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LaI VjJ ' [?i ^ n- T1 SEMI- WEEKLY l. m. grist's sons, Publisher,. $ ^'iiiiiilii Jleirspapor: or'or Hit jJromotion of lite political, Social, Jgricullui;al and O'omnicrrial interests of (he people. ' ^er"^"copt,EpitkNcests*NCE established is.",5 YORK, S. C.. l''l! i:DA.Y, OCTOBER 7,19'21. _N_ NO, 80 ; VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Somo You Don't Know?Condensed] For Quick Reading, llright young business woman of Camden was talking the other day! about crop conditions in Kershaw county. "We arc practically done picking cotton in Kershaw," she said, i "and 1 toll you it is a mighty short crop down there. I have a position in a bank and I am in position to know. I The boll weevil has curtailed the crop I like everything and the lack of use of fertilizer has cut it still more. It isn't si very good prospect for big business in Kershaw county this I'a'l and nmst merchants and other business mcn| seem to realize it." Little Loafing Nov/. Dry goods clerk o!' leng years of experience was talking the other dry. "Funny," said ho, "how custom; change. For instance, people, just lots, cf people, used to loaf in the stores. I *'p until a few years ago it was custom to find a number of people looting around in almost any stcre. Hut you hardly ever ?cc that r.ow. Did you ever notice it?" Road Work Held Up. J. IJ. Whitesides, superintendent < f the fouih road who was in Yorkvillc, the other day said that road work l?c- j tween Clover and the <Jaslon county! line had been suspended lor wic pre*- j nt. "We have practically completed I al! madinpr work," said Mr. Whitesidcs. "Itccause of the demand for the services of cotton pickers it has been d< cid'd to release our road franpx for a while in order that they mh;ht k<> into the fields." A Peculiar Custom. "Was up at Mooresville, X. ! which is near Statesville, a few d ?y> afro," remarked a Ilullock's Creek man. "Had to make a trip out in the country. The weather wasn't as cool as it j is now ami tiic* .Mooresville man who was with mo n:'k<d m< if I didn't want some ioo cream. And I wanted to | know how in the world we were going to get ice cream away out there in the country. 'Why,' said he, 'every fa rim r in this country keeps ice cream far sa'e in the summei time. We will st p at the next farm house and I'll shov. you.' Well,"we st< ;?i? d and we g'<t e cream. I didn't learn how it comes; that a'most ail the farmers up that way are in the ice cream business; but I was convinced that such is the c ist?.'" Bobbed Hair. "Well." remarked a it nek Hill man about town the other day, "the bobbed hair craze has struck this tor. a with a bump. The girls : re jn.-t coing daffy about cutting off their blond" and dark lorks and wearing them in this horrible boblied hair style. The barbers say are doing : rushing business. \\\ men and girls front iif- j teen to thirty and even some of more advanced age/ are guillotining their, hitir. Some of Ym real s'ort; others si little longer. Some sire wearing it in orris. Some just straight. "Some 11?>?-k liill mothers. sifiaid tlisit tin ir (Istiightrrs will slip ;i harhiTslmp ami lave ii out off uithout their knowledge hsive warm-I el: iho Ivi.hers not to out iff daughter's lis*i?* upon pain. of dire as: om-.u's. Y"s. sir the lmbl-ed Iriir hrigai' Ian 1; lfi'1 is growing ? ry day." Cli iscd by a Cull. "Went 'p sni hunting tin- other r.i."ht," raid Si Yorkviife man. "in I tic party wore * vvrsii white men ami several negroe.; and a num'.nr of d ; Tli<- trail led out hy i'.iiok's mill pond and linstlly wo got into a past in i wln-iv N. S. IJloel; ki p.~ : ? :.. had - i * ! it , , t i . i I I v..If. I'll- l.l III . j- I'HiM early in th<- in nuiniT wlion we in I lust pisiure, ami t'm l> ill evidently <1 i<!:i*t like '.' i<i :i < . In-iny; <1!:.tIIrl?* ?I. Ill- imiiii a! in* of <"ii |mrt\ Willi :i r?i;ir ;:11<I a In IN v\ . :nI tin Wiiv mil in<*i: ami li'.;raced through Ihnl imsturc ami aevuss a >;{i*Ih i 1 wic ft n ? was ; caution. Luckily all <>l us ; >1 a\. ly v iilvnu tIt lii:it any of nr. I nn- I : i "possum lum'inK I tim : >Ir.y to s?i r sliy of ilial |nsHni ." Seeing is Believing. a lit tli.. li ill \voi-\ ; I ??l| '".ill !?".%?? ... .. . ami li I* ii In people talk :.!><iiii it as much us you want to," said Jieputy Sheriff ! >. T. Quinn, "but you ioa"ly ran't eret much of an idea that way. If you waul to ,i.< t a sum enough itl?