocrite's mask. To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid, charity. Foolishment. i "Rogers lives in a small country LUW11. "How small?" "Well, it is so small that he regards every competitor in business as a personal enemy." "Goin' to the show at the opery house t'night, Josh " "Dont know. Hi. What's on " "Nuthin* much, I eal'late. They call it the 'ilea Nymphs.'" John?"Don't you think that the way the women wear their skirts so high k make them look shorter?" k Henry?"Yes, and they make the I men look longer." ? The Bonus Bill. * Writing from Washington, Congress^ man J. J. McSwain, who was the principal speaker at the Foulh of July ce'ebration in YorkvlHc, says: l "I note with much interest that in H your issue of July 12th you note what ? 1 said about the Bonus Biil. B.ut since then there has been a big change. The president has come down to the capitol and urged the senate to delay action and I presume that the wish of / the president will be law to all loyal party men on the Republican side ana therefore the bill will be sidetracked. I had assumed tluit, from the interview of Air. Penrose some weeks ago. the Bonus Bill was considered to he a part of the Republican programme. P seems that Mr. Penrose was not inspired?or there has been a new light discovered." Governor Cooper's Successor. "It is of great moment to South Carolina to know who will succeed Governor Cooper," said a prominent "down state" citizen, who was talking it over with Views and Interviews the other day. "Conservation of resources and utilization of more assets are necessities for South Carolina. Sf>mc man. big enough to tackle it and. with brains and informatiion sufficient to1 make it plain to the people might sweep things in the next gubernatorial election. They will go at things in the old way, I suppose; but, Lord! what . an oppbrtunity for service! The people have made the game so that a poor man no matter what his ability, cannot play it; and they suffer the (consequences. A destructive ligut means nothing and gels nowhere. South Carolina lias vast resources, were they utilized; and they can he utilized. Outside capital can be brought in to develop them and people with the capital. As it is, our people cannot lift their eyes above Kraft, and the small loaves and fishes of political inanoeuvcring. Why have not the lumber mills and timber owners paid taxes on their stumpngc 'standing timber)? They have cut over a billion feet for twenty-three years annually. Why are we getting nothing out of our marine resources Why are ten to twelve million acres of good land left idle? What are we doing to save our forests? a former acreage of S.Odd,000 being reduced to SOO.dOO, only onetenth left us? Ought not these questions to he answered?" .?' Rattlesnakes. [Supervisor Hugh G. JSrown, who was a. saw mill man in the Kind's Mountain Battle Ground country in his younger days, fell into a reminiscent mood when he dropped into Views and Interview's office and. happened to notice the dried hide of a diamond back rattler on the wall. "That reminds me," said he, "of r The ynunfr nianoiaeeu immiKiaiu kh-is wore the easiest prey. The piano player was always a drawing card. lie ran to type?a donah-faced. lone-haired youth with the eternal cigarette hang-intf from drooping; lips. In the hark of the dance halls was | the beer bar. Between dances the I patrons, men and women, lined up at I the brass rail waiting; some spendthrift's ery: "Set tip the house!" The dan cos were fostered by the ward heelers, who saw in them a way to promote political fraternity and to line up votes. Picturesque as they were, their passim; is a step forward in the social life of the East Side. The late Vernon Castle used to enliven tilings at the nocturnal haunts when lie and Irene paid them a visit by sittiru; in at the trap drummer's seal. Castle was an accomplished ja x/. drummer and s'apped a nasty cowbell. Now?at what few nocturnal haunts thai arc left out of the wreckage? Wallace Hi-id. the screen actor, is ap,1 peanut; as ;l saxnphflno player. He, ijtoo, blares a wicked minor. 