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"18 I^^U]?D SXMI-WEEKL^ L u.OEisrs SONS. PiUuhen. j' % 4amil8 fnrajajwt: 4?r <M promotion of th* Joliliqal, gonial, Sgri^nltal and Commeiiriat Interests of th< feojt*. | E3TAB1I8HED18S5- YORKVILLE. 8. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1913. 3STO. 79. The Mir By CHARLES T] Author / D'he Day / Soal (Copyright lilt. The Bobba-Merr CHAPTER XXVI?Continued. Aurelle was flying to him. The outi-? a?An?aha Xiin? herself IttW UIU iiVW ??vy? Wt.v ? ? ? against him, clasping him, looking up; and John put his stub of an arm about the girl, holding her closer as if to shelter her, and came on, his Winchester swinging up to his other shoulder as he strode. He flred squarely into the line of his advancing enemies. A man dropped; he flred again, again, again, cool, sure, merciless, the mutter of a prayer upon his lips, the pleadings of the girl within his ears. But he would not stop. The God who ruled above man's petty justice was with him; he had come forth to save his wife and children from the hurricane of bullets slivering his home, but he yielded nothing. The girl clinging to him was trying to reach hla neck, seeking to a raw mm down, to kiss his gaunt lined cheek, It seemed. And he did stop. They saw his left arm swing the ride down until he was clasping Aurelle, listening to her, moved by her. Then from the groups of men about the cottage, who could not see what thos* on this side could see, came the i u?n of another voley. From the fence JaJanet knew a great silence had ing out his hands, and then stopped to stare through the thickening ( smoke about the cottage. Janet knew a great silence had come. Van Hart's Hne of men had stopped. They were staring?all the hundreds of people were staring. Janet knew Llndstrom was down, rid -' died by the deputies behind him. And that Aurelle had fallen not twenty vard* from her old home. The roses she had clung to as she ran lay red and scattered about her on the frozen clods. Cur ran was kneeling by her. And the silence held as if earth and sky?the gray lonely land with a glint of sun through the clouds?had hushed her, had hollowed to hold the| agony that broke from Curran's heart. When Janet and Arne reached them, Curran had turned Aurelle's; face upward. Curran himself was bloody from a tassel of a wound torn across his forehead. Men were in and about the bullet-swept and burning house, kicking away the barricade of boxes from the door. Under the window they found Ladeau dead, his lips forever sealed, and in another room lay Albert the peddler, his piteous life come to the Inevitable nothingness. The women and children burrowed in the cellar, cold, starved, were unhurt But out on the frozen field a group had formed. Curran knelt to watch his child's face. Harlan had dismounted and was staring. He could not speak as Curran wiped the blood from his eyes and muttered: "She kept crying for you to stop. Couldn't you hear? Crying to you, Harlan, to stop. That she loved you ?with all her soul she loved you!" The other man's lips moved uselessly. Then he turned to the others. "Your machine, Arne! Quick!" Stooping, he seized the girl's body. The father clung to her and it was as if the two were fighting for her possession. Then Harlan whirled back, with the blood from her lips staining his shoulder. "Keep back, Wiley. The machine?quick. . . . Home." And as they all ran, Cur * KonH in his ran irj injj iu ncc^ ?v. ?, as it hung from Harlan's arm, the younger man kept murmuring: "I didn't know?God help me, Wiley?I didn't know." They thrust Old Michigan aside in the car and were in. The two men seemed again struggling to hold her, as the machine ground off through the field. Janet was conscious of the awed white faces?thousands of them, it seemed?along the roads to town. Only they knew that "Michigan's girl" was being borne from her old home now shot-riddled and burning and that the outlaw of the Pocket was dead. They could not hear Mich's bewildered mumbling in the car. or Wiley Curran, as he shifted his child's body from the widening pools of blood on the cushions, whispering: "Calling to you, boy, Just kept on go Ing?calling that she loved you!" The car was in the Van Hart yard. Harlan dragged his burden from them, silent, fierce with possession. He laid her on a bed on the lower floor before his mother knew of their entrance. In the hall Janet Vance was trying to comfort Michigan who babbled on about his little girl?the little girl he had done brought upriver. They were trying to take her away from him?they would not let him touch her. The Yankees had killed her, some way or other. The Judge's wife touched Harlan's shoulder as he knelt: "Telephone for the doctor," he said?"for Brown and Lenberg both. And a nurse. Go!" He stopped the question on her ??? r\Auror Hps, a young uaesar grtupiue as her Roman matron's pride in him would have had. She turned and went out without word to the telephone. In the hall she found Michigan. a shaggy animal tortured beyond further outcry, swaying his head and whispering: "Done come ?done come. Lord." When she went back the two men were by Aurelle's side. They had been muttering to each other. Curran was staring at the younger. "You knew?last night? How could you know?" "Father told me. And Tanner? We choked it out of him. And no one else knows. Wiley. Ladeau is dead?and Tanner dares not speak. I'd swing him to the pen?as I'll drive him out of the county!" Then Harlan's new-found wonder broke again. "But your little