-a of tho holl weevil, you must s<k> him at work, or rather whore ho has be< n working. I would not like to say how much lioll weevil stuff I have read limine,' the past twenty yiars: hut I In li vo it would fill se veral volutin s. Cut when I saw wis re the wwil had j horn opera iimr down about ('ohinihia, and o\.r toward C?xin--;ton, not lona I was as nricli astonish* d as 11 i had never before la nil of tin- tiling." "Thai's right," broke in Ki |?rrs< : ;alive K. \V. I'ursJey. ' ! >id ymi ev?r notice that line land near Killian's? It used to In* good for :ilioi!t two bn'e:. ! cotton to l'ie tic e. and when -siiiv. there on the train Jim I:-amgu.ii J ;;ti I us. d to agree i;h i irj <. f 11 . :.s ; how some of these days v.e \\ i u!d like to settle down oil sonie of thai land and take life easy, hit' lime is . i*dhi::;r to surge I aiivtliin likv that any more J I was d<>wn that way not Ions ago and I tin-re is still the stalk: but not a b to be found anywhere. You are sure right win n you s ty you cannot get an idea of the boll weevil by reading about it. You've got to sec it." Decline in Dooze. "At retail prices prevailing twelve | months ago that barrel of corn liquor I poured out by Sheriff Quinn and Con- , dable Johns* n last Thursday would I have been worth $-.400," said a pro- ; hibition officer who did a little calm-J latin}; for Views and Interviews the i other day. "At Ity' time it was poi.r- : or oat it was worth aliout *500. So j you see ho <zo like real eclat e and a lot of other things has dropped wondcrfirtly in the past year, l'rom what information I am able to got." the of- j fleer went on to say, "moonshine liquor sells for about $100 a gnl'oii in j gallon lots now. It is said that it can ho bought in Lincoln county and ; I!ink counties in Xoilh Carolina for about $3 a gallon and a (Icoryia man to v.horn I was talking the other day "aid that in come sections of (leorjjia one could buy all that one wanted for J $2 a gallon. The (leorgia man went on to say that liquor has gotten so ' "heap in CJeorgia that a lot of mix?n:;hin< rs have quit business because there is nothing in it anymore." Will Have Their Way. "When a pair of youngsters take a notion to m t married the old folks might as well let them have their way," said the other day it young bushe .-s mar. of Ilork 11iII. who told tie', tory: "Some time > it v.i II Known young | follow of I took Hill and a nice lad la-j is. fell in love with a young lady of | Columbia who was attending Win- j tHrop Coih g ". It was a short court- I ship and they wore head over heels in j love anil there's no i;se to say any j more al nut that. 'Well the jonntf lad>'s lather ?li?ln't j like this boy and didn't fail to let him know it. Of course that made the yiri I love him all the more because of Iter < fa tin t'V li eatim nt. "On one oevsion the father, a rath- ! er hard-boiled old fellow, inwle.l t h ' vol'*- .* fellow out while he was eaUim: >:t 1 is daughter in the fathers horn in Columbia. He said seme hard ! thines to the younyatii and finally the I > could . tr-nd it no lanircr and t?<M i kiui in t!i" pailor of his house, 'You can niv those things to me because i you are in your own home and you j ( ::i order me out; but you can't come i up !:> my hotel and say it and trot I avhv villi It.' "'I'!:i l i lie r c \ id till) both ve.l it b< - 1 ; l.e didri't ,-,'o to t!i" VouilU f I I - : !o\,': hot 1; but th< trirl who had wit i?s:ed the sci tie mrinn,T< 1 to whisper j to the miiiiv; llo-.'k Ilill man. 'The, text tini" you come to Columbia i rn i home v. ith you.' and the younsr- , .'tor replied, 'Well I'll come for >on any time you think you can yet away! from llicia.' "Will, a rl lift tinf afterward the-! it!' 1.11:', .* lad to yo to l.atta, S. : "!i hnsiness an 1 h< r mot lit r tin' same ltv v. as out with friends. About ? ! 'clock that tflcrnoon the fit! 'phoe.ed I I ho hoy in 11' ck lii'.l V : t t! e m,! t was icir if !t coni'l reach Columbia l.y 5. : friend he cot in his fiivvcr .- *r 1 at o'clock roiled Into Columbia. The trill ? 11 the pair at her house. Sin- * : iii< runninir out, her arms fni"! of riot lies. yd ill I lie car ami off tlir> I'iito! to Camden where the.v were , m.ir.ii'1. The lather <>f ih yirl pro* ;'i ! a little than was espc-l i . i! learned from the an-vant win' c I I . ; ;>eni d. wired the ah riffs of !<?. 'a.'. \*e wherry, t "heater, Vo k anil in yl.i- t m ry .