1 doubt ,! if there are any men who do not nurse ja secret ambition to tout a saxophone. [j J ?President Harding has declarer' : i himself against the, Soldier Bonus measure in a recent message to coni frre-!0. Danny Einstein Assoelaitnn, Young 1 GriJTo, floor manager. Every time the bell rings. it's a new keg. Wear your brightest red tie, boys!" Young toughs, ready for battle and with their Iiair smelling of cheap poinmade, arrived early and remained until dawn. The girls from the shirtwaist factories and toilers in the loits came. Fitrhls were numerous. At midnight, the tin horn gamnlers. flush with money, uttme from uptown with their women of brighter dress and obvious profession. S'ummcrs sal in the boxes and singing, waiters passed in and out the crowds with foaming glasses of "beer at five cents a copy." -Men gyrated in a stream of perspiration with their ladies who chewed gum. ft was a picturesque crowd, ever ready with its fist?hard drinking and hard living, yet good-natured, easy going and p'iabie. Winding in and out among the dances, slow and sauvo like sleek vultures, were the young cadets. They came not for pleasure hut for protlt. The ".Missing Clirls" column was recruited from these East Side spiels." long while; but I never caught up with it. "Later I learned that an old German settler who lived in that country had been seeing the tracks of that big snake along the mountain trails for years and. years; but had never been able to get sight of it. "Rattlers live to a ripe old age and for aught I know that 'old Daddy Rabbit* of the mountains may be sliding and gliding up there in the hills even now." NEW YORK CITY 0. 0. Mulntyre Gives Few Impressions of a Day. East Side "spiels" have died witn prohibition. The colorful little handbills?throwaways, the East Side calls them?announcing "grand balls and receptions" are seen no more. These dances were treasured events around Houston, Grand and Delancy streets. Hallowed memories indeed! Who can forget the "second annual dance given by those well known friends. Greaser McCloskcy and Poke Cohen at New Moon Hull, gents 25 cents and ladies 15 cents?" And also "the special event of the season?the grand reception of the biff snake I killed up in the Battle Ground country a number of years affo. It wasn't a diamond back; but a timber rattler, because diamond backs arc rarely if ever found in this country. But this snake was a whopper?bigger than the one you have there. I kil'ed J it with a biff stick. It didn't offer to I tlffht and was Jittlc trouble to kill. "We skinned the snake and hung its hide up on the sfde of the saw mill shanty. "A few days later I remember that several or the hands and myself were standinff at the shanty near the snake hide. A stronff wind was blowing and none of us noticed that the snake hi.de had been blown to the ground. "Chancing to look on the ground a short time later I saw the big snake hide kind of coiled up like a live snake. In fact, it looked for all the world like a big, live rattler. " 'Look yonder,' I exclaimed, directing tlin nttontinn nf nnp; nf the WOl'k men to it. "Man alive,'" you should have seen him potting out of the way of that hide. "I have seen some big timber rattlers killed in the Kind's Mountain Battle Ground country," Supervisor Brown went on to say; "but the big,gest rattler I ever got a trace on up there may be living still for all I know. "I recall one Monday morning seeing the track of a tremendous snake. The .'track was at least six inches wide and was light fresh. "I asked some of the hands coming to work if they had seen anything of a big snake track, they having come to the mill just before I saw the track, which was not more than ten minutes old. They said that they had been there about fifteen minutes and had seen no track and that is how I knew it could not be more than ten minutes old. eit* T f rn tlnrl I hnt QTlJlkn ffiF .1 | FLIM FLAMMING PETER ~ | Rock Hill Negro Nominated for Seat in the Hall of Gutiibles, FALLS FOR THE GOLD NUGGET STORY Treasurer of Cross" Roads Church Buncoed Out of $240?Slick Negro Preacher Puts New Touches on an Old Gag and It Works to Pcrfeci . % 1 tion. (B/" a Staflf Correspondent.) Rock Hill, July 21?Badly wanted by police officers is the Reverend George Moore, colored minister of the GosDel. bunco steerer and flim-flam artist extraordinary. For the parson pulled a job on Peter Jones, colored man living on the "YVhltner farm near Rock Hill, a few days ago that may cause Peter to loose his place as treasurer of Cross Roads church. Furthermore the operations of the flimflam specialist may cause the gullible Peter to loose his standing as one of the leading disciples of the Cross Roads flock and unless he antes up with some $2-10, may yet land him in the sheriff's hotel. There is quite a story connected with the operations of Reverend George and Deacon Peter Jones?a very interesting story as told by S. H. White, detective of Rock Ilill, who has been called in to locate the Reverend and that part of the $2-10 which may be left, although, poor Tcter says he " 'lows as how derc ain't no leavings cause dat smart niggah am had plenty of time to kill a big 'un wid de funds ob dc church." But be