girl, Wiley!" "Yes?God help me. I let her grow up any way?without care, without love. Just fighting her own way, al r>KW)4<ir4'Cir)4<K>44N)>i )LANDERS ENNEY JACKSON !i, My Brother's Keeper, Etc. Ill Company.) | ways! I never could understand what moved me so about her?tne aengni sne gave me. And you, boy?you thought" ?he whispered it?"she'd come between us! Why, she loved you always ?put it away in her mighty pride? but loved you always! Why, with all her laughter and her playing I never dreamed of loving her as you did. Oh, the wonder of it! She led me on to her land of Joy!" "Be still!" the younger man muttered. "She's trying to say something. Home! She's home now?" Harlan's eyes went to his mother cool, fair, listening by the bedside; he dipped his arm down about Aurelie's head to watch the deck of crimson on her .ip"Home, mother!" The mother put her hand upon his shoulder; the other on Aurelie's brow. "You'd better go now. The doctors are here. She's shot low in the side, win you leave her a moment?" Curran was moving to the door. But Harlan, as he tried to rise, found Aurelle's Angers stealing through his hair; he was listening to his name upon her lips. Mrs. Von Hart was with Curran as he passed out. With a gesture she held out her hand to him. "There are things beyond us all. Mr. Curran. Depths of life that move and sweep us all to things we have never dreamed?that we can not evade or compromise. And so we accept?with courage and with gladness. I am sorry?humbly sorry . . . will you believe me?" He looked long at her and his face did not soften. "A ' word from you?a kind word? any little gracious act would have changed it all. Would have given her to Harlan long ago and saved us this. It's hard to forget"?his brief smile came bitterly: "All this life of hers that you held cheap, unworthy?her love for your son kept her good and fine and simple through it all . . and that meant nothing to you." 'Tm sorry." the mother whispered. "He will have his way?and we accept. Some day shall we tell her all?" "Yes. But not now." "Why not now?" The mother stirred in the doorway. "She is not so badly hurt, they say. And Harlan is trying to explain. What is greater than the truth for her?" Curran stared at her, holding her cool fingrs for an instant, then looking in the half dark of the room. "Tell her?" he muttered. Then drew back. But a sound from within came to him. Aurelie's tired smile had ended in a sigh with Harlan's murmurings. The physicians had stood apart. Curran went in. The mother in the hall, coming: nearer from the telephone presently, heard a cry, then all their voices low and awed. She looked in as she passed, for she would not enter. The men were on either side of the bed holding Aurelle's hands. Mrs. Van Hart could not hear what they said, the girl lying white-faced and still, and the men bending to her. But after a while Curran rose and came out. The mother In the hall saw him pass, and the glitter of tears was on his cheeks. He found Janet in the window-seat as he reached the door. The mother heard his voice rise Joyfully. "She said that dreams come true. Janet! Yes?gooa areams, cnua areams like those that sent her out to find and love me. Oh, you should have heard her say it, Janet! Father?the proudness of it on her lips!" Janet went with him out into the bleak night. "Where are you going. Wiley?" "I don't know. Yes?back to the shop ?my old shop. I thought of leaving? selling out, for no one'll ever understand. But I'll stay -I'll fight It out. Face it all with sile .ce?the defeat and questions?and fight it out?for Aurelle's sake. It's safer?it's better for her, Janet." They were passing HJgh street, along which a few people were still coming. The thousands had melted away from the tragic field out the creek road. They rrnsspri the sauare. and at the corner of his office he stopped. The lights were coming here and there in the stores, but the place seemed yet deserted, so still that the creak of the frosty trees on the bluff came down to them. Curran paused while Janet tore the hem from her skirt and bound again his forehead where a buck-shot had furrowed it. "What an election day!" she whispered. "I don't think half the county vote was cast, Wiley. But there's the Mercury-Journal carrier coming from the interurban?and the polls closed at six." He had no word as he watched her buy a paper from the boy. When she i turned, he had gone in the News office i and was looking at the grimy old press and the worn cases. "Come here. Wiley!" "Yes?" He went over and looked down with somber eyes to the sheet she had spread upon his desk. "The Lindstrom story" had five col -* ? Dn? ontwuo tho nthpr UIIIIIS Wi llic Ltviu. uul UVi v/oo V..V two was this head: "Concede Curran's Election." He looked up at Janet with a mutter: i "Election? Didn't they see the News i last night?" "No. Come out in the back yard, Wli ley." 1 He followed to where she pointed to the heap of burned paper half-way along the path to his cottage. r "For the first time in fifty years there was no issue of the News this week!" She was laughing at his hei wilderment. "To-morrow,, when the i excitement is over, peop!e'll wonder , why?but they'll never know!