University of South Carolina Libraries
THE UNIVERSAL CAA ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. Edsel B. Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company, gives out the following statement: fi "Another reduction has been made in the list pric? of all types of Ford cars and the Ford truck toltake J? effect immediately. . The list prices f. o. b. Detroit are now as follow's : TOURING CAR .. $415.00 SEDAN... . $760.00 RUNABOUT .... 370.00 CHASIS . ..... 345.00 COUPE. 695.00- TRUCK-CHASSIS . 495.00 ' TRACTOR ... . ... . $625.00 ".The big reductions last fall were made in anticipation of low material costs, which we are now getting the benefit of, and this fact together with increased manufactur ing efficiency and the unprecedented demand for Ford cars, particularly during the past three months permitting maximum production, have made another price reduc tion possible immediately. "Ford business for April and May 1921 was greater *by 56,633 cars and trucks than for the same two months in 1920; in fact, the demand has been even greater than the supply, so that our output has been limited, not by unfilled orders, but by manufacturing facilities. "During May we produced 101,424 Ford cars and trucks, for sale in the United States alone-the biggest month in the history of our company-and our factories and assembly plants are now working on a 4000 car daily schedule for June. ' 'The Fordson tractor is still being sold at less than the cost to produce on ac count of the recent big price reductions, and it is impossible, therefore, to make any further cut in the price of the tractor." Can you afford to go without a car any longer when Fords are selling at these new low prices? There is no reason now why you should delay pur chasing a Ford car, Ford truck, or Fordson tractor. We will gladly advise you concerning the delivery of a Fordson tractor or the particular type of uar in which you are interested. Just phone us or drop us a card. WE SELL ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES Hr . Ix. Johnston, S. C. F*"" The Silver River. Silver River it is called, which seems to me a particularly appropri ate name, as it is entirely the out pouring of Silver Springs and not in creased by any streams flowing into .'it, or to any extent by surface drain age along its nine miles of length. Having transferred from the glass /bottom boat to a larger passenger boat that runs from the springs down the river, we broke through the trees and started to explore this river. ' I felt that we were intruding into na ture's secret places disturbing the peaceful order of things. The sur face of the water was smooth and quiet, and the trees very dense on both sides and ahead of us. I wonder ed at the size of the boat that ven . tured into this stream, no wider than the average street, for I was accus tomed to rivers, several times as wide, that were navigable for row boats only, but "still waters run deep." Mossy pillows, ever ahead of me, the colors were reflected from the water, and the bottom of the riv er was as clearly visible as that of the spring, and just as wonderful in its formation. Right in the middle of what seemed to me to be solid white rock of some kind forming the bot tom, I would see a perfect pillow of ' the softest kind of velvety moss. It would be perfectly formed, smooth edges, and seemed just ready to be lifted right up. A fringe of the same velvety growth-moss, I imagined would line the banks under the wa ter, and its beauty was greater, I am sure, on account of being seen through the water than it would have been growing on land. I would look up and see land just ahead with trees so near Icould touch them, and find that we were swinging right around a corner, and almost by the time we were around that we would come to another. Each one presented new scenic effects, both in the wonderful formation of the bottom of the riv er and in the foliage and trees that lined the bank. Never before had I seen the alli gator in his native home. Here and there one would swim across ahead of us, having been disturbed from his peaceful sunning' by our boat. Fish in size, variety and quantity to excite the most ardent. angler were swimming about under us in plair sight. All too quick, we approached th? point where the Silver River joins the Ocklawaha, that other wonderful river, which has its own startling sur prises and delights. The blending o? the crystal-like water of the Silvei River with the mystic, darker mirror surfaced water of the Ocklawaha was intensely inteesting as each strug gled to keep its own characteristics and to prevent the other from getting in its influence. Here in Florida Silver Springs is very little known and there has nev er been any special effort to inform the tourists of the wonderful beauty of these springs and the Silver River. I have just returned from a trip to Silver Springs