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"TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FALLOW AS THE MCHffi By Steck, Shclur HugliM & Shclor. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNj Old Style Hulls C. W. & J. E MERCHANDISE J? WALHA IT PAYS TO B Note? from Litiu- River. Little River, Aug. 9.-'Special: The farmers of this section are hav ing plenty of rain, and have had for the past mouth. Crops are good con sidering the chance they have had, but they are not so fine as they were last year. Mrs. D. N. Alexander ls very sick nt this writing, but we hope to hear of her being well soon. Mrs. Lillie Whitten and two chil dren, of Walhalla, were welcome visi tors in this community inst week. Mrs. Whitton lived here before she married. N. A. Lusk, of Glenville, N. C., '.3 visiting his brothers, W. H. and L. G. Lusk, on Smeltzer Creek. Mr. Lusk is a prosperous farmer and re ports fine crops in his country. W. M. Perry is still improving. He has been confined to his room for some tinte, hu? is now able to sit up three or four hours at a time and can be carried out on Hie porch dur ing tho warm sunshiny days. We hope he will continue to improve and soon ho able to walk. Mrs. ,T. lt. Talley is spending a few days in Salem with her son, W H. Talley. Mrs. 'l'aHey hus been having fairly good health most ali the year. Wesley Galloway and family, of Oconeo Creek, were recent visitors of the former's father, A. R. Gallo way. Mr. Galloway ls a prosperous farmer of his section and always grows good crops each year. Melton L. Lusk is teaching tho Smeltzer school and ls having a good attendance. .Mr. Lusk is one of thc boys who saw service overseas, and says, "No matter whore you may go, 'There's no place like home'." It. W. Burgess, Jr., and brother, Chester,were visitors in Jocassee last Saturday and Sunday. They say times are always lively in Jocassee. George W. Mauldin, of Walhalla, spent tho latter part of the week at tho home of Charles D. Perry. Mr. Mauldin saw actual service overseas and received a flesh wound while doing lils part to battor the Hinden burg line. Misses Annie and Lillie Lusk and brother John, accompanied by Ilovey Graveley, of Pickens, were visiting relatives and friends of this section inst "/eek. R. K. NU BUGGIES, BUC Team Harness? Bi Whips, Wagons, ZZZZ CANE ) Evaporators, Mc Ral AUTOMOBILE TI All to go at R. K. NH SENEC eed Hulls. in 100-lb. Sacks, 1. Bauknight, MULES J? HORSES LLA., S. C. IUY FOR CASH. E. A. Perry made a business trip to Walhalla and Seneca last week. -Mr. Perry is nearing his eightieth birthday and is enjoying good health < and can look after the interests of his farms. He is now living with his only son, W. ?Vf, Perry. Miss Katie Moody, of Walhalla, spent last week with relatives and friends of this section. D. T. Madden, who has been sick for some time, doesn't seem to be improving. His many friends hope to hear of his recovery soon. Rev. William Holcombe will preach at Smoltzer school house the lirst Sunday in September at 11 a. m. Public cordially invited to at tend. Miss Bessie Alexander ls teaching the Whitewater school. Snc ts an excellent teacher and also makes a good Sunday school superintendent at Little River Raptist church. B. Smith and family, of Stamp Creek, were recent visitors at the former's mother-in-law's, Mrs. J. T. Talley. John Duckworth and William. J leary and Oscar Rampy, of Bickens, made a speedy visit in this section last Monday. Miss Arlie Bryson, who has been visiting her cousin, Dolt Bryson, for the past two months, has returned to her home at Pleasant drove, N.C. Will Barnes has gone to Virginia, where he will be employed as a bar ber. Mr. Barnes has just recovered from a case of typhoid fever. We were glad to seo him out. again. Ralph McCall made a business trip to Cashiers, X. C., last week. Elisha P. Holden, of Baltimore, Md., Is spending a thirty-day fur lough with home folks, Mrs. Alice M. Holden, and others. The Zachary Reunion. The annual reunion of the Zach ary family will ho held in Cashiers, N. C., on Saturday, the 30th of Aug ust. This will be tho twelfth reunion. We aro anxious that all the relatives and friends will attend, as It may be tho last time that many of us will be permitted tu assemble at the old homestead. Don't hunt up an excuse to be absent, ns this may bo the last reunion you will attend until tho "linnl reunion." Come and be with US. John R. Zachary. MMONS, ?CY HARNESS. ?idles. Lap Robes, Wagon Harness. MILLS, >wing Machines, les. RES AND TUBES, right prices. MONS, A, S. C. (??KAT PHILANTHROPIST HEAD. Andrew Carnegie Passed Away Sud denly at Home in Massachusetts. Lenox, Mass., Aug. ll.