that as it may, hero is the story and the facts upon which Peter .tones is nominated for a high scat in the Hall of Gullibles: Along toward the last of June a dignified looking colored brother with a decidedly ministerial appearance meandered up to the house 'of Jones hear Bock trill, told Peter he was a mipister and asked to be taken in for a few days. The stranger had a good line of talk and Peter Jones being much impressed with him, invited him to "set." Preacher Discovers Gold. After a couple of days the Reverend .Moore informed Jones that he had been walking around bis promises,' 'that be had been impressed with the glittering glare of certain rocks on the place and that he waa certain that he had discovered gold. lie explained further that he hud had more or less experience as a sold miner .and prospector in his younger days and that ho I couldn't ho fooled. In fact, lie said that he was not only sure of gold in the 'rocks hut that he had come upon twelve nuggets of gold which he had buried. ' >le suggested that Peter and others | go with him to the very spot immediately lest they t/hink that he was lying; hut Peter, who was all up in Int.air on account of the developments, suggested that they all wait until the following day. This was satisfactory to Revcro'nd Mobrc. There was more or'less talk in the Jones house that night about gold and about the nuggets and then.: were dreams of gold throughout the night. rCarly on (lie morrow Reverend Moore commanded Pcler to bring him four drinking glasses, some vinegar and some cotton and a pick and shovel. 11 was agreed Ihat Pcler and his wife and Maltic Adams, friend of the " * *11 " ?or?rM no n \r fllfl .Junes l.'tiniiy, nnuum ...? minister to the plnee of buried gold. Holding in his band what be said was a compass, the preacher lead Ibe procession, making a winding, tortuous route over ibe Jones farm and finally winding up in the woods at a point about a half-mile from the Cherry r? iad. Silence Reigned. Silence reigned on that journey because before starting Reverend Moore bad given instructions that "nobody am to do any talking but mail se'f." Arriving at the place of buried gold, Jones wife was instructed to turn a J leaf in the Bible which she bad been ordered to bring with her toward the left every time the wind changed. Then Reverend Monro got busy. He placed the four drinking glasses in a square and about twenty inches apart, lie poured some vinegar in each of the glasses. Then he stuffed the noses of the trio who had followed him full of cotton. I'lacing a big wad of eoli.. ii... i>i.niM' nf ihe four glasses he poured sumo sort of liquid on il and applied a mulch. II. flamed up. Digging Begun. This was the signal to dip, the preacher informed his followers and forthwith he hepan to dig: in the soft, clay. In a short time he struck what, he said was ;t gold inippct and then J another and another were brought to tlie surfaee until finally there were twelve shining Pars in plain sight of (he amazed neprnes. Then all the party were sworn to scercey until the bullion eould he disposed of. The stuff was then carried In the I Jones house where Reverend Moore j informed litem that lie would ship the I bullion to Washington and pel. il eonI verted into cash. Ifc and I lie two j Jones would pet $3,500 each while the Adams woman would get $3,000, ho | said. I Need for Ready Cash. : The government. Reverend Woo re took pains to explain, would have to j have n little advance money for eon or UUL IKI.YIIIVIIta - vow that salesman save up the direst of color combinations to sell to unsuspecting women. "I want something, well?er?you know, something pretty, but not too gay," she says, as she pores over a tray of gold flowers or an orchid background, or while polka dots as large as pennies on purple. And somehow or other she selects a. wide tie for the man who wears a slender one and a. shoestring effect for the man who wears his wide. Often, oh. iiow often, after the ties have been chosen, she takes one. with the floorwalker's consent, over to the hosiery counter to match it to socks. Most husbands and brothers and sweethearts know only too well how thej have suffered embarrasment and endured all sorts of things from purchases women have made in the men's department." ? Carriers of freight and shippers recently met in Atlanta and presented their views on the rate question. So far the shippers and carriers have ' not been able to agree on a schedule Jof rales. Both the Clerks arid Husband Undergo Torture. "I always duck behind n pillar and hide when I see a man and his wife come into the department together," said the clothing salesman,to