-1 ei ji'C i-r all I know to : re : t tin mi. Th la rir <>i K< rItaw court} of which Caimlen is the I count; seal -o| h': i n : ; u" aft- r t'i ; wiie i i it il iml ili?l i oi 'h tain liif-n. So after a wtddinr: trip the.v rottivi e., to ?:< el. Ili',1 and the} are living hep. m ? ap; aii :i'!y a happy as jntiebuy?. "Tin- ni'iilnr of the yd I has forgiven in ilandili r and kissed her soii-iuI iv.. *! 1 e |; titer is Mill sore about ii . ml nfii-i t. t<> even ;.p< ik to them. 'I'll'", eolleilliei! tile yoiltlK l'lll I in - man win wn. (elany tin- -lory. Ii ennie aloni ti. oil y d I Ii eiloll ' : <.v. I ' e-in < | did -i siniiiar r mi t win II i ,Tni liliM rie?l." \ V/OMAM GETS ROUGH Andys mi Dlietl Tigress Tried to Fight Officers. 'I.>I ii - * iiflVnsi' :ii inninir :i niniiit il < 1 !i.|ii<.i i, piu'.viI from l.i r liiiiiif Sill:- , ?! ?>' ; i; Ali< lli-nson. colored. * .-i' ant!) iv.on, seiso-d mi in>n looker i f'l'oin I lie in.i iti I, : i! 1 mlvniii'i il onOI'li i i-: l.:i\vt<ii) M<ir<lilli jhkI Will Kay, M'.l.isllil::: :i jiitf #?r* colli l.ilcilld ill lip'' hjiip's ni' one 11 " tl<<' oJTicrs. and, to |?iil : :: end (<t tin- ;i tivitir.s of. tin- infuriated wnmnn, Deputy Meredith was f<<r<- i| t<> slio't. the luilh t cateriiiK llie jinn i<n<l riiii-rPrr ilnoimh tii" client. 'I'll- woman now :11 the An<" rvon County I ! <-;? i it I. when* pliy i t-i:111; s.iy s 111 has :i g;ood chance to rci-nv.-r iII c;im- pIll'iniK'llijI does no* ?!< v plop. '!'ln 1 >t: 11* t pinii'tiir< <1 on.- < f her li :p\s. Tin1 offici iv received reports of li ijilrtf iii ill:- nloilr.l :i 1 the Wi lli ill's linns", toil i in, -oedeiI to search tin I "-mis \ ?|ii:iu' > ? !' !i<|iior u, s folintl, ; < 11 : . || ff i<"? IH \V?*IV I'." | il ii.." Ii> t ft- . < i;ii' iii|t;or 11: \\ < -111. !! ' i -M: ' ; liiii.se. sii<- l><au;ill IVItlot: * it ii l!|? IcSlllt tl.ilt sir \ .. . fun ! to til; - .1 iWlo in sn am .. lanci1 i1 ic 1 of the touring ear tli". or . I ECONOMIC READJUSTMENT Turmoil in Lnyiand Amounts to Revolution. ~ ECONOMIC LIFE IS BADLY SHAKEN Country Torn to Pieces by War Is Now On Basis of Reorganization in Ac-, cordance With Present Status Net Yet Ascertained. l.onnon, (icioocr i.?iiniain is hi involution anil has been almost since the' day of the armistice?revolution curi- J ous, actua', but not war. One phase of revolution indicates it- ! self through the fact that many of the j great, historical estates have been dis-"* integrated by impossible taxation.1 Mritish society has been built upon the land-owning basis. The passage of j these great estates from the possession of the ancient aristocracy to others will' produce a social fabric of the I'ritish aristocracy; it won't destroy it hut will ; tend towards its destruction. Hut the most obvious revolutionary episodes aiv those of t ic great strikes and those of the demonstrations of the unemployed. lioth have been very vocal .actually threatening .although it is:1 cal, actually threatening, although it is of the unemployed here is not larger than in the United States. Out of the turmoil several basic facts seem to emerge. Out' is liial in'.' WOrKOr soui'-wnai nan learned tp distrust the strike as an] universal weapon. He has seen it fail, I reacting on liiin, many times within the] last few years. Vast Strike Lcsces. Strike losses since the war li ivc been huge. The strike at Southampton caused a wapre loss of 1,000.000 pounds. ' The coal dispute cost a wage loss of L'O.OOO.OOO pounds, 13.500.000 pounds deficit in railway receipts, ?13.000,000 in un< mplovnr nt pay and between 40,ooo.ooo and 50,000,000 pounds in loss of export trade. Another matter of importance is that all alike, have learned to hate the "dole** or weekly payments to the uncmp'oyed from government funds, as | an admission of national incompetence, | a confession that Englishmen through! active industry and well-earned wages) cannot do business at a profit, paying all bills self-rtspeetingly. Workmen j and politicians join all others in re- | grot ting this. Unemployment, thei fore, is held to l?e not uncomfortable, merely, but a . t:r'n on Hritish pride. Still it ? \ists u.'d the very fact that :t is a sign of iueompi t< net* adds to the bitterness of tints who suff r from .it, directly or indircct'y. And the Hritish workmen, like all other honest, physically fit men, worth while, hates charily. Tln se things cause profound unrest ; tHidoiihU dly and this is being stimulat- [ <'d by the agitation, foreign" and domestic. Thousands of good English-j men regard with envy the drastic) rn? tiiods which, from time to tim -. have hem applied in the United States to rad'eals. IJut here per:? inal liberty is a. religion. The soiidest conservatives. whi'v hating what a radical 0 might say, stil! use their lists in Hyde Vark of a Sunday to help ccmhat a police at;? mp! to stop him saying it.) England is par excellence the land ol' personal liberty, a fact made safe b> Iter comparatively coherent population. I Amazsd by National Bad Management. Personally I boli -vc the cry is. now, not so much thai of i evolutionists as, thi' !