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8AYS PRESIDENT HARRISON OF ! SOUTHERN IN FIRST PUBLIC ADDRESS. \ MONEY REMAINS IN SOUTH New President of Southern Analyzes Intimate Relation of Company to People Served. ' Chattanboga, Tenn.?Speaking at the annual banquet of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Fairfax Harrison, the new president of the Southern Railway company, '""made what may be considered his first pub lic declaration, since his election to succeed the late Mr. W. W. Finley. Mr. Harrison said: The Southern Railway System in cludes 10,000 miles of railroad on which 59,000 officers and employees Fairfax Harrison, President' Southern Railway perform public services,. in return for which more than one hundred millions of annual revenue is collected. These are big figures and, in a country in which there has always been a pride in big things, in which every commun ity has been wont to boast of that which it has which is the biggest, such 4 a big thing as the Southern Railway System should be, and I believe is, a source of pride to the South, but exactly in proportion as it is big also in its public service and faithful in its public trust. The administration of such a vast machine, affecting, as it does, the comfort and well being of the people of a large territory, is, therefore, itself a large public service. The time has passed when it might be exploited for merely private and B6IDSU tJIius. JL lit; law/cia uacu tell us that a railroad was a quasi public institution, but today, happily, It might better be described as a quasi private institution. It is private still j in the opportunity it presents for the exercise of individual initiative and competitive service, but in practically . every other sense it is now recognized that it i& public. It is a matter of sincere regret to every railroad manager that railroad securities are not more generally held, directly and Immediately, in the com munities which the railroads serve. The lack of such holding deprives him of a powerful and sympathetic ally in the relation of public opinion to his problems. The time was when the rail road stocks were owned immediately at home, and by the people who were most influential in shaping public opin ion, but today, while railroad stocks are generally held by the same kind of people?by those who, through the ex ercise *of prudence, industry and cour 1 1-1J 1 age uave ia.iu uy u wimiieieuw, cuiu uj the women and children for whom they "worked?such investors now do not as a class reside in the territories in which they have made their investr ments. The explanation of this phe nomenon?so well known to us all, but still a phenomenon?is part of the financial history of the United States, but the fact has given rise to a feel ing among many of those who use tha railroads daily and come into immedi ate contact with their managements, that the railroads belong to some mys v terious, remote and foreign power, to irresponsible potentates, who bear, in popular imagination, the generic name of "Wall Street." We read in maga zines and newspapers of the romantic lives attributed to a few individuals who are supposed to "control" the destinies of whole communities by pos session and exploitation of the instru ments upon which suph communi ties depend for their necessary trans portation, who "fix" rates and arbi trarily determine conditions of senr Ice, and so "tax tne peopie tney ougui to serve, withdrawing money earned in the sweat of the brow from the com munities where it is earned, to be dlasl pated at a distance in extravagant fol lies. Such a vision is not the result of pure imagination?It has had un fortunately its foundation of justifica tion fax a few conspicuous instances which leap to the lips of everyone who discusses our present-day Industrial problems; but every intelligent map knows that it is no longer, if it ever was, the rule. , In considering such lamentable indi vidual cases, the public, when forming Its potent judgment on the present sit uation of the railway industry, must recognize them as tjie unhappy excep tions they are. To him who insists that the railroads should be judged by their black sheep, it is fair in answer to Invite attention to' many exemplars of high-minded integrity in the ad ministration of railroad property. We in the South can cite shining examples of such rectitude. I may be forgives a proud reference to my late chief, William Wilson Finley, whose oppor tunities were not '.less - than those of any of the flagrant -individuals to whom allusion has been made, but who after years of devotion to a public duty and the practice of a large private charity, left an estate the amount of which, as announced in the public press, is at once a certificate of can did character and an illustration of just administration. One who knew them can add to the same roll of honor two more executives, of railroads, in the South who have recently gone to the grave-^Thomas M. Emerson and John W. Thomas! Jr. Despite the holding of railroad