and down the Silver River, and it has been a revelation to ms. I know of no place more won derful, more extraordinary, or more beautiful. It is something that one can talk on for hours, and not do it justice. Here in the thick forest near Sil -ver Springs Osceola, the great Semi nole warrior, was born at what is now Fort King, three miles from Peala. Here a grand council was held j between officers of the United States and the chiefs of the Seminoles. Os ceola, then a minor chief, and called by his people the Sad and Silent Man, sat mute and motionless dur ing the deliberations, and when the ranking chiefs had signed the treaty, Osceola was commanded to come for ward and sign. Walking to the table surrounded by the counsellors, he pushed aside the proffered pen, and, driving his hunting knife through the midst of the document, left it, walk ing from the council room, leaving behind him a deaf and dumb declara tion of war. The records of the human race fail to furnish the name of any other man born and reared a savage, who, for .ten years waged a war against a great a great civilized power. He was a fierce and implacable foe, skilled in all the Indian mode of warfare, a savage, barbarian; but as great a pa triot as the world has ever known. He deserves to be classed as one of our greatest generals. At last he was captured while under a flag of truce, by the United States, with eighty of his warriors, and placed' in Fort Mar ion at St. Augustine,, and on Jan uary 1, 1838 Osceola with 209 other Indians were transferred to Fort Moultrie, S. C., where he died with a broken heart. J. RUSSSELL WRIGHT. St. Augustine, Fla. McCormick Posse Pursuing Herbert Quarles Charged With Criminal Assault McCormick, June 18.-At 12 o'clock^tonight a posse of about 300 men, heavily armed, is still searching for Herbert Quarles, a negro, who is charged wjth criminal assault upon a highly respected white woman about 100 yards from her home, one mile west of Plum Branch, McCor mick county, at about 8 o'clock this morning. While the trail has been consistently followed at times, it seems that the negro has success fully evaded the possibility of being captured tonight, although the party in search of him continues deter mined to capture him, and should he be captured it is thought certain that he will be immediately tortured to death as a penalty for the alleged crime committed. The negro's alleged*victim lives in a sparsely settled community be tween the town of Plum Branch and the Savannah river, about 100 yards from her mail box, and it is reliably stated that she went to the mail box this mornning about 8 o'clock and negro, Herbert Quarles, who also lives nearby and who was at the time working in a field nearby, left his work and in some way caught the woman and immediately choked her and dragged her to a nearby wood, where he is said to have accomplish ed the crime. The victim is a married woman, about 30 years of age. Her husband was not at home at the time and she was choked, strangled or frightened into unconsciousness by the brute, who, it is alleged, after committing the crime, went to his own home, obtained his best clothes and immediately left with them un der his arm, wearing the overalls in which he had been working. Former Service Man. The negro, Herbert Quarles, is said to be an ex-service man, aboat 30 yea. s of age, six feet tall, weighing about 160 or 170 pounds and" bears anything but a good; reputation. He is said to have been accused' of a sim ilar crime upon a negro girl in the Callison section of this county about ten years ago but escaped punishment on account of a lack of evidence. He is also said to be the first negro sent to the chaingang in this county. He was convicted, of stealing several hundred dollars and served his time out. j . As soon as the alarm was given this morning a posse was quickly or ganized and went to the scene, but it was found impossible to get along through the woodland on his trail, and Sheriff Cannon Blease of New berry was wired for bloodhounds, which arrived about 2 o'clock this afternoon and immediately took up the trail for several miles. Thought Surrounded Once. People in the community reported having seen the negro pass going in the direction of Edgefield. At one time it was thought the negro was surrounded, but if so he successfully made a getaway from this woodland in which he was supposed to have been at the time. The dogs are still pn his trail, although the woods are 1 very thick and it is thought that he I is making his way to his father's, J who lives near Edgefield. Among those in search of the negro j are sheriffs from McCormick, Green- ! wood and Edgefield counties and I Sheriff Harrison of Lincoln county, Georgia.. It was learned late this af ternoon that the negro had gone to the home of his father-in-law and changed part of his clothing and ob tained something to eat. Some men appeared at the home, but he was watching for them and left as they approached the house and when they were half mile away. Negro Assailant of White Wo man Dies After He Confesses. McCormick, S. C., June 19.