<?11 1 ?pe ry of the it11? rlv surprised who li'id tii'it I'.ritish business nun.ig< :n? lit, private ami governmental, dm s not I.now how really to meet < m< rg ney. Who have la-en and who are now our business managers? is a ipicrj very general in Priti.sh minds. of eotir. e, tlte answer must he: The polit ieians. We|', since they fail, why not turn' tin in til ? is the H-ji-inil'T. in t!i? midst id' iiin inpayment riots1 .11!<I 'doles" In jobless wliicli impose a truly fi i:;lnI'd li'iril' ii ?-ti Hi * taxpayer j fli:;i ipiery i. i hopHu! sin.i. Tlii- dun-. Kir in it lie tlinl if ii .oonipelenee is misted i 'di? ilis.ii will i . y for its plaee. And tin- oM-limo politicians, if tlit-y j nr.mini' i > >. ! in still ill linns induce ihi- im uji'i' in accrjit in uineiiv; iiiK ns! business 11sin.in' ini nt. Tin- "Anl i-\V:is te" earnpa inn holds many |? i it's uf lliis. "I inn AntiWaste!" is nil a politician needs ?l !: c in iji i tin- vo'n-s, no mat tar what i ) his ri eord may he. Itut i i l'taiii things have lit en r renin plished. Tin ilritish wurkman eortainly di-likes th strike, the dn'c, the was-1 tirs; that tnueh has been learned, lie j is lienitniin/f to distrust the Anti-WustI'l'S, too. ^ 'Who, then, dots lie trust? No urn. under heaven at the present in unent. Hut ise I.as faith. This faith explains tin- tact that the revidution now t xistir.;c atiioi'.^r in my thousands, defying lneal governments and the ee inomie! law probably is nut spreading. Must idisel'Vel s I' id slight fear that j this will ?;i ?w into a national thins1, j An overwhclniir.K number of IJrilish workers arc dissatisfied with th( is- u nii il sdn inc of siivc'inineul: radical a ;itat.>rs make ilicm bate tn|il<>ycrs. ; jiiKJililj. Ii'il I think, cannot inal; -ihcnij .1 ... ........ii J<:tl? HU' 1!..^. I ??l J.-,* nn.u ?' .. >; f;ir I::i\ mil liri-ii vil li ilotal ni inil'cMations a:i* imuitni ..11 >lt*. I'ncniploynii'.'H him lit ; .111 liialciii;., <-hr<?ni<- ill <f. mil nf nvuiv atul nvnl-j in?r drunkards. Supported by the publie purse men do not look for work. There is no Volstead act in England, and though the hours for liquor sale arc rigidly restricted the "open" hours see the "pubs" crowded. Unemployment makes some men and women desperate and desperate men and wo men, with access to alcohol, are not normal. Many think the government might better have subsidized industry than paid unemployment wages. It would have kept folks at work though their product was not marketable immediately. Indeed I think this is mentally agreed to genera'ly a'lhough few say it. But for the government to follow .such a course is quite impossible. Fed -by radical agitators workers would cry out against subsidies for industries? for th employers. If it had been donquickly?men and women busy would have had no time to listen to the revolutionists. F.usy employers would nave K'jpi eiiiinvjfca n/u nus; n? cisc. But Britain never does things quickly fe'o while I, personally, do not expect a revolution here, the times tru'y are full of most disquieting signs. "Class war" is headlined almost every day in almost every British newspaper. .1. It. Clynes, workers' leader, but conservative of mind (lie was Lord Ithondda's assistant minister of food) is devoting all j)is time to convincing labor that it must eschew the strike and seize the more effective political weapon. The political weapon might mean radicalism sometime, the strike means revolution now. Clynes Blames Both Profiteers and Labor. Cynen, a clear and able thinker and an advocate of orderly retrogression, blames tlie present situation on the war-rich, ignorant and therefore merciless in profit-making and on habits of war-wastage fastened on the people by an untrained o ficial class necessarily trusted during the war emergency with more than it was safe to let them ha ve. Ho blames workers for their wartime greed for wages, which, no in- ] dustry could pay ar.d live; he blames [ employers for morcilcssness when the | slump came, saying they drove men by the actual urge of hunger to acceptance of terms unjust and dreadful. Against human justice he says the labor leaders have not been the greater of the two sets of offenders, but he says that they have eq^ed. Such talk from C'ynes has great signifi ?nnce. Now what arc the evidences of revolution? 