-Andrew Carnegie, ironmaster and philanthro pist, died to-day in his great man sion overlooking a lake in the beau tiful Berkshire Hills, wvere he sought seclusion when bodily lnllrm ity overtook him and his mind was s addened by the entrance of his coun try into the world war. Although he had been in feeble health for more than two years, his Anal illness was brief-a matter of days. A severe cold developed very quickly into bronchial pneumonia, the aged patient lapsed Into uncon sciousness, fend the end came as though lt were but the beginning of a deeper sleep. No ostentation will mark the fu neral of the man who, when he be gan, 18 years ago, to give away his minions, was reputed to have the second lnrgest private fortune in America. A simple service, attended only by members of his own family and household, will be held at the li onie, Shadow Brook, Wednesday. It is expected that the body will be taken to Pittsburg, tue city where ne laid the foundation for his great wealth, for burial. Mrs. Carnegie was at her hus band's bedside In the last hours of his life, but be did not revive suf ficiently to permit of any sign of recognition. Their daughter, Marga ret, who last April married Ensign Roswell Miller, of New York, was notified that lt was apparent that the illness would be fatal, and she hur ried from her home at Millbrook, N. Y., arriving a few minutes.af ter her father lind died. Years of Giving. Andrew Carnegie began a race agalnst^tlme when, in 1901, at the age of 65, he resolved to give away his enormous fortune. He held lt to bo "disgraceful" for a man to keep on gathering Idle millions. Un the comparatively few years which the actuary could allow him he would disembarrass himself of practically all he had. No man ever launched a philanthropic campaign of such di mensions His was then a fortune of just about a quarter billion dollars, the largest ever acquired by a forelgn born American, and second only to John D. Rockefeller's wealth as the ..argest individual accumulation In the United States; and, built as lt was. of 6 per cent steel bonds, it would, without so much ns turning over one's hand, have approached half a billion by the Hmo Carnegie could call himself an octogenarian, on November 25, 1915. To his native Scotland his largest single gift was a fund of $10,000,000 to aid education In Scottish univer sities. He carried out his pet Idea of a Hero Commission, endowed in 1905 with $5,000,000, by which hundreds of men, women and children have been rewarded with Carnegie med als or pensions for acts of heroism in the rescue of imperilled persons. He later extended similar benefac tions to several foreign countries. Some Cnmcgio Benefactions. Among the largest known bene factions of Mr. Carnegie the follow ing are mentioned: Carnegie Institute....? 22,000,000 Branch libraries in New York city . 5,200,000 Scotch universities.... 10,000,000 Carnegie, Institute, at Washington, D. C.. 21,000,000 Carnegie Steel Co. Em ployees' Benefit .... 5,000,000 Hero Commission .... 5,000,000 St. Louis Pub. Library. 1,000,000 Carnegie Hero Trust Fund, Scotland .... 1,150,000 Hero Fund, France... 1,000,000 Hero Fund, G erm.;?'v. . l.<Sv?0,000 Carnogin Dunifermllno Trust . 3,500,000 Hague Penco Temple.. 1,500,000 United Engineering So ciety . 1,500.000 Municipal Library Rids 00,000,000 Advancement of Teach ing in H. S., Canada, Newfoundland . . . . 10,250,000 $ I 58,350,000 Charged with Shooting Brother. Spnrtnnburg, Aug. 9.--Buster Cooker, eight years of -e, of Wood ruff, in Spartangurg county, was lodged in the county Jail yesterday on a charge of murder, having shot and instantly killed his little llve year-old brother Wednesday night. From tho evidence brought out at the coroner's inquest it appears that tho two boys wore alono in their audit's house, other members of tho family having gono to church. Tho younger, Fred Cookor, dashed a glass cf water into his brother's face while the latter was asleep. Tho older boy was awakenod and. lt is believed, crawled up-stairs into an attic and secured a single-barrelled shotgun, and with this almost completely blow his little brother's head off. Responsibility for tho crime was fixed upon Buster Cookor by the coroner's Jury. He Is believed to bo the young est defendant over arreatod In this county charged with a capital offense Probnto Court to bo Closed. Tho Probate Court will bo closod on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, Au gust 11th, 12th and 15th, 1919. V. F. Martin, Judge of Probate. THE OLD SOLDIERS TO GATHER. Picnic at Homily Land Next Friday. Miss Helen Kerry Dead. Bounty Lund. Aug. 11.