stock outside of the territories the railroads serve, and despite the aberrations from integrity in the administration of some particular railroads, I believe that 1 am not claiming too much when I as sert that such has been-the develop ment of the recognition. In recent years of the public nature* and responsibility of the administration of the railroads, and such haye been the practical con sequences of that recognition, that to day in ev^ry essential a railroad be longs to the communities It serves. In this aspect and in a very real sense the Southern Railroad belongs to the people p^f'the South. It is not only their highwajly to market, but itsr fiscal operations are part of the life of the communities along its Jines. At some risk of trespass upo^ your attention, I venture to support this claim with a brief argument from sta tistics. They record a condition which is astonishing and I confess astonish ed me when I saw how far they go along the lines of a tendency which I knew to obtain. Of the one hundred and three millions of annual revenue collected last year by the railways in cluded in the Southern Railway Sys tem, there was immediately paid out again along its lines at least seventy six millions, an amount not far short of the total collections from the peo ple of the South: f6r approximately twenty-two millions of the total reve nues were collected from people out side of the Southeastern States?a fact not often taken into considera tion, the explanation of which is that an appreciable part of the passenger traffic of tho system consists of the transportation of residents of other localities traveling in the South, and, furthermore, that to a large extent Ireignt cnarges on aoumern pruaucui shipped to other localities are paid by the consignees.. What then becomes of these great revenues collected in the South? Are they hurried away to some cavern in Wall street? .No. The fact is that all the moneys collected in the South axe deposited in Southern' banks which are drawn upon from time to time only as funds are needed for proper fiscal purposes. The funds of the; sys tem thus become an important factor in strengthening the banks of the ter ritory and so are at all times &t the service of the Southerb people. ' , I have said that these funds are withdrawn from Southern banks from time to time only as needed for proper fiscal purposes, but even in that opera tion, to a large extent, the moneys col lected for transportation service on our lines are not withdrawn at all from the Southern communities in which they are collected. This can be dem onstrated by an analysis of Southern Railway expenditures for the last fis cal year.' Such analysis shows that, of every dollar disbursed, 41.71 cents went to the payment of wages, sub stantially all of which are paid along the line of the road, 'and so remain in Southern banks, a disbursement which, for the Southern Railway prop er, averages about ' two million dol lars a month. The purchase of ma terials and supplies used 23.30 cents, and, under our policy of buying as far as practicable from Southern people, 19.12 cents of this was expended in the South and only 4.18 cents in other localities. Miscellaneous operating ex penses required 6.09 cents, all spent in the South. Taxes, all paid in the South, required 3.65 cents. Interest, rentals and other miscellaneous pay ments accounted for 20.83 cents, and the holders of the company's prefer red stock received 4.42 cents. It Is un fortunately impracticable to determine the proportion of interest and divi dends paid to Southern owners of Southern railway securities. I wish it was all paid to Southern people; ^ 4 * * Al ? DUl, leaving uiebt} buuibij um ul ac count, it* is seen that at least 70.57 cents out of every dollar expended by the Southern Railway remains in or ig brought into the South. It may be add ed that these figures do not take ac count of expenditures for additions and betterments amounting laBt year to three millions and a half and in ten years to twenty-seven millions of which the major part, expended on roadway and structures, was practical ly all paid out along the line of the read. We may then take it as es tablished that what the Southern peo pie pay the Southern Railway lines for transportation remains a part of the working capital of the Southern peo ple; but it is Interesting to pursue the thought a step further to a reali zation of what these disbursements by the Southern Railway in the South mean in the life and growth of the Southern people. Of the total of Bev enty-six millions paid out along the Southern Railway lines last year ap proximately forty-three million dollars went to the army of 59,000 employees aid. thus, on the conventional basis of five to a family, directly supported about 295,000 Southern people, or aHrait o1t onH nno-holf tlmpn thp nOD. ulatloii of Chattanooga at the date ot the last census. I have Bpoken of our preferred stockholders, but the real preferred stockholders of the Southern Rail way System, in the matter of