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* VOLOffE L1II, SOI11KK ">. JfEWBERBY, S. Cn TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 101T>. TWICE A WEEK, A YEAJL WILLiSTON SEES DOUBLE TRAGEDY HiNTON Pl'KVIS D1KS FKOM HIS Man Succumbs Alter Inflicting: Death On His Father-in-Law?To Hold Inquest Later. The State. 'Willison. Nov. 21.?Hinton Purvis, who last night shot and killed John Bolen, his father-in-law, died today at 1 o'clock from a gunshot wound in the chest. Bolen was struck several times with bullets from a pistol, while Purvis received the full charge from a shotgun ^ in the breast. Early today Sheriff Morris an-! Coroner WooUard empaneled a jury for ai. iiiqiifst over the remains ol Bolen. A? Purvis was dying, the only testima>;v introduced was that Bolen came to his death ?rom pistol shot wojr.ds inflicted - r..v Hinton Purvis. Poi-?n's body was I'irfcd at 4 o'clock this afternoon. % i - J ~ Tne same jury was empaneieu iu mafternoon to vie w the body of Purvis An inquest is to be held later. Interment is to take place tomorrow. Bolen was cotton weigLer in Wil liston and was about 45 years of age:. Purvis was about 30. The shooting occurred last night at 8 o'clock in a Williston store. The store was crowded at the time, but few of the customers noticed any incident preceding the shooting. Both families have large connections in the county, and many people attend ed the funeral of Bolen today. The double homicide was a shock to ? J ? " /va*% 1 1 tr tne communnv auu gcuciauj utplored. MANNING ADVISES STOKING COTTON lVarns Growers Against Country Damage and Fire Loss on Their Staple. The State. Governor Manning said Saturday in K reference to the warehousing and marketing of cotton: "Recently we have seen a depression in the price of cotton, which, lA. from our information, both as to the H size and demand for the crop, is, in my judgment, unwarranted. It is possible that this slump was caused by resaon of the fact that a large ' number of sellers placed their crop on the market, and for the time being the supply was greater than the demand. It is therefore of the utmost importance that we market the crop slowly and gradually in oraer to maintain a higher scale of value and prevent another such depression in price. "I fully realize of course that debts are due and must be paid, and in order to meet these obligations, our farmers must realize ready cash. In order, tnereiore, ror inose wuo uavc cotton on hand to market it slowly and gradually, and at the same time meet their pressing obligations, 1 would suggest that the resources obtainable through the federal reserve banks are ample to enable the farmer to hold his cotton and make short * ?~ 1 ~Mmn of ro-.l c/in ship m luailj Uii oauic ?<, 1 vuuvuxv.. rates of interest, so as to hold the cotton off the market until an advance in price takes place sufficient to make it profitable to the farmer. "It is necessary, in order to secure loans from the federal reserve banks, ^ that the cotton be properly wareBN housed and insured. In my judg ment. it is necessary to properly warehouse and insure the cotton, whether money is borrowed pr not. I would, therefore, urge our people not to allow their cotton to be exposed to the weather and the dangers from fire, especially at this season * J ~ i. of" the year. we nave maue a suom crop, and it is of great importance that it be protected in every way possible. We must realize the full \ lvalue of this crop. This we can do if we will take advantage of the opportunity that is offered for cheap money through the federal reserve bank and warehouse our cotton and ^ market it slowly." The Herold and News and four (rood maarazine for only $1.40 for a year. tVOl'LD INCREASE THE PAY OF ALL STATE OFFICIALS liill to Ue Introduced by John J. Mc\inliij!,?;i soils Vdviinced i'or Change. .\"ews and Courier. Columbia, Nov. 13.?Mr. .John J. Mc.vlalian, of Columbia, will introduce ..at the coming session of the Legislature a bill to provide salaries for Governor and other State officers and Judges. The scale proposed is: Governor, ; Lieutenant Governor. $1,000; i Secretary of Siaie, Comptroller Gen! eral, Attorney General. Treasurer, Ad| jutant and Inspector General, State j Supeliniendent of Education, and members of the railroad commission each $3,00o; .Justices of tne Supreme Court and Judges of the Circuit Courts, i each $o,000. Mio npw would become ef fective at the beginning of new terms. Speaking of the reasones for making j the salaries higher, I.Mr. McMahan ! said: i "The salaries of officers of this State are ridiculously low. The explanation s uat