-*-Spec I al: Come to the old soldiers' picnic at Bounty Land Friday of this week and have a good time. Don't forget to bring the "well-filled basket." This community is full of visitors, and many of them will take in the picnic Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Walker Foster and children, Misses Grace and Ruth, and Maurice Foster, of Jasper, Ala.; J. S. FOstei and children, Misses An nie, Clyde and Elizabeth, Tom and Jack, of Columbus, Miss.; Mrs. C. L. Foster and children, Charles and Paul, of Carrollton, Miss., and Mrs. W.C.Foster and children, Miss Edith, Will and Harold, of Walhalla, were the guests during the past week at the home of Mrs. E. D. Foster. Mrs. Young Dix and children vis ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Marett, in the Oakway section, the latter part of the "week. Those who visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Berry last week were: Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Berry and grand-daughter, MissVera Berry, Mr. and Mrs. R, J. Jenkins, Mrs. A. J. Major and Morris Berry, all of Fork Shoals, Greenville county, and Mr. and Mrs. Hen Berry, of Union. The many friends here and else where of Mr. and Mrs. TS O. Berry deeply sympathize with them in the death of their daughter, Miss Helen Gould Berry, which occurred at theh home Saturday, the 9th Instant, at 8 o'clock. Miss Helen was 13 years of age, her birthday being April 27?h. She hod been suffering for about two months from a large tumor of a cancerous nature on the lung. A post mortem examination revealed her condition to have been one of rare occurrence known to modical science, this conclusion having been reached by five prominent physicians from Chick Springs and Greenville, and Dr. J. S. Stribllng, of Seneca, who conducted the examination. Helen will he sadly missed in her home, where she was the idol of her j devoted parents, three brothers and one sister, and also In tho school and Sunday school, where, by her sweet, sunny disposition, she won the love and friendship of all who knew her. At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon her remains were laid to rest in West view cemetery, Seneca, the services being conducted hy Rev. I. E. Wal lace. J. D. and W. H. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Norman, of Hartwell, Ga., and .loo Hynum, of Anderson, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. IL Magill last week. Mrs. W. H. Crawford and daugh ter, Miss Laura, left. Friday after a week's visit, to the former's father, J. H. .Magill, who accompanied them to their home In Hartwell, Ga. David McMahan visited his bro ther, E. O. McMahan, of Marietta, Ga., last week. Miss Nettie Hubbard .spent a few days last week In Greer. Wilbur Land, of Hartwell, Ga., and Tom Rogers, of Rockingham, N. C. , were recent guests of friends in the communtt.y. J. E. Dendy and three sons, Mar shall, Willie and Joel, of Hartwell, are visiting relatives hero. Mrs. Stella Hopkins spout the week-end with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher Porter, at PIckens. John M. Hall, of Leon county, Toxas, ls with relatives here. Mr, Hall will take In the veterans' reunion here Friday, and Is antici pating a pleasant time with tho "boys of the sixties," many of whom he was well acquainted with years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Burt D. Moorhead, of Helena, Ga., spent the week end with Mr. Moorhoad's aunt, Mrs. J. D. Shnnklin. J. H. Wright visited last week In Greenwood. Waller McKlo and sister, Mrs. Tims, visited in Anderson last week. THE SCHOOL AT SALEM OPENED. Attendance Large-Interested in the bight Against. Illiteracy. Salem, Aug. tl,-Special: The Salem school oponed last Monday, August Ith, with a record-breaking attendance, If tho patrons of the school will only co-operate with the teachers by seeing that the children do not miss a day, wo will have the host school at Salem that we have over had. Tho teachers are Miss Ethel Davis, Mrs. Mary Kolloy, Miss Macle Holt, Miss .lossie Barker, with Sterling 101 rod as principal. Thoy are all teachers of moro or less experi ence, and seom to bo determined to do their duty and what is best for tho community. Although the school will work at a great disadvantage during the summer, wo hopo to have our now $10,000 school building ready for oc cupancy hy tho first of December. Land buyers and settlors will do well, therefore, to consider Salem In Book ing homos, for land values in this community aro going up ovory day. After? our new school building is finished Salem will havo school and church facilities second to nono. So if you aro looking for a progressive community, where the old Southern hospitality of tho mountains is still In vogue, and a healthy place In which to live, you had bettor Investi gate Snlom and the surrounding ter ritory before all of the modoratoly priced lands are disposod of. i We also hope to organizo a Lay-by SAYS MILLS MADE HI? PROFITS. Aiif1 that tho Producer wa? Untitled to Higher Pikes. Columbiu, Aug. ll.