ayeporter for the New York Sun. "For when a man comes to buy a suit and brings his wife along its hours and hours, before the sale is completed. She holds the material to the light and rumples it in her fingers. She makes her husband slip on vest and jacket and strut before her. She complains about the price and the fit and the color. "She keeps telling her husband he looks too old or too young and she insists on humiliating the salesman with her scornful glances and scorning every word he utters. She knows what Iter husband ought to wear and why, and oven the head of the department can offer her no advice or no worth while suggestion. "But in the end, when husband and salesman are nearing exhaustion, she says: 'Buy it if you want to?oh, very well, buy it if you must.' And husband buys. "Some women know how to shop any buy for men, but they are usually mothers of men. Most sisters, sweethearts and friends are decidedly poor shoppers, and while they tire the salesmen, taking the joy out of their lives, it is much joy they afford the inen who happen to be buying in the department at the same time. "There's the matter of tics. Most men who have received ties as gifts - ' 1'i-fnn the fair sex he find Peter and Peter's wife and Mattic Adams would 6e sitting on the tvorld in a few days and'now for Peter,to go back home and have his wife prepare a big supper. "I am going to Charlotte and get mail wife and I'll be back this evening when wc will celebrate," lie explained. , Peter was willing and bidding the parson good bye and telling him that everything would be all set for the blow-out, left for home. P.overcnd Moore went out of the postoffice presumably toward Charlotte. Just where he went nobody knows. Postmaster E. E. Poag of Rock Hill J now has the letter which Peter sent off, it having been returned unclaimed. It contains a big portion of a catalogue sent out, by ^Chicago llrm known as Montgomery;' Ward & Co. Peter and Cross Roads Church and detectives arc keen to find a right black negro who when last seen wore a Prince Albert coat, black trousers, a large black hat and carried a small black handbag. / . WHEN WOMAN BUYS verting the bullion into cash. Then .again the stuff had to be shipped and in order that prompt service be rendered it would be necessary to slip a piece of money into the hands of a government representative in Columbia. he explained. Peter Jones informed Reverend Moore that he was a poor man and had no money: but the Reverend came hack with the statement that since Peter was treasurer of Cross Roads church and had some church funds in his keeping he was sure that it would he all right to use this money for the nqcessary expenses since it could he paid hack in a few days with big interest. , He and Peter came to Rock Hill and there Peter drew from a bank the $240 placed to his credit as treasurer of the church. Then they dropped over to the postoffice where the Reverend had Peter to address an envelope, putting his return address thereoii. Peter then put the $240 in an envelope which he left unsealed. s Then Moore asked him to step over to the registry window and buy a reg-1 istry stamp while he held the envelope in which was the- money. While Petpr's back was turned Reverend Moore played his last trump by abstracting the sheath of bills and placing in th^ envelope instead some leaves cut from a catalogue the same size as currency. The letter was then turned over to Peter who afrixed the stamp and dropped the letter in the receptacle placed for them. ^ ^ Was Coming Back. Slapping Peter on, the hack, the Reverend said something about how INSTRUCTION FOR GIRLS ! Slhi Fifty Young Ladies Attend Three Day Home Demonstration. t . \ HELD JIT YORKVILLE GRADED SCHOOL : . \ ! Hard Rains Did Not Interfere With Programme?Girls Hear Instructive Lectures and See Practical Demonstrations in Domestic Work?Yorkvilie People Give Hearty Co-operation?May Become an Annual Affair } for County Seat. Fifty young ladies of York county, members of various home demonstration clubs throughout the county, arrived. in Yorkville, Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning to attend the three. day short course for Home Demonstration Club Girls, held at the Yorkville Graded school.. The school comes to a close this afternoon when the final session will be held and the young ladie^ will return to their respect '-" homes. It was the Idea to house t . students in tents and three army pyramidal tents and a large tent borrowed from the York County Fair Association were pitched on the school grounds Tuesday afternoon by a local committee. Because of the fact' however, that the weather was