they repiesent a scale of compensation based on the poverty-stricken condition of our people after the A'ar and in the eighties and nineties. "The tremendous advance in indus trial development hhu iue uuuscijucui higher standard of living, and the greater co^t of living, have not been taken into account in the fixing of the salaries pz.id by the State to her chief officers?no change /n tho amounts having been made since a period of peculiarly depressed prices. "Nothing but the traditional honor 2i public service, and the patrio.ie .imbit'.cn of our people, has made pos sible the continuation cf high class men in office under conditions of low salaries, becoming increasingly disproportionate and insignificant as times change. "The expense ol a campaign for nomination under the primary system, i - ? '"n V* rvrncnri r co lo flPQ instliuieu smut: 1.1c were fixed, to say nothing of the interference of office-nolding with' previous private business so%as virtually to sidetrack an ex-official from resuming lucrative employment, makes the holding of high office in this State in fact a financial sacrifice for most men competent to measure up to the standard which should be required. "Most important is the considera tion?in this age of deeper appreciation of widening democratic influences?that too low a scale of salaries is a handicap put upon poor men, who should be encouraged to aspire 10 public service and distinction, upon their merits, equally with the rich. Ic would be a sad day for South Carolina if the offices should come to be luxurious for the moneyed men, beyond the attainment of the great mid die class. "There should be no question that the Governor?representing the sovereign State, transferred for a brief period from his private home to the Executive Mansion in Columbia and expected to hold up the States' dignity in his mode of living, including genj erous hospitalities?should receive a salary greater than the $3,000 now paid. The presidents of colleges, public and private, and some of our State officers provided for by recent legislation, receive more, or as much. "The Justices and Judges, by their characters and abilities, largely determine the standards of law-enforce meni ana Ol equuauie renei yicvamufe in our State, and therefore our comparative civilization in the' final Court of world public opinion. "A Circuit Judge spends more than $o00 in travelling expenses each year; a supreme court justice must live in Columbia several months in :he year. Each surrenders a private practice often quite lucrative, which he could hardly regain if he retired from the i Bench. The present salary of $3,000? netting the Circuit Judge less than $2 500?is disgraceful. "The Secretary of State has many important duties, including the issuing and recording of charters of corporations. 'The fees collected by his office Viovo qcrprap-pri nvpr $27,000 a year. If "W'V. UQV* V / he were paid by the fee system usually prevailing in the counties, by which the clerks of Court receive all the fees they collect for recording papers, the compensation to him and his assistants would be too great?though not much greater than long prevailed for K;-! of Cc;;n ;j.iKi reg.sirars of mense c?vv ,?ance. and for sheriffs, too. before the fee system was curtailed or abolished. Even now there are county offices paying a salary more than twice that of a State officer. The salary of the Secretary of State at present is $1,900. "The Comptroller General has lianI'ed the assessments of SOS milions of dollars' worth of property, and habeen the power behind the imposing of five and a half ( "? 1-2) dollars of 'axe? nnually?and yet he has been paid a $1,900 salary?much less than many a county auditor or treasurer receives. "The State Treasurer receives ar.-*; pays oui eat'ii vveu uiuje uncs and a half (3 1-2) million dollars of -xe^. and i under a bond of ninety iiousa^d dollars ($90,000.) Vet his salary cf $1,900 is small besides the income of a"fat" county office. "The Attorney General handles legal /-.HQ ti r\n C nf imm, ncfl pnnconiipnno T <1 U t U l nninr 1, OV/ W/li?JV/V|u vnv/v/ v :he State and when he must employ -ssii-tant counsel these receive compensation out cf all proportion to that of their chief?though not as large as the fees paid by private clients. The attorney general's position by tradition is a prize for the ambition of the best lawyers in the State. Yet it has long been paid more like a law clerkshin salarv of SI.900. "The State Superintendent cf Education should be recognized as the equal 01 any college president in the State? certainly he should not be paid, as now, Ic.s