priority of claim, are the political govern ments of the States, counties, and cities along its lines. Their claim upon railroad revenues comes ahead even of that of employees, and they took- $3,743,704.39 in the last fiscal year. It is hard to grasp the signifi cance of figures as large as this: what our tax payments really , mean -to the communities along our lines can be better understood by an illus trative analysis of our payments on account of school taxes and road and bridge taxes in the southern states. In 1912, our school taxes In these .states amounted to something over $800,000, or an average of twenty eight hundred dollars for each coun ty traversed by our lines. At the . av erage annual compensation of school teachers in the Southern States as reported by the United States Bjureftu of Education, this would more than pay for ten teachers in each county. It represents $2.64 out of every $100 of school taxes paid in these States and * amounts to fifteen dollars for each echool building in the States traversed by our lines. Every dollar paid to the 'Southern Railway for transportation charges thus in^hideb a substantial contribution to. the maintenance of the system of public education in the South. > . Payments by the Southern Railway System inj the same year of taxes di rectly. assessed for public roads and bridges amounted to l447.966.Ct3, or an average of $1,571.81 for each .coun ty along our lines. Every dollar p*id to the Southern Railway for transpor tation charges thus includes ajso a substantial contribution to the main tenance of the public highways of the Sbuth anil la an'indirect but non^e the less real public support of the pro gressive movement for good and bet ter roads. I have referred/to the impraptioa* bility of determining the amounts of interest and dividends paid to :hold> ers of securities living along th0 line of the road. We know, however, that a large percentage of our population have a very real though indirect per sonal interest in these securities .even though they may never have seen a railroad bond or stock certificate. There are few families in the South who do not hold an insurance policy of some sort; either an assurance on life or against the risk of fire. The invested iunus oi lue great luauiau^o companies are, therefore, matter of vital concern to the Southern people, and in large measure, are their own assets held in trust for their benefit We find that the chief insurance com-, panies report their holding of securi ties of the Southern Railway System, Including terminal bonds on which the Southern Is a joint guarantor, aggre gating more than eighty million dol lars. In that great fund, the Integri ty of which depends upon the .con tinued solvency of the Southern Rail way lines, the Southern people have a vital proprietory interest, an inter est which, as they realize it, should be to them a constant spur to protect themslves by maintaining, as they can and will, the basis' of Southern Railway credit. I assert with confidence that the facta to which I have called your at-: tention are full warrant for the claim that in a very real pense the South ern Railway belongs to the people of the-South; so much so that its annual reports might more properly be ad dressed "To the People of the South" to advise you "of the results of the management of your property, for today it belongs more to you than It does to the stockholders, More than this, its management Is and always has been devoted to the interests of the South. Its officers are mostly Southern-born men and those who were , not bofn in the South have been here long enough to become identified with our iiterests, our pe culiarities, our responsibilities, our prejudices, and our aspirations as a people; they talk the same language as the people of the South. I look forward;tb the time when there may be more Southern men sitting on our Board of Directors, where I know that they will be .welcome. As an organization then, the South ern Railway, with full appreciation of, and acquiescence in, the present tendency of public sentiment as to what a railway is and should be, stands pledged to the Southern peo ple, and is proud to declare itself one of their own institutions. As such it Invites the Southern people! to help it to become more and more their efficient servant and at the same time the object of their pride and af qv nflod h q vo tin ffia i? nf its future if it has their confidence. I truBt you will permit me to take this occasion to say finally a word of a personal nature: I believe in the South and our Southern people with all aiy heart and soul. I have, given most of the years of ;my manhopd to an earnest, though subordinate, part in an effort to realize a high pur pose of promoting the regeneration. ] through industry, of the prosperity of this our beloved motherland. I have not known In my own experi ence the horrors either of the military conflict which left our people prostrate, or of the dreary years of political disability and atrophied am bition which