* > "They?they elected me!" "Of course. And the Tanner board , will resign?every one of them!?and Thad, too. from the county chairman> ship! Oh, Wiley, we played more than : politics yesterday! Ask Harlan!" He sat down. "Harlan? It's up to deling romance in me that I never could put by! Eh, I'm forty, now?I'm a damned fool! Well, it's the long straight road, now?for me." "To Washington," she murmured. "And always on! Oh, Wiley! I'm proud that when the blow fell you did not cringe nor whimper! You did not run away?you came back here tonight to work again!" He looked at her with a trace of his old humor lightening the sadness. "Because of you, Janet. And Harlan, and a few?Just as you've always aone: Help?oh, how I need help!" He buried his face in his arms upon the desk: "I need you, Janet. I can't do without you ?I never could, damn me?but I didn't know it! Washington . . I want you . . . Tou sent me there." She was laughing in a curious abnegation as she placed her hand down to his head. "You can't do without me, Wiley! When your old boy's romance was at its best, I knew you needed me the worst. I saw it in your eyes?always! The new efficient woman?the helper, the companion?" "The near woman?the dear woman ..." he murmured. They did not hold each other in long embraces, gazed into each other's eyes or murmur unutterable things. They were man and woman, tried and knowing. They would see each other with magic clearness, love each what the other loved and work all their lives long for that and for the amazing interest they had in each other. That would be living. "Eh! Those youngsters!" cried Wiley out of this fine understanding. "There's the problem?it's all before them to work out. Ours is quite done, dear!" When they came back from Washington at the end of Curran's second term?where, by the way he achieved a far better name as a humorist than a statesman?they drove up High street and the thought was with them both? how had the problem worked its way out. They saw Aurelie chasing her two babies over the Van Hart lawn trying to recapture them to place In the carnag's. The lively ingenuous wife, still the happy little outlaw in th eyes of High street, never able quite to hit it off with her mother-in-law, but uncaring for that. At least she had held the adoration of her husband through the uprise of his lighting life, pleased his fHends and discomfited his enemies with equal gaiety. She ran across to meet them, and to lift her black-eyed boy to Mr. Curran. "We're getting up a charity fiesta? and I'm going to appear at the tin opera house as Cinderella. I think everybody'll come to see me?It makes Buch a difference who one is. Uncle Mich says at last we done come to the land o'joy!" ttte mi) TO REFORM PRIMARY. Special Convention of State Executive Committee to Take Matter Up. News and Courier. Columbia, September 30.?According to the terms of a resolution passed by the state Democratic executive committee last summer, following the investigation Into the charges of Irregularities at the primary, a committee of seven was to he named by State Chairman John Oary Evans to suggest needed changes In the primary rules and constitution of the party and to report to the meeting of the entire committee, to be called some time prior | to January 1, 1914. Whatever action the committee takes, or $ny modifications or amendments, they agree on looking: to safeguarding: the primary, will be reported to the next Democratic state convention, which will assemble in Columbia on the third Wednesday in May, 1914. While no announcement has been made by Chairman Evans as to the appointment of the sub-committee of seven, there is every reason to believe they have been selected and are at work. It was not stipulated that their names should be made public and the fact that no announcement has been made does not mean that the resolution to draw up changes through a sub-committee has been Ignored. Rather, it is safe to presume that the resolution is being carried out and that the sub-committee is now at work. Obviously they could do better and more effective working out of details How warn tholr nnmpa tn mfldp nub lie. for then they would be harassed and hampered by all kinds of suggestions and opinions thrust upon them. The proposed radical changes to be made to safeguard and prepetuate the white primary is a herculean task, requiring the undivided attention and brain work of the ablest members of the state executive committee. It is confidently believed in political circles that the sub-committee will report to the full state committee to be called together by Chairman Evans some time before the first of the year, In pursuance of the resolution. Reform of the primary will be the issue before the Democratic clubs, the various county conventions and the next state convention. The clubs meet on the fourth Saturday in next April to organize ana eiect ueieguies 10 uic| county conventions and they In turn gather the first Monday In May. It Is apparent, therefore, that the winning of the battle depends on the control of the club meetings. Advocates of primary reform will be bitterly fought, for there are men who will bitterly oppose any change in the present rules of the party. The doctrine of letting every man who has a white skin vote has predominated in South Carolina from the Inception of the primary plan of selecting the candidates of the Democratic party. Restriction of the right to participate in the Democratic primaries to registered voters will have its backers, but the main fight will be to adopt some plan and some method which will put an end to irregularities and do away with the present wide-open system, which is conductive to repeaters, floaters, and other forms of irregularities creeping in, not to mention the opportunity of systematic working of such resources. The next legislature will be given the opportunity