than the average city graded school superintendent. His salary is cnly $1,000. "The railroad commission?through its importance is net appreciated bv cr.r people, and the magnitude of its business and prosperity seems to be Yi-.C.e dreamed of by the rank and fie? should be paid somewhat commensu rately with the high-salaried experts Oi the great corporations, whose wits n:d learning must be matched if the commissioners are not to be mere puppets in their hands in all vital controversies affecting the welfare of the people. "These facts have found some recnition, indirectly, in the action of the Legislature upon creating new offices in recent years?offices not provided for by the State Constitution as are chose mentioned above. iThe insurance commissioner is paid $2,500; the warehouse commissioner $3,000, as also :he State health officer. Even the game warden receives $1,900?as much as the constitutional state officers other t^an Governor and Judges. The commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries?though charged with manifold duties?is strangely enough paid only $1,900. "It is time for our people to think about these things and demand a rem tdy. Of course, any salary looks big lo die average wage-earner and to uiany a protessional man, especially in recent hard times. But we all can reason and understand that the representatives of the people, doing the business of the people in the great offices of the people, should, while on public duty, be provided with livelihoods reasonably proportionate to the .revailing standard of living of their equals in training and abilities?a standard of living good and substantial, though not luxurious. Thanksgiving at Postoffice. On November 25, Thanksgiving day, the following hours will be observed at the Newberry postoffice. General delivery, stamp, money order and registry windows will be open. only from 8:15 to 11 a. m. Rural carriers will noi make their usual trips, but patrons may get their mail by calling at the carrier's windows between the hours of 10: lf> and 11:15 a. m. City carriers will make one complete residence and business delivery, leaving the postoffice as soon after 10 o'clock a. m. as possible. They will not deliver mail through windows as has been cust/Mnowv ViAll Anttrnin<y mai 1 <s I1C1 tlWiUl V,. J.M.XI A^M.?AV will be dispatched as usual and incoming mails distributed to the boxes. W. A. Hill, P. M. Xewberry, S. SC., Nov. 22, 1915 Thanksgiving Service. Appropriate services are to be held at Mt. Tabor Lutheran church oa (Thanksgiving day, beginning at 11 o'clock a. m. The proceeds of the offerings arc to be devoted to our Orleans' home in Salem Va. J. B. Harmon. Pastor. SHOTS BY NEGRO KILL TWO WHITE MEN liEN PARKER AM) It EN JOHNSON SLAIN IN MARLBORO. West /('won Captured by Sheriff After rtiacii oil/l T /illirOil in lilll of V 11 ?4 v Ctllll IJVUta, V u 111 tfMiJL (4 I Bennettsville. The S>:ate Bennettsville, Nov. 21.?'West Coon, a negro, today and killed two white men. Ben Parker and Ben Johnson. Tap double homicide was at McLeod's mill, in the upper part of Marlboro county, near Kollock. 'The shooting occurred this morning about 7 o'clock and Coon was captured 12 hours later. He is now in jail at Bennettsville. Johnson was about 35 years of age. He is survived by his wife and four children. Parker was about 32 years of age and is survived by his wife and one child. n inquest was held over both ! bodies today, the verdict being that they came to their death from gunshot wounds'at the hands of West Ccon. The negro is originally from Cayce, in Lexington county. The negro is said to have gone to Johnson's hous?, about 100 yards from his own house last night when a diffi cultv aro~e Mrs. Johnson ordered the negro away when he is raid to have drawn a revolver and threatened her with the weapon. Den Parker took the revolver from the negro and it was in turn taken from Parker by Johnson, who used it to beat the negru nver they read. The negro is said to ha v.