-Grim and determined, Judge Lynch sat upon a summary bench at four o'clock this afternoon and meted out swift death to Herbert Quarles, negro confessed assailant of a thirty-five year-old white married woman who resided near Plum Branch. Two thousand representative cit izens of contiguous South Carolina and Georgia territory formed a drag net through the district, after the as sault, through which no human could --?-?- - possibly pass. And the black was ai rested at three o'clock, his guilt wa definitely established, his identity de jtermined by his victim and his lif ! taken. The negro confessed his guilt, am told the posse: "Tell all the colore? people that this is the wrong thinj and tell them to try and be bette: people and never try the deed that I tried." After being identified by hi? victim he was taken to a point with in a graveyard in the clump o: woods where the crime was commit ted, just about one hundred yardi from his home and about .200 yard; from the home of the woman. A plow line was tied around his neck and ? trace chain around his body, and he was directed by the posse to climt a cedar tree selected for the hang ing. With the same degree of coolness he would have employed in climbing for an opossum the black seized the trunk and mounted the tree. He broke limbs and climbed until about fifteen feet from the ground. When he had reached this point a member of the posse went up and chained and tied him. A minute later as the white ( man reached the ground a volley of jfehots fully 5,000, was fired, killing the ne jgro instantly. His body was com jpletely filled with bullets.. He was left hanging to the tree. Men from *the crowd surged up and collected souvenirs from the body and scene, and scene. The lynching was one of the most cool and accurate executions in the history of mob law. It was the first lynching McCormick county has ever seen, and this particular mob denion stT r.tion has not been generally con demned as have th? majority of oth ers. Scores of negroes helped form the 2,000 man mob, and only two blacks were objectionable. These were the father-in-law and brother in-law of Quarles. When members.of the posse went to their house, where Quarles resided, and asked to search the premises, they were repulsed. .Whereupon they are said to have stripped the clothes' from the negroes, bound them to logs, and chastised them with sticks until the blood came from huge welts. The house was then searched, but the two negroes never did become entirely submis sive. The regular June term of court of general sessions for McCormick county commences here tomorrow, and accordingly officers pleaded that. the punishment of the negro be d? ferre dso that he might be tried. But their pleadings fell on deaf ears. The citizens from half a dozen counties were determined to carry out the work, and this they did^quietly and without show or demonstration. There are said to have been several Augustans in the posses who all Sat urday night beat the hills for the fu gitive black. Near morning hope lag ged, but the search was not relin quished. The dogs on his trail routed him out of a clump of brush some fifteen miles from the scene of the ! crime and about one mile from where he was reared. When the posse was. within ten feet of him he jumped out of his hiding place, holding his hands [up. Shots of alarm were fired, and more quickly than the telephone sys tem could spread it, news of the ar rest was relayed to Greenwood, Salu da, Edgefield, Aiken, Abbeville, New berry and Lincoln county, Georgia. Men from all these counties quickly arrived but many of them too late. From the spot where he was found i he was taken to the home of his vic tim and while there was no doubt on the part of those finding him that he was the right man, it was agreed that he should be taken before his victim for identification. When he confessed he endeavored to give no reason for committing the crime, but in his statement warned his racial brothers against committing such a deed. The woman assaulted resides be tween the town of Plum Branch and the Savannah River. Saturday morn ing, about eight o'clock she left her house to go to the mail box, SOO yards - away. The negro was working in an adjacent field. Looking up, he saw the woman, and ran toward her. Seizing her, he overpowered her and choking off her screams dragged her to a clump of woods nearby. After the deed was committed, the j negro fled. Sheriff Blease of New berry, wired for bloodhounds and a large posse was formed. Men from half a dozen counties, including Lin coln county, Ga., joined in the hunt. WEDDING PRESENTS: See Miss Eliza Mims' handpainted china be fore selecting your wedding presents.