followed that great war between the States, In one of the chief theaters of which we are to night, but I know the bitterness of these things in the tradition of my Immediate family, and I have learned from my parents that there can be no higher aspiration than to be .a part in the realization of the ideals of our Southern people. Pacing the future, I have then dedicated my life to that duty and to identification with the Southern people. Many others . have done and are doing this and I | am proud to be of the company which has accomplished, through coopera tion and sustained effort, so much in the last quarter of a century. I am humbly grateful for the wel come the South has given me to my new opportunity for its service. It has been such a welcome as you have given me tonight, cordial and with every evidence of good wllL My hope is to justify this to those who allow me their confidence, who are willing to believe that if we some tlines fall it will not be through lack of good intention or desire to do our duty as we conceive it I have no sense of pefsoqal elation in the. reali sation today of an ambition cherished ever since I entered the service of the Southern Railway Company 17 years ago. I feel most a sobering sense of a heavy responsibility, but I do not fear the eveqt I have served under two rreat men. Samuel Spencer, and "Wil 11am Wtlspa Flnley, both men of action, eager to accomplish, conscious al ways of the Imperious summons of today, and of the warning of Boole siastes: "Whatsoever thy hand flnd eth to do, do it with thy might" I have known that before all they were patriotic men, faithful to the South, and with their ex&mple and their ideals before me my hope now is so to carry on their work as to gain the .kind of public esteem they earned and .to aid in build lug for. the future, as they built, not only the Southern Railway, but the South itself. 2a this high endeavor, I am on* of you, my fe\low countrymen, who are simi larly engaged, and I appeal to you as co-workers for aid and co-opera tion. THE MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN Will Open Up In Earnest In .a Short Time.?Dr. Gambrell Candidate For Re-election. Mayor C. C. Gambrell will be a can didate to succeed himself as mayor in the approaching primary which will occur sometime in March. It was un derstood for sometime that Ex-Mayor J. E. Jones would likely be a candi date this year. However, Mr. Jones now makes the positive announcement that he will not be a candidate, but will remain with the Abbeville Insur ance and Trust Co., as Secretary and will also continue as the local repre sentative of the Anderson Phosphate nnr1 Oil C.n For the cast few davs it has been rumored that Jas. Chalmers would- he a candidate to succeed May or Gambrell. If he enters the race *.t Is not believed that there will be any other candidates. Mr. Chalmers announced on Monday that he would be a candidate for May or in the approaching prifnary elec tion which will come off sometime in March. END IS IN SIGHT IN BITTER FIGHT ?' i 1 . Underwood-Hobson Campaign Has Been Interesting.?Primary Comes Soon. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 16.?The seven months' fight between Oscar W. Underwood, majority leader of the national house of representatives and Congressman Richmond P. Hobson for the Alabama vacancy in the United States senate, is drawing to a Close, ine deciding vuies m a cam paign that has attracted nation-wide interest will be cast at the Democratic primaries to be ehld April 6. The ac tual election of a senator will not take place until November 4, but that will be merely a ratification of the choice made at the primary polls. "Within The Law." Smokeless powder, noiseless firearms and a Maxim Silencer, such as the McNamara dynamiters are alleged to have employed against their enemies, are adop ted for the first on the stage In "Within the Law," Bayard VeUler's thrilling new American play of modern metropolitan life which the American Play Co. is to present at the Opera House on Thursday Feb-19. These ingenious devices of modern war fare?which make possible the killing of a person, with practically a minimum danger of detection?are adriotly intro duced by the playwright to Inject an ele ment of baffling mystery into the murder that forms one of the exciting scenes of 'Within the Law." Although the audience sees a pistol drawn and the character at whom it is aimed, drop seemingly lifeless, there Is not the slightest report from the discharge of the bullet nor the faintest trace of smoke. It is the use of th*se weapons that makes so puzzling the solu tion of the crime in the play. In New York and Chicago, where "Within the Law" is the current dramatic hit, the play was designated "the drama of the minute." BIG INCREASE IN AP PROPRIATION BILL HALF MILLION DOLLAR INCREASE IN RILL SURM1TTED COMPAR ED WITH LAST YEAR MEANS LEVY 7 MILLS Figures Will Likely be Cot Down Con* slderable, However.?Total Amount Asked for Is $2^61,795^-$30,000 Is Appropriated for Eradication Of The