very threatening Tuesday night and \ the floods came Wednesday morning, it was decided to move the students into the Graded School building for quarters and Wednesday afternoon the halls in the building had the'appear ~ o rmv hon-flflfq ivhilp cillCti UL (X lC^Uiai cu uiji one of tho rooms in the basement had been converted into a cook room where the experts in charge of the short course gave the girls instructions in cooking. The short course- held for home demonstration workers this week was Lhc. first e.ver held in Yorkville, anu because of the large attendance and the hearty co-operation given by locai | townspeople it was stated Wednesday I afternoon by Hiss Juanita Neely, York County Woman's Home Demonstration agent in charge that it might hereafter be an annual affair. Praise for Yorkville. "L have never ha'd finer co-opcratjon in my work anywhere than that given me here," said Miss Neely in speaking of the work. "People have been prompt to give us any assistance -that wa might need. Local merchants have been very very generous and the people of tiic town generally have manifested much interest and given us such a hearty welcome that it has proveo an inspiration to us. My assistants in this work, myself and all of the girls in attendance appreciate very highly the reception accorded us here." It was suggested by the county home demonstration agent that it. was possible that another year arrangements would be made with the county farm demonstration agent whereby members of the Roy's clubs of the county might co-operate with the girls in the institute and a programme providing for work of both boys and girls in a three day short course be made. That however, is a matter for the future. The girls attending the three day institute began to arrive shortly after diner Tuesday and the directors were busy registering them and collecting supplies and getting every thing settled for their, entertainment and comfort. A picnic lunch was served at 7 o'clock and at 8 o'clock the visitors were given a formal welcome by Mayor i v a ri;til sind a committee of York- | villc people. Wednesday. The girls were up bright and early Wednesday morning eager to get to work. Morning watch was conducted by Rev. E. E. Gillespie, D. D. at 7.15. Lectures were made and demonstrations were given during the morning by Mesdames Clowney and Stribling, hrtme demonstration workers of Fairfield and Cherokee counties respcctive-> ly. The girls were also addressed by Supt. of Education John E. Carroll and Superintendent E. A. Montgomery of the Yorkvil'c Graded school. Miss Laura Bailey, assistant state home demonstration agent gave a demonstration in sewing Wednesday afternoon and Miss Lola Snider of the state home .demonstration forces addressed, the girls on "How to Act at the Table." The visiting young ladies were also taken on a sight-seeing trip of the town and surrounding community. Yesterday. TVTnrninir watch vestcnlay morning wns conducted liy Rev. J. K. Walker, pastor of Trinity Methodist church. Miss Lola Snider gave another demonstration and the club girls heard a lecture on health by Dr. M. J. Walker of Yorkville. After dinner yesterday more demonstrations were given by Mcsdamcs Clowncy and Slrib'iug. Miss Snider and Miss Bailey. After supper last evening the girls were entertained at the movies. Today's Programme. Rev. .T. L. Gates, D. D. conducted morning watch this morning. Miss Lola Snider gave a demonstration in the making of Salads. Miss Laura Bailey lectured on "What Shall I Wear?" and Dr. W. M. Kennedy of Yorkville lectured on "Care of the Teeth." The general public was invited to the several sessions of the short course and numhers of people, especially ladies, availed themselves of the oppor was made good, and Constantinople become Stamboul and the. cliurch of Sancta Sophia a Mohammedan- haos- (que. "The Ismid of today has little to remind the observer of its glorious history. An old Greek acropolis flanked by Roman and Byzantine towers is about the only remaining link with its opulent past. The iron and wood caravans of the Bagdad railway do not need to pause in Ismid < as did the camel trains, and its toll from commerce has dwindled away. To it the world no longer looks either for creeds ( of the treasures of Araby?only for a modest supply of silk cocoons, tobacco, * and forest products." t ? R. J. Thompson, comptroller of the Hormel Packing company, of Austin, Minn., was arrested Monday on a warrant signed by H. A. Corey head ol' the employment department of the company, charging Thompson with appropriating a $10,000 check, the property of. the Hormel Packing company, which he deposited