4 i won't attempt to summarize the London situation. L t me speak of one day only; 1 might select many others. At Hammersmith, a middle-class and manufacturing section, thousands of unemployed marched to the "guardians" (the board in charge of poorhouses and pauperism) demanding 3 pounds 1!) shillings weekly (at normal exchange about $19) for every workless family of six, with less for smaller families and the unmarried. When denied thry rioted. Besieged Officials in Their Offices. I'ncmployed of Woolwich when a demand for 5 pounds weekly and free rent was refused barricaded the Woolwich county's doors so that its members could not go home for two days. Th hoard had offered 15 shillings for single nu-n and women a^d childless couples with 3 pounds for man, wife and six children. At Stratford, Ley ton and Walthastow simi'nr crowds demanded 5 pounds weekly Hat for each mature man and woman idle. la Shop ditch, a typical London workman's district, men and their wives in a great throng demanded admission to the workhouse. Declaring tin ins. lvt\s to be out of work and, therefore, paupers they cried for the privileges of pauperism. Twenty-four g tting in for the night in the morning refused to work for their food and lodging. I'o'iee were called, arrests made and seven sentenced to j hard labor, amid jeers from all who eonhl g ( into the eourt room and vast crowds outside. At Poplar, also a division of London, the municipal councilors went straight soeialistie and struck, refusing to put new burdens on the people when the court required them to raise the lax rate to meet unusual London county council expenses. The mayor .,,.1 xniincilmpti were arrested.' They .submitted to arrest, but treated the police with sneering, absolute con t? nipt, which the police were in no po sit ion to resent. As they went to prison great crowds cheered the ni. One councilor delayed the officers an hour while he bathed | and had tea. Another, attending a j committee meeting iVmde them wait till it adjourned. All went to prison in the midst of :? onnLlUI .. ill, t.nnl- l ! yil'ill itc. Itlllll, ...... cigars ;md drink (though this is prohibited in prison) by the cheering populace. At Kdnv?nton, unemployed admitted to the workhouse demanded union J wages. When tin y were refused the wages th< y refused to labor, thus making of the term "worlchotis " a misnomer. 'I'he ministry of health, < which has authority) declims relief "which puts an unemployed man, very likely lazy, in as good a situation as those employed an:l working hard," declaring i font mm d on l\v-e Seven I GANTT TALKS POLITICS Reform Upheaval fs In Brief Review. THE COMING AND GOING OF TILLMAN Fierce Clash Between Opposing Elements and it3 Modifing Results on the Life of'the Slate?Batt'e May be Renewed Under Capable Leader. To understand the political revoluj tion in South Carolina. that resulted l in the triumph of Hen Tillman and the Reform faction, one must know the early history of the state and the characteristics of its people. The lower and seacoost counties were la apply settled by Cavaliers from England and Huguenots from France, the former driven to the New World by the triumph of Cromwell and the latter by the revelation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. They were brave and chivalrous p?oplo, who brought with them tn tneir new nomes a firm belief in the rule of blood and intelligence: and naturally considered themselves the chosen rulers of the >at:d. They were men of wealth and large slave-owners. Several middle counties, notably Lexington and Newberry, were settled by Dutch front Holland, a very superior race of people, staunch Protestants and strong adherents of popular liberty. The piedmont and upper counties were settled by Scotch, Scotch-Irish and a sprinkling of other nations from England and Northern Europe. The melting pot in South Carolina began its work before the Revolution, and by blending of different nationalities, a superior race of people were the result. I do not bylieve there is a section in our Republic where the inhabitants are so thoroughly American as in the old Palmetto state, or is there any part of our Union with so little alirn and Latin blood. They are brave, patriotic and liberty-loving and some of the greatest statesmen, jurists and warriors of America were South Carolinians. Ty.ree of the heroes of the .