Cattle Tick. Columbia, Feb. 12.?The general ap propriation bill was presented tonight by Chairman Geo. W. Dick on the part of the ways and emans committee. The committee has had a prodigious task to keep pace with a fast growing State and at the same time not make a heavy increase in the aggregate of the appropriation. The committee has given many hearings and has been faithful in this work. It has gone over the bill time and again, pruning here and revising" there, and the bill persented tonight by Chair man Dick is considered complete in every detail, and while showing an Increase in dollars and cents is not really so much so in view of the heavy increases in demand for the growing State and increases neces sary all along the line'. The: chief difference tffat apparently has to be provided for is that last year there was a special act carrying a one mil] direct tax that was -used for the Garris-Nicholson high school ex penses and library act. that involved about $200,000. This year's bill car ries this $200,000 directly as it has not been provided for in a special act as was done last year, therefore, in the apparent Increase of $532,718 in the bill over the amount carried in the bill of 19*3, at least $200,000 Is to be credited to the school- Items that were provided for in the special one mill tax- If the bill. Is passed . J f ' ' t ' : ?x 'A ? -ill maam *v oaVAfl as repuneu it wm q ot? mill State tax levy. Last y^ar the levy was slightly less. Jnchrtfing the school funds there will'be an increase of tljree quarters of a mill for'* 1914. In other words the total tax for 1914 Will be seven mills, and this will In clude the funds necessary for the Va rious school items. i \ The miscellaneous schedule in the act of 1913 carried $96,589 wtiile this year the aggregate is $366,892 most of which is to be credited to the school items that were otherwise pro vided for, last year. There, are'a num ber of items in the act for 1914 that show decreases in', the bi|l of last year. " , The insurance commissioner's of fice is provided with $150. less than in 1913. The attorney general's office; AAA rfa 1 aoo '' fho f2,VVU 1U00, puuilb UU11UU1JD ivun, W.V tax department nearly $2,000 less. The University of South Carolina gets $2,105 less than the total - for-* 1913.^ The interest of the State 'debt:is cut $30,000. The legislative expenses are reduced over $3,000., The total reduction aggregates $41,334 and the increases $574,056. The largest in creases being at the deaf, dumb ;and I blind institution $43,946 is added and ; of it $35,000 is for a new building. Winthrop College is allowed $30,- j 000 for the erection of a gymnasium | provided $35,000 is raised by Win throp from other sources. The .t ap propriation ror wminrop suuw? an increase of $20,840 including the gymnasium item. The Hospital for the Insane is allowed an increase of $50,000 on account pf its increasing population, there is not a cent pro vided for the development of the new Hospital for .the Insane at State Park. ' .1 , The health department showk an increase of $36,000 and there. is% a provision of $25,000 for the establish ment of a tuberculosis hospital. There is no provision as to where this hospital is to be located.. There (is an increase of $22,200 for the office of the railroad commissioners. Cat awba Indian item shows an increase of $2,200. The commissioner of ag riculture is allowed an increase of $2,800 for his office. The adujutant general's office is allowed an increase of $6,500. The industrial school at Florence is allowed $44,000. The pen sion fund is increased $7,000 and then elections have to be provided for this year at an additional cost of $36,435. There *ts an Increase of $34,800 in the appropriation for the medical college at Charleston. The total of the bill presented tonight is $2,391,795, as against $1,859,077 for last year. The total net increase is about $250,000. In the miscellaneous items is in cluded $30,000 for tick eradication and provision is made for an ap propriation of $10,000 for militia manouver camp and the encamp ment to be held ' on condition that the city getting the encampment sup plement the $10,000 with an' equal amount. There Is a provision for $5,000"for the representation of this State in peace memorials on Lake Erie. ; ; * The military appropriation 'is in creased $8,000 over what it was last year. An appropriation of $5,000 fa recommended to pay A. W-: Todd for designs and plans for an extension to the State house! * "Hie appropriation bill will be printed during: the night and placed on-the desks of the mem-, bers during the -morning.*-' Thefe will' hardly be any contests over the: bill as it has be6n given such- ' thorough oHi/lir o n ^ Via mnir?^*nr Vi q a Knan OIUUJ auu tuc pi uiuug auuc uao u^vu used,'by committee as far as-it ^ , . .. . 