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v MINISTER IS INVENTOR. Rev. Shuford Has Sold Weighing Machine for $75,001). Rev. S. W. Shuford, pastor of the Mountain View Baptist church, one mile north of Cowpens, S. C., has recently completed, secured patents, and sold for seventy-five thousand dollars cash, an automatic registering weighing device, which will to a great extent revolutionize present weighing methods of railways and other large corporations. The purpose of the device is the weighing while in continuous motion of freight cars, automobiles, trucks, wagons and other transportation vehicles while they are traveling at the rate of thirty miles an hour, and in addition to securing the weight it is so designated as to automatically register the number of the picture of the car as it passes the car, the company, and to secure a scales. Patent number 1,422,141 has been secured from the United States government and sold to the Industrial Promotion Exchange, 100 Fifth Avenue, New York, for cash consideration of $75,000, the contract already having been closed. ? Rev. Shuford has received .a number of attractive offers from large concerns in every part of America and from numerous foreign countries and only after a lengthy and mature deliberation did he finally decide to close the contract with the New York concern. Inquiries from Mexico, ? ""* * t* England, Franca, yiiermaiiy, Asia, xcaly, Russia, Cuba, and other countries, in regard to the securing of patents, have been received. Make Working Model Now. A working model of the device is now under construction at the Greenville Iron Works, where' it will be placed on exhibition upon completion. The engineers working on the model hope to have it completed within six or eight weeks. The model on exhibition will contain all the various features and will give each in minature detail. It will be an exact reproduction of the working model. Rev. Shuford has been four years in completing his invention. The original model was a crude affair, being Toughly constructed of wood, metal and other material but was improved upon from time to time until the present working model was evolved. Will Be Evangelist. The inventor is a native of Burnsville, North Carolina, but has been a citizen of South Carolina for a number of years. He is married and has five children. When asked as to his . future plans he replied that he intends to purchase a large tent with a seating capacity of approximately five thousand and follow the evangelistic work. Last summer Rev. Shuford held a revival meeting at the Mountain View church which lasted several weeks and swept this section with religious fervor and enthusiasm never felt here before within the recoltion of the oldest inhabitants, and which resulted in a great number of additions to the church. Them Was the Days. "Sorry, but I can't insure you? you're too tall," said the agent to the man who waanted to take out an accident policy. "Too tall? What's the matter with that?" protested the applicant. "And, anyway, I'm not as tall as my father was and he had no trouble getting insured." "But your father," the agent explained, "was insured years ago when there was no danger of a fellow having his head knocked off by a skid- | ding airplane."?The American Le- j gion Weekly. I The Under Dog. As for me, I care not a single fig If they say I'm wrong or I'm right;. I shall always go in for the weaker dog, The under dog in the fight. I know that the world?that the great big world? Will never a moment stop To see which dog may be in fault, But will shout for the dog on top. But for me?I never shall pause to ask Which dog may he in the rignt; But my heart will beat, while it beats at all, For the under dog in the fight. One Ship Did It. One of the Judge's prize stories is as follows: An American doughboy, vaptive to a boche officer was questioned. "How many of you American soldiers are there on this side of the Atlantic?" queried the German. "Oh, about 3,000,000 of us." "It must have taken a lot of ships we kr.ow nothing about to bring all of you over, didn't it?" "Oh, no; only one ship brought us over." "Only one! Impossible. And what one was that?" "The Lusitania." AGED PAIR WEDS. Courtship of Old Couple Began in a Cemetery. With two great-great-grandchildren, twenty-seven great-grandchildren and fourteen grandchildren viewing with disfavor an eleventh hour embarkation upon already well charted matrimonial seas1, but with one son to stand by him and a prospective stepdaughter as maid of honor, "Grandpa" Robert V. McCauley, oldest resident of Hampden, Baltimore, the other night married Mrs. Nellie Miller. The ceremony, which was postponed because of protests made by various progeny of the couple, took place at their new home on Baldwin street. The bridegroom is eighty-four years of age, but the bride is a young and frivolous girl of fifty years. He weighs 125 pounds. She strains the scales at 220 pounds. The courtship began in a cemeterry, where Mrs. Miller went to place flowers upon the grave of her husband, who died a year or more ago. McCauley came to tend the grave of his wife, who died less than two years ago. Each had known the other's former mate. On Decoration day, when the cemetery was filled with those who brought flowers for remembrances, they met and became engaged. Why DuPre Was Hanged. Greenville Pidmont. Of peculiar interest at this time to j the men and women, the fathers and mothers of South Carolina is the statement issued by Governor Hardwick, explaining why he refused to exercise executive clemency in the DuPre case. He safd: i "Of course I am not without sym- 1 pathy and respect for the views of many tender