-The follow ing was issued to-day by the Ameri can Cotton Association: "The American Cotton Association through expert representatives has secured detailed information show ing the earnings of various cotton manufacturers In America since the year 1914. This statement is truly startling. The relations between the Southern manufacturers and the American Cotton Association have been extremely friendly. We havo not the remotest intention of criti cizing them. However, with the statement of earnings referred to above, it is absolutely impossible to reconcile the prices paid for raw cot ton with profits made by the manu facturers. These earnings in many instance's are stupendous and are cer tainly a safe barometer in Judging the ability of the mills to have paid a higher price for the raw material. We have no quarrel whatever with the mills for making enormous prof its. If they have violated any la^v along this line we are not even crit icizing them. At the same timo, how ever, we do feel that, with this in formation before us, the producer was entitled to a far higher price than has been paid for his product, and with information before us con cerning even recent, earnings, we unhesitatingly state that the produ cer is not receiving a fair price for raw cotton. These figures showing the earnings of the mills are abso lutely correct and official. Market Manipulations. "In addition to information con cerning the earnings of the mills our representatives have secured a great deal of information concerning the manipulations of the cotton market. . nese manipulations have cost the producer millions. Dry goods con tinue to ndvance; the demand ls far greater than the supply. Still, regard less of this, under the agitation, the prices for the raw material are beat uown. lt would seem that all laws against manipulating the cotton mar ket and depressing cotton prices are dead. Show us a single instance of a prosecution for depressing the price! We cnn point to you many violations of the law of supply and demand hy flagrant manipulations which resulted In unjustifiable de pressions. Truly some of these ma nipulations are startling-a reve lation, lt is unnecessary to refer to the fact that men who have bulled the cotton market have almost Inva riably been prosecuted, while men who have beat it down have never been prosecuted. Why is this? 'What ls sauce for the goose should also be sauce for the gander.' "Statistics secured from the very host sources on production and con sumption render it impossible to rec oncile published statements showing enormous surpluses. Why ls it that these surpluses fall to show the amount of spin na hie cotton? This is due to the fact that the producer is without friends. "Experts of the American Cotton Association are working along all of these lines, and every effort possi ble will be put forth to protect the interests of tho producer, and a thor ough and official investigation would reveal startling conditions. "The large packers aro to-day re ceiving what they aro due. Why not clean out the entire stable? 'It ls a poor rule that won't work both ways.' A man who hoards food and profi teers upon it most assuredly should be prosecuted. Tho manipulators who beat down the price of cotton, which has been produced by the toll and sweat of the farmer, most as suredly, in like manner, should be held to strict account. The packer charges such a price that the con sumer cannot buy. The manipulators beat down prices to starvation fig ures so that the producer has not I he money with which to viiy. This is six of one and half a dozen of ?he other-no distinction. Remove the grip of the manipulator to-day, per mit cotton to respond to the law, of supply and demand, and many peo ple will think that tho days of mira cles have not passed. Men In their greed and selfishness can violate and manipulate laws, causing the world to suffer, and escapo punishment. However, they cannot violate contin uously tho laws of Clod, which aro unchangeable. Artificial manipula tion of supplies will not. furnish cot ton to run the mills." Confiscate Hoarded Food. Richmond, "Va., Aug. 9.-United States District Attorney Hiram Smith to-day recolvod Instructions from Attorney Oenoral Palmor to lake (inmediato stops for confiscation of all foodstuffs found to have been unlawfully hoarded. School hero. Tho purpose of tho Lay by School ls to got the fathers and mothers who cannot read and write, nlso those who wish to become more proflclont In reading and writing, to como to school for two hours for threo nights a week, lt ls the duty of overy father and mothor, both to themselves and their children, to be able to read and write well. So if you aro interested soo tho principal of our school, Mr. Elrod, at once, as he will have to have a certain number be fore ho can organizo a class. WHIRLWIND COTTON CAMPAIGN Will bo Made During Uus Month for Cotton Assoc!ut lon Members. Columbia, Aug. 0.