\iama, i raws, duwh <mu uuuhujh, were natives of this state. The up-country was considered a poor section with few slave owners, and it was not until after our Civil war, when the Piedmont became a teeming hive of industrial and agricultural development, that its people began to assert their power and demand an equal share iu the government of their state. He fore our civil war South Carolina was what might be termed as aristocratic government controlled by its s'avo-owning class. Under the old foi-m of government, the people elected their representatives in the legislature, which body named the state officers as also judges, congressmen and senators. And under the old ap portionmem, tno lower counucs were given a preponderating influence and controlled the legislature. For lorir years the upper counties accepted this injustice, feeling a pride in the able and incorruptible men selected to rule over them. Hen F. Perry, of Greenville, was the first man to demand ? new deal, and that more power be given the plain, common people who J populated the up-country. Hut our civil war put an end to this agitation ii'd then the reconstruction era and negro rule kept the whites united in i one solid phalanx. Hut as the Piedmont and middle counties grew in J wealth and population, their demand for increased power was renewed; especially after South Car ,Una had been raleemrd from negro and carpet bag rule. Put tho great work of Wade Hampton, M. C. Puller, .Mart Gary, and other brave and patriotic Carolinians, represent.!ling the old regime, held the people together, and when th I"), liu erats regained control of their ::tat? government the old plan of class rule was resumed. A low families dictated every office holder and they wore passed around in certain families. It was < barged that the title fo certain high officers was as inherent >s landed estates. Hen jam in It. Tillman was a piain ami unsuccessful farmer of Rdgeiieltl county, luit belonged to a highlj respected and old family. He used to peddle truck from his farm and dairy over Augusta. During the negro insurrection that was crushed ".?y the Hamburg riot, Tillman commanded a company and grained some notoriety. It is said that Tillman lost his eye from being harpooned by the tin of a oat-fish v.hile bnthi.ig in the Savannah tiver, just before our civil war. Me lint gained some notoriety by writing articles in support of the farmers' movement, then being or /janized. but was not looked upon as an orator. It is said that his first public speeches were almost failures. i lie uoain 01 c icne-un, who n, irm-u daughter ot' Jolm C. Calhoui., and who left the old C'alhoun farm and a considerable sum of money to an agricultural college, was the first spark I that started the blaze that swept over South Carolina and revolutionized the political status of the state. Tillman advocated an acceptance o<" the Clemson bequest, which the ruling element contended that the property should go 1 lii tin- direct heirs til" Mr. Calhoun. I This contention resulted in calling: the I famous .March convention in Colnm| hia, and which, to the two factions in South t'nrolina, was a repetition of what, tin- Charleston convention was to our t'nion. Tillman had pivou up all hopes of being nominated for governor, anil had left the convention hall, saying that ha would quit politics and return to his farm. But J. B. Irby held the fort and secured the nominations of Tillman. Irby told me that after the convention had acted, he found Tillman. sitting on the river bank, with head hung down and waiting for his train to leave for home. For years South Carolina was wracked by one of the bitterest and meet vindictive political campaigns thnf u'fis nvor known Families and communities were divided, and politics even invaded the churches and schools. Tho story of these eainpaigns is too recent to need recounting here. Tillman triumphed, and for years his faction absolutely controlled the politics of South Carolina. That political revolution can best be compared to the French revolution, only without its lawlessness and cruelty. Tillman was the Robespierre, Irby the Drjiton, John Gary Evans the Barnave, John L. McLaurin the Dcsmoulins, and Jasper Tolbert, Heiiot. r>ui