to the account of the Oakdale Farm, owned by him. Thompson, according to announcement by the company, has admitted mis-appropriations aggregating' $150,000. He has been with the com7 pany ton years. Accountants, assisted * by Thompson continued todaj# .their investigation of the packing.'i-company's books. Heavy investments in the highly developed poultry u.an?. pure bred cattle farms have been made by Thompson in recent years. His electric fan system for driving flies from the cow barns to their death in. a a gas filled chamber and steam, heated pig barn had attracted much attention. drew a sentence of one year and one flay. He is at present serving his sentence in the famous Georgia pen?for Ills health! There is probably more philosophy than penitence in Jesse Black's act. ? Stating that what he said might he reason for impeachment, Federal Judge K. M. Land is, in an address before wounded soldiers at Fort Sheridan, Wednesday, denounced the foes of the Soldier's bonus bill and asserted that if he were president he would "tire the whole outfit" at Washington, who were "getting in one another's way trying to pass on the veterans' compensation proposition. "As one man who stayed at home in peace and security while you fellows were fighting for our lives," said the judge, "I am against stalling off "this bonus proposition." shining1. When ne went, ne nau uaum trouble. He had spent everything he I had in doctor bills and he never im-ij proved. After entering the Atlanta, prison lie was put under the care of a doctor. After, serving his term he returned home a well man; as well as any man. 1-Ie said he wouldn't take $1,000 for his trip. They had cured him without charge and if he hadn't gone he probably wouldn't have e%*er | been cured and he was spending all his money on doctor bills. | "I have spent everything I ever made on my health. I'm no better. My folks will get along just as well, if not better, without me. They might fix mo up in that Atlanta prison.. So, T want to take a chance." Darnell, according to Mr. Blaylock, when he was sentenced pleaded for mercy on the ground that he, was a sick man, suffering with a chronic thr&at trouble. But the law took its course. At any rate Mr. Blaylock went to Judge Webb and told him there was a man in ^cotirt who wanted to plead guilty of illicit distilling and was very anxious to make the journey to AtlanI ta. The judge, naturally enough, was surprised. He had heard many a mancry for mercy when a prison sentence was being announced, but seldom, If ever, had he heard of a man actually pleading for the comforts of a penitentiary. Jesse appeared before the judge and narrated his story. As a result he ine naniiuu puotviuuu ovuvivh) the Ashe-Wilkes boundary line, made his entry unostentatiously?no officer escorted him?into the beautiful little mountain town: Having been a deputy marshal not many decades ago Mr. Blaylock knew Jesse Black. ! ."Well, Jesse, what, are you doing down here?" asked Mr. Blaylock. "Oh, J'm into it now," replied Jesse, unregrettingly. "What seems to be the trouble?" interrogated the clerk. . i "I'm indicted?for moonshining. And I want to plead guilty and go to the Atlanta-prison." Mr. Blaylock was a bit non-plussed. He knew something of Jesse's career ?he was .an epileptic. He had no idea the court would send Black to prison even if he were guilty of illicit distilling. The clerk was for forgetting he affair. But Jesse was insistent? he was'yearning for prison life. In order to strengthen the case?not Tor liberty but for detention?Jesse Black unfolded a story which convinced Mr. Blaylock that the man was sincere in hi3 stand. His story to the federal clerk reads about as follows: "Well, you see Herbert Darnell once was sent to Atlanta prison for. moon - - ?- * - U- J tunity, feeling that there was much that they could learr. Following were the young ladies in attendance: Margaret Farris, Margaret Neely, Mattie Swinnie, Maud Swinnie, Bessie Jackson, Sarah Jackson, Isabel Jackson, Margaret Adklns, Francis Glenn, Frances Martin, Jeannette Lunfpkin, Nannie Craig Barnctt, Ethel Covington, Ruby Hayes, Pearl Hayes, Katnleen Berry, Newport; Mary J. Steele, Cornelia Steele, Mazel Setzer, Lytle Hoagland, Grace Hoagland, Bessie Edards, Sherwood Cannon, Connie Warner, Annie Warner, India Hook; Willie Mae Russell, Mary Barnes, Francis Harshaw, Agnes Love, McConnellsville; Beulah Morris, Mattie May Whitesides, Annie Lee .Whitesides, Thelma. Pratt, Helen Kennedy, Adeline Rainey,' Eveline Erwin, Sallie Scott Erwin, Bryte Sherrer, Ruth Whisonant, Sharon; Mozelle Neely, Elizabeth Neely, Bobbie Neely, Denie Littlejohn, Louise Wallace, Isabel