to pass on a bill reforming the primaries, but those In touch with the situation look for little from the lawmakers at the next session along this line. The Nicholson hill tichtcnine: the primary could not get through at the last session, and as the coming meeting of the general assembly will be the last of the present body and on the eve of another election, those advocating and wanting primary reform, count on very little being done. Any reform will come, they helieve, from the next state convention. or if it falls there, then the present wide-open system will remain as heretofore. The fight begins in the club meetings next April and those wanting the reform may as well prepare for action then, or else give up the fight. piSttHanrous Reading. TO CONTROL 8TATE CONVENTION Governor Blease Hat in View Capture of Party Machinery. Ni>w8 and Courier. Columbia, September 30.?Leaders of the Blease faction in the Democratic party in South Carolina will meet in a conference in Columbia * during fair week, to map out plans for capturing the next Democratic state convention and controlling the election machinery of the Democratic party. This announcement was made today by Governor Blease, in conversation with the News and Courier representative. The conference will be partlcpated in by the Blease leaders from every county In the state. It is likely that the ball room of the Jefferson hotel will be used as the meeting place for the conference. The call for the leaders to come to the conference has already gone out. Administration leaders at every county seat and in every section of the state have been summoned to gather in Columbia for an Important meeting during the week of the state fair. The conference may last two days. Plans for a run attendance 01 me Bleasltes at every Democratic club meeting: next April, when they assemble to elect delegates to the county conventions, will be talked over. Through control of the club meetings the Blease forces plan to capture the county convention, or a majority thereof, and through them the next state convention, which meets In Columbia on the third Wednesday In May. Control of the county convention will Insure control of the state Democratic executive committee and the state convention, and thus place the machinery of the Democratic party, under which the primary elections are held. In the control of men friendly to Governor Blease. Any radical changes in the rules and constitution of the party will be defeated if the Blease forces carry out their plans and capture the next state convention. Governor Blease, in talking this morning, said he believed In every white man being allowed to vote, believed in letting him go to the polls untramelled. either by money persuasion or threats of losing his position. He said he and his faction would favor every plan which would afford the freest expression of the will of the white people, but they will fight to the uttermost any restriction of the primary to registered voters, or anything which will make it cumbersome and burdensome on the voters casting their ballots. Former Governor John Gary Evans, the present chairman of the state Democratic executive committee, and the others who are at present prominent in the running of the party, are marked for slaughter by the administration forces. If the Blease forces control a majority of the county conventions throughout the state next May, there will be a complete overturn of the election machinery officials. Chairman Evans and his fellow workers of the antl-Blease faction will be relegated to the rear an<) new men, high in standing with the present state administration, will be placed at the helm of the Democratic party. At the Blease conference here fair week the plans will be mapped out to the smallest detail and the leaders will then return to their various home counties and pass the word around for all the Blease voters to attend their club meetings In force. "We are not going to be caught napping, as was the case last year," said Governor Blease this morning, referring to the overwhelming manner in which the antl-admlnistration people captured club meetings, county conventions and the state convention in 1912. "We are going to have a full attendance at every club meeting In the state and we propose to capture the county conventions. Rest assured we are going to control the next Democratic state convention," emphatically declared the governor. The plans for the Blease forces to control the conventions and election manhinarv novt vonn wprn fnrmpd rlarht on the heels of the re-election of Governor Blease last summer. Leaders of that faction of the party have been working on the details ever since and they have called the conference for fair week to put these plans Into action, and perfect such other details as will be deemed advisable to carry the matter to a successful conclusion. Following the conference, according to the governor, several public addresses will be issued to the voters of the state, urging them to attend their next club meetings, This matter wjll be emphasized to the voters friendly to the administration. "The conference." said Governor Blease, "which will be held here of his faction during fair week will be open and above board." While some of the meetings may be executive sessions, still the governor Js of the opinion that many of them will be open. "We are not going to carry on any underhand fighting; we are going at the matter open and above board and we are go tng to Win," concilium! me guvemui. CASE OF HARRY