-Plans for tho whirlwind membership campaign to be conducted by the South Carolina Cotton Association the last of this month provide for a mass meetus to le held in every county in the SKte during the four-day period from Aug ust 19th to '?2d, inoluslve, tho week prior to the membership campaign. B. P. McLeod, state manager, has secured a number of the very best speakers in the St^ite for those mass meetings. They are men who aro interested in the movement, and be cause of their desire *o soo it suc ceed have offered their services tor these meetings. Mr. McLeod states that he will, within the next few days, prepare the itinerary for the Bpeukers and will advise each of the county chairmen the date fixed for the meeting in his county and tho spoakers assigned for his county. The prospects for success of the membership campaign in South Caro lina ure exceedingly bright, declared Mr. McLood to-day. "South Caro lina will rally splendidly to the sup port of the cotton association," he said, "because our people know of the magnificent work that lt has done. We hope to secure a minimum of 50,000 members in this State. I believe we will not be disappointed. Every farmer, merchant, banker and professional man in the State is asked to join, and we believe that most of them will. The organiza tion of the farmers, merchants, bank ers and professional men of the South offers to this section the great est opportunities it has ever had." The dues for membership in the association from date of application for membership to January 1, 1921, will be 25 cents per hale of cotton produced in 1917, and 25 cents ner thousand dollars of capital invested in mercantile and other classes of business, bunks or manufacturing plants. Professional men will pay $3 each. The duos for 1921 and 1922 will be 10 cents per bato of cotton and 10 cents per thousand dellars of capital per annum. Those dues will Include the subscription to tho "Cotton Journal" to be published by the American Cotton Association. EIGHT DIE IN ELEVATOR WRECK Scores of Persons Injured-Loss is Over Million Dol?ais. Port Colborne, Ont., Aug. 9. - leight persons were killed und a score were injured-soven of them seri ously-in un explosion which wreck ed the large government grain ele vator on the Welland Canal hero this afternoon. Pour of the bodies havo been recovered, ono has boon located in tho debris of the elevator, and throe others aro in tho wreck of tho bargo Quebec, which lies on the beach outside the harbor, whore she was towed to prevent her sinking. The llnancinl loss is estimated at vi,800,000. Spontaneous combustion is believed to have caused the explo sion. The superintendent of tho eleva tor, D. S. Harvey, was among the in jured. Tho explosion occurred shortly af ter tho elevator hands returned to work following their dinner hour. The concussion shook tho whole town and windows In nearby buildings were smashed. Plomes spread through the wreckage but because of fireproof construction thoy soon burned out, and an hour after the explosion rescue parties were at work. The bargo Quobec, moorod at an elevator leg, was smothered under a pile of wreckage as she keeled over, and a hugo rent was torn in her sido by a block of concrete. To pre vent her sinking she was towed out side the breakwater and beached. Tho olevator was built eight years ago nt a cost of $2,000,000. It had H capacity of moro than 2,00 ',000 bushels and the bins wore said lg bo about one-third filled .with grain, mostly wheat. .II ---.???? REUNION ORR'S REGIMENT. (bithering this Vertir Will bo thc 47th Annual Kennion. Tho forty-sovonth annual reunion of Orr's Regiment will .ho hold at. Pendleton on Thursday, August 28, and at Sandy Springs on Friday, tho 29th. All Veterans will be convoyed to Sandy Springs on the 29th by autos. All Veterans aro cordially invited lo meet with us. W. T. McGill, President Reunion Association. (Anderson, Oconoo and Picken? papers are requested to copy this notice.) -> i? Pi'OHOCUtrix to bo Indicted. Columbia, Aug. 9. - Governor Cooper last night granted oight par lous, paroles and commutations, and ?among those rocelvlng executive clemency was King Taylor, who was convicted in January, in Spartan hurg county, on tho charge of rape, and sentenced to sorve flvo years. Thc recommendation for clemency was mado by tho pardon board, tho trial Judge and tho solicitor, and a full pardon was granted. The prose cute filed an affidavit with the Gov ernor that the defendant was not guilty. Tho board also recommended that tho prosocutrlx be prosecuted for porjury. _