- left, to return later with a gun, which he snapped at Johnson several t;mes without succeeding in .firing it. He is said then to have gone <'o the heme of l.ovett Da. is from whom he orim d another gun. This morning about 7 o'clock Parker and .Ichnson were walking near Johnson's home when the negro is said to have killed them with shots from the single barreled shot gun secured from Lovett Davis. The shells were loaded with B.B. shot. The negro escaped for the momen1, but was arrested tonight at 7 o'clock by Sheriff R. J. Patterson, who found him hiding in the loft of his father-in law's barn on the plantation of u. M. Pegues. With Lovett Davis, Coon was brought to Bennettsvifle and placed in the Marlboro county jail. CRIMINAL COURT Judge McLeod Presiding?Heaviest Criminal Docket in Years?19 Persons in Jail. The court of general sessions con vened Monday morning with Special Judge T. G. McLeod presiding. There are 19 prisoners in jail awaiting trial for this term. The following are the prisoners and the charges against them: Elmira Jeter, murder. Cornelia Renwick, hduse breaking and larceny. Luther Ma;thews- assault and batr.ery with razor and intent to kill. Claude Mack, larceny. John Henry Robertson, Geo. Thomas, Henry Gilliam, John Glasgow, pickpockets. Tom Blair, murder. ^ Jim Rice and Archie Pettus, aiding pi xauiiei o LU escape. Ira Jones, assault and battery with intent to kill. Henry Sheppard, transporting liquor. Walter Richard, house breaking and larceny. John Bailey, house breaking and lar cenv. Benjamin Singley, larceny. Henry Counts, forgery. Archie Floyd, assault and battery with intent to kill. John D. Dominick. forgery. Common Pleas. The common pleas court heard one of the cases against the Parr Shoals compar-y last week. W. J. Hentz sued for $20,000. He was represented by Wallace & Barron of Union and Mower & Bynum of Newberry and the Parr Shoals by Elliott& Herbert of Columbia and Hunt, Hunt & Hunter of Xewberrv. At the request of the attorneys for the Parr Shoals the court, including the judge and the jury, made a trip to the dam on Saturday. The inrv romninprl in flip room until after 12 o'clock on Saturday night without reaching an argreement and the j'.dge ordered a mistrial. , <e> * <S> THE IDLER 1 <*> <$> <?> r s> iv j> $> <$> <?> '$> <s> 3> <?> <$><$> <$> <$> "When a man can borrow money ivif!ir>nf prvl la tpra 1 hp's fhp rnllfltpral" I read this little, short sentence the other day in some paper or somewhere else, and it nas oeen going arouna ana around in my head ever since, ard I just can't get it to quit. Somehow, there seems to me to be something in it that is worth passing on, if I can just get out what has been sizzing in my brain ever since I read it. I want j nvnrv vnitntr man oenppiallv whfi rPfld<? ! V..V.AJ j , .. ? W | "his column, to read this little sentence j over two or three times. There may [ not appear to him at first to be any- j thing in it, but. there is a whole lot. It i is *t- ^ermon in itself, if you stop to j think. "When a man can borrow money j without collateral, he's the collateral."i Every man who has tried to borrow ( money has heard of the word collat- j eral. In fact, as the fellow who went,: u:ue j the bank to borrow, sail! Tt j was no trouble to borrow money, but the thing was to get that thing they I called the collateral. Here^s the trou- j ble. We have been training and edu-j eating our people so strongly along the ! line of collateral that we have almost made them forget that the individual counted for anything at all, and as a result we have trained our people j away from the good old doctrine ol > individual honesty, and the idea that a man's word should be his bond. I! believe that if our bankers and financiers and moneyed men generally would place more stress upon the! character and the honesty and integ- j rity and the honor, of the individual, and less upon the collateral, that they would soon develop a higher type of citizen. On the contrary, by stressing .he collateral it has the tendency to leave the impression, especially upon he young, iuat all that counts in this ..orld is collateral. And as a result j Llie tendency is to instil the idea that j one has only to do what the law makes , him do, rather than io be impressed i with the idea that honesty and integrity and honor are t^e things that count; And as a result we are not developing the highest type of citizen. 0, I know there are those ready to say, yes, if you adopt any such plan as that you will soon be penniless. I do not believe it. I believe that any man win come iiearei uuiii? tuc i^uv /: ^ the honest thing, when he realize! iha. you have trusted him and that you nave confidence in his integrity of character, than when he feels that you are suspecting him of doing wrong, | and that you have inverted the doctrine j 1? * ? nntil nrnuon .0ni 11V Ulcil 116 IS4 1UUULCUI UUU1 piunu We go on the doctrine in dealing wi'.b our fellow man, that every man is a rascal, and he must prove his honesty before we can trust him, and then we will only trust him when he has the collateral. I say that is the tendency. T that nna nf fho hnnkft has X IiVU,C ? ? ? ! bought a fine bull with a view of encouraging the raising of stock and better cattle, and it is