in nine, uie leaner ui tne victorious faction began to quarrel over a division of honors and like unto the Girondists of France, Irby was the first to fall under the political guillotine, worked by Tillman., Irby never ceased to denounce Ben Tillman for treachery and ingratitude. Other reformers went, one by one, to the execution, unti' of the old organizers of the reform movement Tillman was alone left in power. Cole Blease, for a time, attempted the role of the Little Corsican, but he met his Waterloo at St. Helena, and not\even a weeping willow was planted to mark his political grave. After several political dog-falls, the old regime again came into power in the person of Gov. Manning. The Blease faction, the offspring of Tillmonism but repudiated by him, was without a leader and went to pieces. Gov. Manning, like unto Ix>uis XVIII, gave way to the mild reforfner, Go*-. Cooper, who today holds the reins cf power. It was a repetition of the de throning of Louis XV III and placing on his throne a son of 9, man who voted in the convention for the execution of Louis XVI. This is the situation today in South Carolina. * There is a truce between the old jvarring faction, and both sides are resting on their arms, one afraid to challenge the other. It would be a very great misfortune for the state to have a renewal of the bitter and vindictive political contests that characterised the early years of tho reign of Tillmanism. But I find a restlessness among tho plain people, and if they had a leader no one can predict the result. T5ut in spite of its warm-blooded people and bitter factional contests, the state continues to grow in wealth and power. The Piedmont counties with their large white population, hold the balance of power in the state and can dictate its politics when the people decide to organize and assert their strength at the ballot-box. ENVYING THE MEN It's a Favorite Feminine Pastime An Oregon Paper Finds. Women are difficult to understand. Kipling "wrote a great deal on the i subject and has given to his readers some supposed authentic information. Close women friends were visiting. The hostess reclined as she related her tale: "I'm a wreck," (familiar word, ! that), she said. "I've been shopping j all day trying to gel together some kind of wardrobe. I haven't a decent ' gown to my name." And she proved it by displaying to her friends a closet full of morning, afternoon and evening apparel. "Wouldn't it be wonderful to be a man," was her closing ! statement. "All they do is order a couple of suits and get an occasional haircut." In another home. The woman of the house entertained her caller thus, as she sat slumped in a rocker: "I'm exhausted. Spent the entire day cleaning this miserable house, I did not have a clcn? closet and I had to get in and dig." And she exhibited row after row of spotless brass and glass | and beautiful china in her white i kitchen and her whole house radiated I cleanliness such as could 'never have ' been the result of but one clay's work. ! "I wish I were a man," she groaned. "Just o go to the office, do a little figuring and come home again."?Poitluiul Oregonian. , m , HUSBAND IS MASTER I Michigan Court Rules He is Responsible for Misdeeds of Wife. The .Michigan supreme court laid clown the rule that a husband is mas tor of his own homo and is guilty of law violation if his wife with his | knowledge transacts illegal business i in the home. The decision was given in affirming a lower court.verdict convicting John Sydisloo. of Bterrien county, of violating tho prohibition law. Testimony was introduced at the trial to show his wife purchased a still, installed it in I the basement of the home and sold th<> i liquor. t The supreme court in ruling Sydisloo was properly held as a defendant in the ease declared the "husband is the head of the family and has the right at common law to regulate his household, its tiKpenses and visitors and to exercise the general control of the family management." WHAT ABOUT THt HUH ? Pnhiin ittlhide Toward the Humble I Canine. DOGS ARE ENTITLED TO FAIR DEAL This Writer Thinks That Sentiment' Toward Dogs is Not at All Credits* ble to Public Sentiment. (Estelle Aubrey Brown, in "Our Dumb Animals.") Ever since the World War began to i make demands on the American people to save food, we frequently see and hear opinions expressed similar to the fo'lowing quoted from an Idaho Indian journal: ^ "We presume even a dog may have its place in the