Patterson, Lu cille Howe, Emma Hope, Oak Ridge; Mary Hope, Carrie Hope, Edith Williams, Beth-Shiloh; Misses Alberta Garrison and Edith Farls, Ro.ck Hill K. F. D., assistants. / PLEADS FOR PRISONER North Carolina Mountaineer Believes Health Will be Benefitted. Thousands upon thousands of shekels have been expended by people in these United States of America in attorney fees in an effort to side step the portals of penitentiaries, bastiles, and other places of inca-ceratlon, relates the Greensboro, (N. C.) News. That much will doubtlessly go unchallenged. But rare, indeed, is the man who actually pleads with , Hizzoner to transport him to a penitentiary or any other other place for confinement. . Luther Blaylock, the w. k. clerk of the federal court for the western district of North Carolina, tells an egregious tale and swears to its verity. W^hile Judge E. Yates. Webb was holding federal court in Wilkesboro not long ago Jesse BIdck, a resident of 11 ennfinn TIOI r HISTORIC CITY OF ISMID 8! Scene of Man; Struggles for World fi Mastership. ONCE CAPITAL OF EASTERN iB^iE || , ' : -fe Population Has Dwindled Becausi^of.? ; Filling of Harfaors-^-lron Horse;'$?W Does the Work of the Picturesque-,'.;> Camel. . , ;r > , "The name of the town .qf^j8mw,:... whore tVio rpppnt rpfrftflt' of forces made possible an attack on Constantinople by the Turkish onalists and raised . the first gravy / ^ threat of drawing other European - ^ powers into the fray, would haveV'ap-^^ peared many times in heavy black headlines if the modern'newspaper had existed throughout historic says a bulletn issued by the National Geographic society from its Washington, D. C. headquarters. \ V' "Ismid's once Important harbor:;Is ^ now silted and its population is bare- /iggj ly 20,000. But before Constantinople ^ was enlarged , by Constantine the ' Great, 'ismid?then j NicomedJa?was . for a tlrafe the capital of the Roman v-i Empire and the metropolis of the Near East. \ , , / Once Great Caravan Port. "Situated at the head of the .'Gulf.of- r-r?;; .Ismid, which forms the sharp Asiatic : end of the Sea of Marmora, and.with high ground behind it, the town, lay in the route of the natural highway from- Syria,- Persia, Mesopotamia and ' %$ the entire Near East to the BosportmA-? and Europe. In the old days camel/] ;. .' caravans innumerable carrying /the 1 r** * V"'-.A. riches of the East plodded around the . end of the gulf, paused to pay com-'#*? mercial tribute to vthe stmt?gi(^ly^j. situated city, and continued along the low coast of the gulf for^t$je?/?; 50 miles that separated iNicbmed)& \:?; from Byzantium and^ now; separete>?s^ . mid from Constantinople. Ann; when the steel highway and''iron horse1 were to connect Berlin* and r; Bagdid . come to replace the m'ore pictures/iue but less efficient camel'/ahdl; his' buBtyi'- fS road, the same natural' path ized and' Ismid became a railway'^sta^ tion. < . :. 1 . 1 . . , V - "Darius and his hosts. swarmed J\# 'through the site of the present Ismid .five hundred years. before phrst,. to "V~s; bridge -the' BosporuRvjaafc.' ^conquer ^ Thrace and Macedonia Xenophon and his ten thousand /Greeks-passed .through the place in their memorable retreat from Persia to their . home, iff Near there the defeated Hannibal; refugee ' from the Romans, committed >' suicide; and in a villa close by Constantine the Great- died.' .Force after .' force of Crusaders held the town dur-V V ing the middle ages. Seat of Constantino the Great , "From Nicomedia Diocletian direct-i < ed his implacable campaign of perae?' cution against the Christians and later. : V the first Christian emperor, Constan-' tine, governed from its palaces. Barely twenty'miles to the south at Nicea the Church council sat which framed " the Nicene Creed;'and only a short ., distance to the west on the Ismtd peninsula in 451 A. D. was held the ec-": clesiastical assembly from which tlie Armenians bolted to form the separ- A ate Armenian church, which, with the Roman Catholic, the Greek Catholic and the Protestant churches helps : make up the four major divisions of. Christianity. "History is closely repeating itself at Ismid. Just as the Turkish Nationalists drove the modern Greeks froth ihe town in recent weeks, so lfl/781 we Moslems, pushing far into the "Asiatic territory of the Byzantine Greeks, .ide^ feated their armies at Nicomedia^ahd camped on the east bank of thte'Bdkporus. The Empress Irene ransomed the city and the other occupied terri? tory. But the Mohammedans slowly encroached and in 1338 Nicomedia'fell permanently into the hands of the Turks. It remained a threat to Constantinople until 1453 when the threat