COLEMAN Unnatural Son Who Murdered Hia Father. Union county has again proved that It has men who, when serious, difficult and delicate duties are entrusted them will act Justly and fairly for the entire citizenship in standing for that which will mean better enforcement of law an 1 order, and this despite the general Relief that no conviction could be had 'in the Harry Coleman case. It was not because the public generally believed Harry Coleman innocent that they prophesied and expected another mistrial, but because there was lacking a faith in the honesty. Integrity and intelligence of the men who might be placed on thd Jury to try him. But in this, as in other cases, popular reeling naa oeen in lounuea, iur nieic are an many law loving, sterling and upright men and Jurors here as there are In any county anywhere. The main trouble seems to be that the people at large have not enough confidence In men, nor a strong enough desire for the enforcement of law, and by this very doubtful attitude condone and make more possible trlffiing with Justice. The Coleman case is perhaps one of the most remarkable that has been tried in Union county in decades, if ever before. At the third trial the prisoner at the bar appeared as callous when confronted with evidence as to his low moral status, of his drinking and gambling with negroes and other disreputable conduct as when his case was first tried, and in the face of the strong circumstantial evidence that It was he who, without mercy, assassl nated his aged father while the latter was alone and unconscious of Impending danger, he did not shift his gaze or ( give any sign of emotion. Judge Devore well said that the Jury In recommending mercy had asked for a degree of clemency toward the prisoner, which the young man himself j had apparently not felt or exercised { toward the parent who in countless ways, and for years had provided him ( with his necessities and pleasures, set- . ting: him an example of honest, upright living, and endeavored to train him in a way that would make him a useful citisen. The thought of this aged man shot down and dying in his own life-blood, without opportunity to raise a finger In his own defense, should haunt the murderer to his dying day, and If there should be any who have a guilty knowledge of this crime and who have remained silent up to this time, as there Is a God in heaven who stands for Justice, and who will avenge the shedding of innocent blood, so with grim certainty will the one having Such knowledge be tormented and tortured of mind and body until in their anguish they will some day cry out and let the truth be known. Comment on this case would be incomplete without referring to the able maimer in whiuu mo yiiwovuuun w?o conducted by Solicitor A. EL Hill. Though young in years and by many considered immature in experience when he sought the office of solicitor, and for that reason opposed by those who wished to have such an officer to be more mature and versed in law, Solicitor Hill has surprised his friends as Well as those who did not vote for him, by his force vigor, yet withal fair manner with which he has represented the State and endeavored to see that the law was enforced and criminals punished. And the very fact that having Sn officer who is wide-awake, earnest and has the ability to see when by exercising quickness and discretion he can checkmate efforts that he considers might tend toward frustrating justice, will come to make the public regard the law more -seriously than it has been, and accordingly will cause Justice to be better administered.? Union Progress. c * ' c ETHIC8 OF THE HOR8E TRADE * c Take Your Medicine and Do Not g Squeal. e The Anderson Intelligencer of Tues- a day prints a human Interest story Ii from the records of the governor's pf- t flee aa follows; i STONE, FRANK. (WHITE), Con- t victed at the fall, 1912, term of oourt c for Laurens county of obtaining goods I under false pretenses and sentenced to e pay a fine of f300 or imprisonment c upon the public works of said county f for a period of thirty days, 1 seems that thJS party and the t prosecutor traded horses, and that this a is what brought about the indictment, t From the evidence presented in the g case, it shows that the horse was sup- t posed to have been blind in one eye 1. and partially blind in the other. This c was a defect which could have been ? very easily detected by both parties. a There Is no excuse for a man saying that a blind horse has been put off on d h|m, unless he was either blind or I drunk at the time, and there is no evi- c dence to show that the prosecutor was i either, Therefore, he should have been t too much of a man to complain, for 'e the only purpose people have for trad- r ing horses Is to Improve. If A trades |> with B, A expects to get the best of v the bargain, or A would not trade, r When B trades with A, he believes he s got the best of the bargain or he would t not have traded. Therefore, when elth- t er one of them gets stunff. there should b be no complaint. The case was appealed to the supreme oourt, and the fol- v lowing |s the dissenting opinion of As- r soclate Justice Watts: t "I dissent from the opinion of the r chief justice, herein, and think the t motion to quash the Indictment should d have been granted, as It did not state e any-criminal offense. The allegations t that the defendant represented that * the bay horse was sound could not be r any more than the opinion of the * party making the statement he was, It a he made a false statement