wotid, but it is beyond our capacity to understand the need fr\y t onimola * * * WnrthlMA dogs consuming good food when there is not sufficient in the world to feed the human race. * Chickens and pigs are good food for man, but the dog is worthless. Why not be-r come a little more practical? Kill ths dogs and raice sheep, chickens, pigs and other useful animals. The big dog and the little dog, the old dog and the young dog, should be condemned and executed and the food sent to the starving women and children, who will be very grateful for It. Number the dogs and do your duty." Since our friend with the intestinal point of view confesses he has not the j capacity to understand the need for dogs, it is perhaps useless to try to impress upon his limited comprehension of human emotions the fact that to the majority of people dogs are friends, whose proved worth during many years is not based upon gastronomic possibilities. Because a dog?and I am speaking of real honest-to-goodness dogs, not a Pekinese by-product?because a dog otters to our friend no attraction In the culinary line, he cannot grasp the fact that numberless people would willingly deprive themselves rather than see the family dog shot. If, as he suggests, we ? commence being practical by killing the "worthless" dumb animals, sever^" ing the ties of affection with which dogs have bound themselves to the human family by theft* loyal devotion and often unmerited constancy, let us also strike a blow at our esthetic 1m- , practicalities, that in our efforts to feed the hungry we at least act con* sistently. Let us then, convince our Bernhardts and our Paderwskis of the error of their ways and Instruct them in the Deauiics itnu uwigaiiuua ul uu.agurdening. Let us convert our publio playgrounds into cow pastures, end our art galleries Into cabbage patches. Let us grow onions instead of rose*, and turnips instead of tulips. Let M have a pig pen where the lfac tree once grew, and, a fattening squab in the birdcage. i A consistently practical man would say, Why should the state heavily tax its sane, self-supporting citizens for the maintenance of thousands of idiots and criminal insane, who not only are of no service to mankind (you cannot eat them, you know), but are a very real menace? If the state only had an intestinal point of view, upheld by that sense of duty we are adjured to enteiV tain, it would dispose of these human burdens and send the enormoos amount of focd they consume ?real., food, not scraps?to the aforesaid starving women and children. Canine aristocrats doubtless consume good food, but the average dog lives on table scraps. Our friend cries "kill the dogs and send the food to the starving womep and children." Being a practical man, he doubtless has visualized ships sailing for Europe with I cargoes of garbage cans and dog bis cuits for the grateful women and children. Was it an oversight, or a i doubt as to their gastronomic capabilities, that he failed to include men among the beneficiaries? It is obviously true that an object desirable in itself may easily become undesirable when indulged in beyond ! reason. Three dogs at a time, like three wives, are apt to prove incon. venient to a man and'annoying to the neighbors. It seems a reasonable man should be satisfied with one each, though I am aware that the poseessor of a kennel or a harem will disagree with me. There are degrees of desirability in dogs as well as in citizens. Personally, I r J* ~ ? Umaw u.k?, o d.nmo n oa loAfo a L UU UUl W it j <x nvuiMti OVIVW0 ? Pekinese when she might have chosen an Airdale. But, then, neither do I understand why men, apparently of sound mind, choose as wives the coying, cllnging-vlne type of woman, who functions mentally by reflecting his opinions when he is present and maintaining a comfortable vacuity in his absence. No doubt the mental attribute that leads a man to marry a human bit of moss also leads a woman to choose a Pekinese. Dog3 go mad, to be sure, from heat and thirst, but no dog ever went mad from sensual indulgence. We find It necessary to maintain institutions for o r>/1 rv> lotroo ta/4 LUC tal C Ul UVOCi Itu uuu 41liOW>VM>hVVI children of erring mothers, but a mother dog will nourish her offspring with the last drop of milk in her starving body. m Peace or War??"Mexico," says The San Fmncisco Chronicle, "Is taking up baseball." It will be a wise refereo who can tell just where a baseball match ends and a revolution begins.? Punch (London).