all right, and another bank man is doing something tcr improve the cattle of the county, and that is all right, too, but what I would like to see some of these bankers do is to encourage some of the young men in the country to stay on the farna by letting them understand that their character and integrity was good col lateral. l mean tms: say lo suuic half a dozen or dozen or more young men, now, you stay on the farm and we will advance you the money, on your own manhood, to start in the hog business, or the cattle business, in a small way at first of course, and we will let you have the money to start if 'you will go to work like a man and make a man out of yourself, and we will charge you only a reasonable -rental for the money, and as you make it pay us back, and we are not going to require you x - ~4- V. ^f nro 1 Qn/1 7 l(_> put up a.U V U111C1 LuiiaiCi ax, uuu ? believe that they could find plenty of young men who would prove to be faithful, and they would encourage them to be men, and show them that there were those who had confidence in them. Not to do it to any large extent, but try out the proposition. It is said of some great man, I believe it was Alex Stevens, that { Qrtvanppr? himdrpfte and thousands I of dollars to worthy young men to j help them secure an education, and j that in every instance they paid aim . t back the money. Their own integrity and manhood were the only; < $> COTTO> MARKET * <?> 6 <s> dewberry. 4 Cotton ll%c r>s Cotton seed, per bu 60c <S> 4 <? Prosperity. ? <$? Cotton ll^ic ICotton seed, per bu 57c ? <8> < <$> Pomaria. $ Cotton H/4c ^ Cotton seed, per bu.. 57c ^ < > < <S> Little Mountain. <S> Cotton ll%c 4 <$ Cotton seed, per bu 57c ^ ?S> < ^ - Silyerstreet. <# Cotton H/4c $> Cotton seed, per bu 60c ^ 4> ^ <$> Chappells. ^ y Lotion xi>^c Cotton seed, per bu 57c <S> ' ? <S> Kinards. 4 <$> Cotton ^ <$ Cotton seed, per bu 52c <$> < <$> ? Wfc itmire. <S <S> Cotton H^4c <S> ICotton seed, per bu 57c ^ <?> ,, 4> The Ladies' Aid society of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer will meet Tuesday-afternoon at the home of Mrs. Jas. P. Shealy at 4 o'clock. collateral he required.. Try it, some of iyou bankers. If you lose a few dollars on a few who are not made of the right stuff, you will help and encourage a number of worthy young men to start in life and to make men of themselves. And this reminds me that I rea? a few years ago, a book dalled Peter, and you talk about your Polly Anna and all the others, and some of then* are good, but this book, to m>y mine, ^aught a lesson 'hat none of the other m rs. A* ^ ~ U 4. C? ~ XV il Vjut^i ii del V UUV/IVJ& LCdiJU. ovmc uuc without my consent, borrowed th book from my library and forgot to return it, and, therefore, I can onlv refer to it from memory, and my memory is not as good as it used to be, 'out the one thing that I recall from the reading of that book is that thi young man Peter was a poor boy, and he saw an opportunity to d^ something worth while, but he didn't nave tne money. Ana mere ar lots of 'em just like Peter. He was a worthy and an honest young man who had been reared in the country. He tried the banks and the moneyed men generally in an effort to secure the money he needed, but in ever." | instance was turned down because he didn't have the collateral, and finally some one told him of an oM Jew who had plenty of money, bu.' | was a miser, and lived for his mone7 only and for the sake of the know.edge that he possessed it. Peter wen" ! to see him and told him what h'> ! wanted, and what he wanted to do | Of course, the first question th-> old miser wan.ted to know was wha1 security?collateral?Peter had to offer. Peter made bold to tell him I that hp had nothine excpDt his man hood and his honesty, and that wa.what he offered. The old Jew waV so forcibly struck with the boldness and the frankness of the young man that he let him what he wanted, an7 he, Peter, made good and returnei every dollar with rental. The point of all this is to impress the importance of endeavoring to instil into the mind of the young that i; is vital to the citizenship that yov try to be the collateral, and, the im Dortance to those who have the ahili ty to help that they encourage in th<r rearing of a citizenship that the character of the individual may be considered collateral. And I want every man who rents money to encourage U ? . C i ~ LUUJ5C vvuu UUHUVV UUI11 lUCUl IU ICmember the text: "When a man ca~ borrow money without collateral, he' ? the collateral." Then I want th% man who rents money to encourae4 the man who borrows to be the co' lateral. That's all. THE IDLER.