knowingly that he was, might be sufficient toren- f der him liable for damages In a civil a action. Parties trading horses are al- 1 lowed latitude In expressing the opln- o Ion of their horses, and trade generally e with intent each to get the better of 1 the other, and under the evidence of I the case the trial Judge should havedi- I rected a verdict of acquittal, as the t evidence of prosecutor, himself, show- t ed that the defect in the horse, com- li plained of, was patent, not latent, and 1< by the exercise of the slightest care, I by examining and using his eyes, he t could have ascertained that the horse's eyes were defective, and under the e evidence and tne case or stare vs. i^ei- ? gon, 1 Bay. 3B3, quoted by the chief 1 Justice, the motion of defendant to dl- t rect a verdict should have been grant- C ed. That the state has succeeded In u convicting the defendant on testimony, s which In my opinion It Is doubtful If F the prosecutor would win In a civil suit t for damages against defendant where o he could recover If he make out his a case, by a preponderance of the evidence only. For these reasons I dls- t sent." t I heartily concur In Judge Watt's a opinion, and wish to add that up to F the time I was twenty-two years old, t I was continuously trading horses, and f I always traded with my eyes and ears 1 open, and whenever a man got the best t of me, If one ever did, I took my medl- ? cine and did not make a howl about 1 getting stung. 1 T?. nJJUInn In tho nnininn nf .Tildarp 1" Watts, petition was presented in which h it is stated that the signers thereto know the defendant, Frank Stone, and a "we do not believe he was guilty. We, P therefore, humbly petition your excel- P lency to grant unto the said Frank t Stone a full and free pardon." This I petition is signed by the sheriff, pro- fc bate Judge, county auditor, deputy a clerk of court, H. S. B'.ackwell, Esq., member of the house of representa- a tives, former Clerk of Court John M. 1 Cannon, James T. Crews. Magistrate a Crews, and many other best and most J substantial citizens of Laurens coun- 1 ty. < Upon this showing the defendant is t granted a full and free pardon. Par- r don dated September 25th, 1913. c JUDGE WILLIAM SMITH Dnly Man to Go from York County to United States Sonets. The editorial statement reproduced in the last Issue of The Enquirer that rudge Smith of Yorkville, was the eader of the first successful revolution igainst the political dominance of the :lty of Charleston and the Episcopal :hurch In South Carolina, gives pres snt Interest to the sketch or Judge Smith that was printed In Dr. Moore's 'Reminiscences of York." This sketch vas as follows: The "limb of the law" which first engrafted its destinies with those of the trowing town, was of material which ifterward formed a strong plank In he bench of the state. William Smith?later Judge Smith? vas the first resident lawyer of Yorkrille. I have always thought he was rom Lincoln, and am still under the mpression, though a biographical ikntoh of him nubllshed some years igo by his granddaughter, says he always spoke of himself as a South Carilinlan; and she had a vague impresilon that by the adjustment of the >oundary lines between North and louth Carolina, his birthplace was hrown from the latter into the former. think if she is correct in believing the itate of his nativity changed by a new lurvey, It is probable she got the facts eversed. A portion of York district formerly telonged to North Carolina. It formed l portion of a county called Tryon, trhich also Included the present counles of Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, etc., n its boundaries. The court house of [*ryon was located near where the road rom Salisbury to Smith's ford, on 3road river now crosses the road from forkville to Lincolnton, known as the King's Mountain" road." For this loality I am Indebted to Rev. S. L Wation ; but neither he nor I can designate he Doints of lines which then formed he boundary between North and South Carolina. Judge Smith received the first elenents of his Latin under Dr. Alexanler, but finished his course within the lme-honored walls of Mount Zion colege, Wlnnsboro. That he was a man if the first order of intellect, the variius positions of eminence to which he ras preferred, undoubtedly prove. His areer furnishes to young men a most ncouraglng example, portraying the trength and accuracy. Much of his ffect of ambition, energy, perseverance and sobriety. His parents were tappily able to give him a good educalon and profession. His further patrlnony was but good advice and a bless ng. Two young men who were his ontemporaries?Simon Taylor and Job H|U?dashed about In their sulkies in the circuit, while Smith rode a hunk of a horse, carrying saddle-bags tiled with law books. In the race of Ife, how far he ran ahead! They were he fonihf wealth and had not the tlmulus of an empty purse to spur hem on and call out every faculty to rain the goal. True, in the beginning, here was little promise in the young awyer, of the future brilliancy of his areer. He was wild and dissipated. Suddenly he was brought to consider .nd mend his ways. Galloping his horse at full speed one lay, he came to the forks of the road, fe wished to take one?the horse the ither. The result was the animal ran ip against a tree, the force of the shock hrowlng both to the ground?the ridr apparently lifeless. The effort to estore consciousness by the companons of his ride, were, for sometime without effect, At last anlmatiofl was