1 * . . ..: thought well so to do/ - * S ' * MR. AIKEN SPEAKS V ,! / ' ' ON I MMIGRATIOtf Before National House rof Re presentatives When BiU Was Considered. ' * Washington, Feb. 10.?While' the immi gration bill was being considered in the House. Representative Aiken mpde a speech which, though short explained very clearly the attitude of the people of; South Carolina on the immigration question. Aiken said: v . Mr. Speaker, while the section. ofj coun try that'Ihav^ the. honor' to represent has not as yet been affected by undesirable immigrants, the future may hold jfc?ater dangers unrestricted immigration; there than in any other section of the southland, or perhaps of the United States. South..Carolina is the second" eotton manufacturing; state in the Union. The people who operate the mills are our neighbors and friends,, bone of .our bone and flesh of our flesh T^ey are descend ed from the sturdy rac&i of northern Europe and their forefathers helped to wrest the country ffonr British tyranny. Our neonle.mav-nnt hfi snokAn'of in 'terms of caste or class. .We are people,'loving the countrj'that we have built up;, from savage wilde, respecting the laws- <?f the land, growing in wealth, and looking ever' forward for "better things, intellectually and morally. " ' " _ " - K Mr. Speaker1, we do not want these Ideal social and business conditions' to bfe dis turbed by thfrinflux of a lot. ofundesirtble -foreigners. Already .certain sections of this, country have beep overrun by ajarge foreign elements so large that f9reign Ideals aqd foreign issues^ have, displaced true American princlples^and fed "arid fbfr tered socialism and anarchy. . " Of course, 1' would not close thei door absolutely against the intelligent, ".well meaning immigrant.'This would be in consistent with the principles oil wMeh this government was1 .founded. Further more, su,oh a. step would not only be im practicable but impossible. - The-.comity, of nations requires that our alien laws be' reasonable, as the .laws, of other nations' must be reasonable toward us. If England should enact a law1" prohibit ing any American from 'taking up, resi dence withii^her borders, we would meet the insult wjth arms.. But-England may very reasonably prohibit the .lame, : the blind, the insane, the pauper, th$ anarch: ist, yes, and illiterate, ..of -this country from becoming citizens of her. domaih. And why? Because they become a charge, a tax on'her Better citizenship. TDey De come dlBturbers of the -peace. Theiy^ be-; come tools in the handsof designing men to drive honest labor out of- employment. This country, then, should not permit the, illiterate hordes of Europe to driveour own good people out of employment. The one main feature id which the'bill under discussion differs from the* present law is the test of illiteracy; land in my judgement this is-one of: the strongest features of; the bill. The - intelligent' foreigner is not willing to work at starva tion wages. It is the illiterate cla$s, those who have not the lntelligepce to depebd. on their wits, who could be herded like cattle ihto our factories to drive our home labor that we need to dread most. And I may add further, that it is the illiterate class of foreigners from whom our foreign criminals come. ... *' I live in a section ot the country where fully half the people are negroes. -The crime for which so many negroes pay, the death penalty outside the law is unac-. countable, I believe, in large measure :tP the Illiteracy of'that' race. ^ Negpoes with a smattering of education' commit forg eries, but they rarely assault' white women. It is aquestion with our people^ then, whether it is better to*'educate -the negro and elevate the character of this of fense or leave him an ignorant brute prone to' that greatest offense whfch means his death at the hands of the people who will not stand for this outrage as there is nothing so sacred to the southern white man aa the honor of the southern white , woman; and believing that in giving the negro some education ,we lesson the brutal tendencies, or we at 'least increase , his dread of certain vepgeance, we haye writt en a 3-rfiili school tax in our constitution, the proceeds of which'we divide with that race. Now thlfe burden Is' on' us. The negro was put in "the south "by the hand of destiny. Shall we look for -further-bur dens by admitting the Illiterate foreigner; who comes with his.-ideas of- anarchy and t J-a ml*- nrifh onH unntAminntA liliLLIUlCMlU/ ^ IA^ ^ ^jiwu^umu our purer Ameri<W citizenship? ... It haa been said t? a lion ate beef arid, pork and lain itbecame lion, and a dritlc wisely replied' that* if the lion ate spiled beef, pork and lamb he woUldf likely be a sick lion. -Just 'so; if this country takesin the worthless foreign element that is yearly.vomitedirom Europe, there will be congestion in our. cities .and an archy and crime on every hand. I repeat that, this country should never close its doors to the upright, healthy, intelligent foreigners, and I may add' that this country will grow less and less at tractive to the better element of foreigners as the country itself grows older and more like the mother countries. Free lands are a thing of the past here* and foreign farmers'of the