hearted persons?largely women?who have urged executive clemency forv the applicant. I understand and appreciate the human sympathy and the deep and true Christian charity which antmates them in this matter. My own >ionrt is tnnehed bv their appeal; but, because of my honest judgment l and conscience, I cannot yield to sentiment of this kind, without being absolutely false to my duty, to society and to the public. The sympathy in this case should not be entirely aroused in behalf of the youthful bandit who gloated over his deeds cf theft and murder until he was actually to face the penalty, whose repentence came when he was in the clutches of the law, and not before he was apprehended. What of the faithful, lawabiding man, Mr. Walker, who sleeps in an untimely grava. sent there by DuPre's act? Is there no sympathy for him? What of the little woman who is widowed by his act? Is there no sympathy for her? What of the seven-year-old orphan, made so by him? Is there no sympathy for her? Is there no sympathy for the fatherless girl who has been deprived of the support and of the protecting1 care of her father throughout all her life? if Durre was motherless he has made this liti tie child fatherless. If DuPre was young he was at least a man old enough to enlist in the army of his country and to meet all of its mental and physical tests in doing so, and is at least considerably older than the child whom he made fatherless. "But my action in this case does not rest on the law of 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' It rests on a broader, deeper, truer principle than that. Unless our boys, who may even now be embarked on a similar path to that pursued by this applicant, who may be filling themselves with cheap and poisonous liquor, who may be associating with gamblers and prostitutes, are checked in their mad courses of crime, who can tell how many orphans will be made in Georgia by their conduct? Who can tell how many innocent men?even innocent bystanders?may lose their precious lives before the time appointed by Providence? It is to * A A ? ~ 4-V, /vnrv nt ViQT protect society, to save mcac women from being made widows; these other men from being slain; these other children from being made orphans, that it is necessary^ ?and absolutely necessary?that the supreme penalty of the law be executed upon this applicant. It is to give to them and all of them in this state and throughout this country the most solemn and impressive warning that can be given in the name of the law and in the name of civilized society, and in the name of organized,government. An appalling and increasing number of violent crimes, of every sort, are occurring in our midst?a crime wave, worldwide in its sweep, has not spared or J missed our state. While the situa,-o T,nt- xrnrsfi in Georgia than in liUll 10 _ other states, nor in this country than in other countries, it is appalling, everywhere, and the sternest measures are necessary to check it. ''The supreme penalty of the law | has been passed upon this man by J SONORA AND THE YAQUIS. Wonderful State Where Much Wealth Abounds and Life is Cheap. "Just the mere headline 'Yaqui chief may be governor of Sonora' sounds like a Chestertonian paradox ?but then Sonora is a state of the sharpest contrasts," says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society. "Imagine western Pennsylvania with its farms and coal mines}. and gold and silver mines as well, with unsubdued tribes of thieves and killers whom the state police could not quell, dwelling in its mountains, with one of these tribesmen running for governor, and you have only a partial comprehension of Mexico's second largest state. Unique in Mineral Wealth. "No other place on our continent is comparable to Sonora in mineral wealth. Its history discloses incidents that would have startled Croesus and Solomon. Indians picking up a 600pound nugget of pure silver and carrying it away on a platform slung between two mules. The owner of the famous Quinteria mine who lined a bridal chamber for his daughter with bars of silver and laid a pavement of this chaste metal from her home to the church. The widow who packed her ingots on forty mules and set out with the over-laden beasts to Mexico City where she sought safety for her wealth by depositing it with the Spanish viceroy. The lady disappeared in a manner officially unknown and her fortune reverted to the state. "In modern times episodes like these were transformed by the magic of scientific mining and,, in the years 3f Mexico's normalcy, Sonora's annual 4-rMi 4- /\ ^ rv> ir\ lr< AVAAA/1 A/1 C A fl AAA _ UU iput U1 ilinici aio CA^CCUCU tpuVjVVV,ooo. "Kick Your Breakfast Off a Tree." "And yet in some parts of Sonora you can 'kick your breakfast off the trees any morning in the year.' Nnlike many mining regions Sonora also comprises areas of marvelous fertility. Critics who hold that Americans crossed the border at Nogales only to take away buried treasure of gold, silver, copper, iron, coal, and lead, should visit the man-made Eden in the Yaqui Valley where an American company employed the wizardry of irrigation to make thousands of acres bear fruit and grain. "Before the days of Villa another Yankee corporation had a cattle ranch in Sonora which was sub-divided into 200 pasture lands; and overseers were equipped with automobiles and maps that showed trails, fences, roads, and pastures. ^ i?> ? Do You Say? Let one tonight look back across the span ''.Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say Because of some good act to beast or man? The world is bertter that I lived today." an impartial jury of twelve honest men of Fulton county. It has been upheld by an able, upright and impartial judge. It has been upheld by the supreme court of Georgia, and). lastly, by the unanimous recommendation of the three able and upright men who constitute the prison j cowmission of Georgia, acting on a board of pardons. To all of these findings I must give weight. Nothing has- developed since< the trial to in any way affect or alter the case. Guilt is still undisputed, and undenied and still proven. Under these circumstances, I feel it to be my sworn duty, before God and man, to allow the law to take its course." These strong, true, righteous words should sink into the hearts 01 even* propective juror, every father and mother, every young man, every voter in South Carolina who reads them. Let them be especially considered by those who are disposed to excuse free and freq,uent exercise of the pardoning power. So long as criminals are dealt with tenderly, just so long fnnocent and unoffending men and women are going to be robbed and murdered in South Carolina. Let the DuPre case come home to you. Unless "the sternest measures" are used by the governor of South Carolina and all others charged with the administration of the laws your father, your wife., your husband, your mother, your child, your son, your daughter, your brother, your sister may be slain, while the murderer coolly pocketing his gun or wiping the red stream from his knife, will sneer at the thought of punishment, because he feels that the chances favor his acquittal in the courts, or a new trial, and, that failing., a parole or pardon from a pardoning governor. Shall the verdicts of juries and the sentences of courts be upheld in South Carolina as in Georgia? Shall human life be less safe in South Carolina than in Georgia? Shal the lives of unoffending men, women and children be put into jeopardy by the chief executive of South Carolina? MOTHER FINDS SONS. Boys Were Kidnapped From Her 58 Years Ago. Just when the clouds of adversity hung heaviest over the pathway of life of Mrs. Mary Margaret Roper, 80, a resident at the county poor house, a ray of sunshine pierced through, ? Tr n-i. A r ? a. bays a tvansas -?iu., aispateu. For the aged woman has just found : her two sons, who were kidnapped fifty-eight years ago. Nearly sixty years she had spent alternately hoping and despairing of finding her boys, who were literally snatched from her arms when they were scarcely able to toddle. More than < $10,000?thirty years' back pen- ] sion?will be her financial compensa- < tion for the heart-aches experienced ] in the years which have elapsed since s baby fingers caressingly toyed with / locks of a mother's tresses whose marital craft at that time was sailing upon a calm sea. n There is a spring in Mrs. Roper's < step these days, and she is all smiles, j Her "Bluebird of Happiness" apparently has flown into her window. The j cheap callico dresses which have < graced the hooks in the little room "j at the home of the aged, where Mrs. j Roper has made quilts, for the last i ten years, have been discarded. In 0 their stead several black silk ones, \ with lace fringes around the collars have appeared. This woman, whose three score years and ten have failed to perceptibly halt her step or her vision, re- , ceived a letter from one of her sons ?Joseph?in which he expressed himself as overjoyed, she sai<V to learn that she was alive. He extended her a cordial invitation to come live with him and his family. This Mrs. Roper has planned to do. Her other son, Charles, is married and has two children. A prominent local attorney, who often visits the poor house and whose philanthropic actions keep him constantly in the limelight, received a cheery greeting from Mrs. Roper when he visited her. This man had 1?? M I'll c&arettes They are GOOD! 1Q, Bay this Cigarette and Save Money J ir^ntti B TN the past two m B X has built and mad I than in any similar peri This steadily increa* , erence is proof of the car owners of the gr fered by Firestone. I Firestone men?all sto company?all actuated ing principle of Most ! The high average Firestone Cords is wit! annals of tire making by the general tend* Firestone for hard se and bus lines, buying t GUJM been a marketing agent for her handiwork for some time. Smiling, she shook hands with her benefactor: "I won't be making quilts for you any more," she explained. "That money I was saving to bury myself with I've spent in buying clothes to go to my son. You see, I have a family now." She then showed the attorney several photographs of Charles and Jo T~ - ? 1- x _ 1 ? XI. i ? scyxi wujl'ii were laken wnen ine cnndren were one and four years old respectively. Her friends?and they are legion?wagered that no woman in Jackson county is any prouder or happier than she. Shortly after Lee surrendered to Grant at Richmond, Mrs. Roper's husband returned to Springfield, Ohio, their home, she said. Scarcely a week elapsed when Roper and NOTICE OF SALE. Pursuant to an order of the ProDate Judge for Bamberg County, the indersigned, as Administrator of the estate of B. M. Roberts, deceased, cvill sell at public auction, to the lighest bidder, for cash, at the late residence of B. M. Roberts, deceased. it Ehrhardt, S. C., on the 22nd day Df September, 1922, beginning at 10 D'clock, A. M., and continuing until sold, certain personal property belonging to said estate, consisting of two (2) second hand automobiles, household goods and furniture, etc., in inventory of the same being on file 1? 4.-U - iV. f>?T? A - T?J ~a ILL IUB UUILB 01 LilO rfUUfllB J UUgC Ui Bamberg County. R. C. ROBERTS, 7ministrator of the estate of B. M. Roberts. Bamberg, S. 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