estored. but the injury received was a erloug one, confining him for somelme; but he found the bed of pain >rofltable for it "brought him to him> lelf." At the very time he got his hurt he pas determined to leave South Carollia, in oonsequence of trouble got into hrough his misdemeanors, and had natured his plans to do so. He was hus prevented from carrying out his lesign, his season of reflection changd his course, he determined on better hlngs and a new way of living. He vas a man ever able to abide by a Arm esolve, and a long tide of success regarded the arduous study and temperince of his after life. For many years Judge Smith was a nember of the legislature from York, ind at the time of his election as judge n 1808, filled the position of president >f the senate. In 1816 he was first lortori fr? the TTnltort States senate. In 822 he wai defeated by Robert T. layne for the United States senate, lis York friends showed their sympahy and confidence by returning him at heir next election, a member of the louse of representatives; and the folDwing years In the house, he took ^toleau's resolutions and changed hem. In 1826 Judge Smith was again electd to the United States senate to fill he unexpired term of John Galllard, ?he doctrine of nullflcatlon, about this ime, became the popular one of South Carolina, and Judge Smith being an incompromising Union man, was again uperceded In 1830?this time by Steihen D. Miller. His friends In the dlsrict of York, to soothe his wounded imbition, elected him to the state senite. I think of Judge Smith as one of the dtterest politicians I ever knew. His emper, naturally dogmatical, was oured by the constant defeats of his >arty. He hated Mr. Calhoun with biter onlmoslty and felt that honors ofered to the latter by the state, were nsults to himself. His affections were Innllir an alienator] from the DeODle Of South Carolina he removed from the Imlts of the state and found a home n Alabama, where, some years earlier, le had transferred the greater part of lis property. In many essentials Judge Smith was i kind man, a pleasant neighbor, a hospitable gentleman, and a good companion to those he liked; but implacaile in his prejudices and unforgiving n his enmities. One of Johnson's good paters, but true as steel In a friendhip. It was while at Dr. Alexander's chool he formed an attachment to Yilliam H. Crawford, which frlendihlp remained intact during their lives. V.fter the contest for the presidency in 824, when Adams, Jackson, Clay and Crawford all entered the arena, an aricle published in the papers, quite hunorous in tone delineating the race as ine of a jockey club course, caught the mood of the people, and was read and referred to constantly. Smith, then residing at Plnckneyvllle, Union district, had exerted every nerve to secure the election of his old friend, W. H. Crawford. The newspaper burlesque said the Jackson horse strode through the state of Tennessee with utmost speed, on through North Carolina with almost equal velocity, and into South Carolina, where, although a man named Smith, at Plnckneyvllle. rushed in and tried to scare him off the track for the Georgia horse to get ahead, the Jackson horse Jumped over him, stretching himself and losing no time until he reached the Qeorgla line. Caleb Clarke facetiously remarked to Judge Smith, on meeting him soon after reading the piece, "Well, Judge, the Jackson horse was too much for you? ran over you; you could not scare hlrn off the track." "He would have been had he been bridle-wise, sir," hissed Judge Smith in his sarcastic tone. His schoolmate Jackson, however, bore no grudge against Smith for his superior affection for Crawford, and their sameness of political creed cemented and strengthened their earlier ties. After Judge Smith removed to Alabama, Jackson appointed him a Judge of the supreme court, but he declined to accept the high position. Judge Smith built a very handsome residence on Turkey creek, but returnon*, In to a villa era Ufa Vara hft at vu UQUlll bV Ife ? V mmm ways dispensed much elegant hospitality both to strangers and to townsmen. Some of the handsomest entertainments I have ever attended, were dinners given by him; and dancing parties with music and fine suppers, were frequently enjoyed in his pleasant mansion. He Improved the beautiful lot and built the handsome house now owned by Robert G. McCaw, Esq.. but before he completed his designs, he removed to Huntsville, Alabama, where he built for himself a palatial residence. His manner of speaking was considerably sententious, and his pithy remarks frequently impressed themselves upon one's memory when the same words from another's lips would have been forgotten. Mr. Bob Cooper once said, "Well, Judge, you have done a arrant (ImI fn?Ard Imnrovement: you have built a fine house on Turkey creek and one in Yorkvllle?now you ought to build a mill." '1 have often noticed, Mr. Cooper, that a mill was a fine thing for the neighborhood, but a bad thing for the owner." In the trite reply Is a proof made manifest to many who have had experience to test the matter, t Nothing could show the deyoted attachment of this stern judge more strongly than the habit of removing his daughter's body wherever he went 8he was his only child. She married and died early, but her bones found not a final resting place until they were taken by her father to Alabama, where be now lies beside her. THE COTTON TAX QUESTION History of So-Called Smith-Lever Bill as Told by Underwood. By adopting the Underwood amend* ment to