type~that have built up the mighty west, now that the Panama canal Is opened, will seek homes In the Temper*-^* ate Zone of South America. The igrnorant laborer and the city drone are the classes of people who will seek to come In ever-Increasing numbers, and If we would preserve our Institutions, If we would preserve ourselves and our children in the heritage they have carved out of the wilderness, we must raise the bars against the worthless foreign element. "Within The Law." One of the gripping scenes in "Wi the Law," Bayard Vomer's successful n play of metropolitan life, which the .Ame: can Play Company fe to offer liere^at Opera HboM^on Thursday Feb/ 19. provi des the spectacle of a professional criminal confeselng|lj&''g?llt for a murder voluntar ,lly and goli&to his execution because of his devotion to a woman who befriended him in an hour of peril. This play has 'Itecentral^char^ct^ra pretty.yougp won convicted of crime of whicB she Is inooenfc, who, upon her release from prison is for* ced into warfare with the authorities, matching her wits and courage against police Jbrutality and adroitly avoiding the clutches of the'law, although she preys upon society iat will. The excellent cast engaged for "Within the Law" is in keep ing with the .standard excellence of the. production pf The American Play Go. the producers. ... . "Within The Iaw." The American Play Company, producers of-"Within the Law" announce that a pro- ~ ductlon of Bayard Venter's sensational dramajwill be made in all-civilized coun taies of the wogd. The play .seems to liave the 'punch' neceeary to paike it a worid-wide sucflte and the story lend it- / self to adaptation. "Withinthe Law" will " be seen in this city on Thursday Feb. 19. at the Opera House. k . ' . For Sale at Your Own Price. . The PJateGlasa inthe front of the store recently occupied oy A. B, Cheatham. ' ijutii.) 1L.1111 i iiw/j; Bankrupt's Petition for , ; Discharge. J In theDutriot Court of the United .. States for the District of Sbnth Oarolina. - V / - 1 rn the matter -of Tboe. H. Maxwell,, Bankrupt.?In bankruptcy. To the Honorable H. A. M. Smith, Judge of the DistrictCourt of the. > United States for-the District of * Sooth Carpjina: . Thoa. fl.j Maxwell, of"Abbeville, in ihife' County, of, Abbeville, and State of South Carolina, in said District, re spectfully : represents that dn the 11 day of December last past he was duly adjudged Bankrupt under the acts of Congress relating to Bankruptcy; that 'be has duly surrendered all bis prop erty and rights of property, and has fully complied with all the require ments of said acts and of. the orders of the Court touching his Bankruptcy. -Wherefore be prays that he may be decreed by the Court to have a full discharge from all debts provable against bis estate under said Bank rupt Able, except snob debts as are exJ cepted by law from snob discbarge. ^ . J ft J # n^L. A TV i/oieu (ais 2 u?y ui reu., a. ?j. 1914. . Thoe. H. Maxwell, ;X . * \ i. Bankrupt Order of Notice Thereon district of a a?sa: On this 4 day. of Febriiary, A. D. 1914, on reading the foregoing peti tion, It is? Ordered by the Court, that a hear ing be bad Upon the same on the 12th day of Maren, A. D. .1914, before ?aid Court at Charleston, S. C., in said District, at 11 o'clock in the .orenoon. and tbat notice thereof be published in The Press and Banner, a newspa per printed in said District, and that all known oreditocs.and other persons In interest may appear at the same time and place and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. And it is further ordered by the Court, that the Clerk shall send by mail to a)l known creditors copies of said petition and this order, addressed to them, at their places.of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable EL A. M. Smith, Judge of the said (Seal, of Court, and the Seal thereof the Court) at Charleston, S. C., in said District on the 4 of Febru ary, AVD. 1914. Bichard W. Hutson, Clerk U 8. D. C. S. C. Master's Sale. The State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville. H Court of Common Pleas, Mrs. Nettie Pruitt, Plaintiff, against ' J. Frank Clinkscales, Defendant By authority of a Decrqp.of Sale by the Court of Common Pleas for Abbe ville County, in said State, made in tje above stated case, I will offer for t .le. at Public Outcry, at Abbeville C. H., 8. C., on Salesday In March A. D.j 1914. within the legal hours of satle tbe fo owing d: scribed land, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and beiug in Abbeville County, in tbe State aforesaid, containing Fifty-one (51 8-10) Aces, more or less, and and bounded by lands of J. yol Pruitt, R. C. Branyan, J. R. Pruitt, and by the Publio Road leading from Honea Path toL.ttle River church, being tbe tract of land conveyed to tbe said J. Frank Clinkscales by J. T. Martin, and being tbe same tract of land theretofore con veyed by R, L. Branyan to Mre. Net tie Pruitt during tbe year 1907. Terms of Sale?Casn. Purchaser to pay for papers. R. E. HILL. Master A. C., S. C.