the Clarke amendment to the tariff bill, the house of representatives last Tuesday night indorsed Senator E. D. Smith's plan for the regulation of dealings in cotton futures. Majority Leader Underwood, in the course of his remarks on the cotton schedule, said: "The first time I ever heard of the proposition was when it was introduced in a bill offered by Senator Smith of South Carolina. In that bill he used the interstate commerce power of the government to enforce the bill." Representative Lever heartily concurred in the support of the amendment and in the course of his argument said: "The history of this substitute may throw some light upon the proposition and have some weight with the membership of this house. The substitute was drawn at my suggestion?if you will pardon a personal reference?by eTnerts of the deDartment of agricul ture and the department of commerce. The first draft of the bill was submitted to the postmaster general of the United States, who for long years was ' a distinguished member of congress and whose record in reference to this kind of legislation is well known to the membership of this house. He made some suggestions and some corrections and, indeed, added some ideas. The substitute as then agreed upon by him and myself was handed to the president of the United States. The substitute embodied the ideas contained in the bill introduced in the senate of the united states and acted favorably upon several times by its committee on agriculture by the junior senator from South Carolina?Senator Smith? who has given not one day, not one year, but twenty years of thought to this problem. The president of the United States agreeing to the substitute, put it into the hands of the gentleman from Alabama who offered it In conference and who offers it now." If the senate accepts the Underwood amendment, and It is believed that it will, the principle for which Senator Smith has been contending so long and for which Mr. Lever so ably agreed, will become a law within "the next few days. Those who are familiar with the situation here, and who know of the fight that they have been making are congratulating both upon their efforts. It is generally conceded by those who heard Mr. Lever's argument Tuesday afternoon that his speech turned the tide in favor of the amendment Introduced.?Washington dispatch to the Columbia State. To Aid Live Stock Industry.?Assistant Secretary Galloway, of the department of agriculture, says a Washington dispatch to the News and Courier, has tentatively agreed with Representative Lever, chairman of the house committee on agriculture, upon a plan for the encouragement of the live stock industry In South Carolina. The idea is to select about fifteen counties where the greatest interest Is manifested In the movement and then to apportion these counties between two experts who will co-operate with Ciemson college and the department's present farm demonstrators in the Palmetto state. After these persons, acting together, shall have organized live stock associations in the respective counties ,the regular business of live stock demonstration will begin. Mr. Lever thinks that this is the best arraignment possible under the circumstances. * TURNING TOWARD THIS SECTION Renewed Interest in Eeetem and Southern Farm Land*. With the disappearance of lowpriced lands In the western states and the rising prices of farm products In all the markets of the world, the lands of the eastern and the southern states are attracting the attention of our stock-raisers and farmers, and their value as producing acreage Is now being more appreciated. It li evident that for rattle, sheen and hoc*, thesw- eastern and southeastern lands must be relied upon to supply the country to far greater extent than has been the case during the last half-century, and minions of acres In New England, the middle Atlantic and the south Atlantic states are available for stock-raising purposes is undeniable. The finely watered, well-sheltered* * rich pasture land* of the mountain ranges of the states of Pennsylvania. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia. Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and north Georgia will Support millions of eat tie, sheep and hogs, and with increase in the numbs agriculturists cultivating the soil ahd producing corn, wheat, oats and alfalfa to a greater amount than at present, tnese neros ana nocn, rarea bo cruawly to the city market*, can be made a* profitable aa the animals raised one or two thousand miles away In the western states and brought long distances to these same markets. The rise 1ft values of western lands has made these eastern acred comparatively cheap. It has changed the conditions which prevailed Ih the lastoentury, and which populated the west through settlers from the eastern states, as well as Immigrants from every country In Europe. There has been for the past Ave years a decided movement of population from the northern to the southern states, and each year that movement takes with It greater numbers of the northern people. From Maryland to Artaona, all through the southern states belt, this Influx of the northern people Is well marked and defined, and tn states like Florida the percentage of northerners " la very high and growing with every* year. The majority of these newcomers are agriculturists reeking low-priced lands in milder climate, and ready tn lend their energies and use their means in promoting tne development ot u? state and the section In which they have taken op their abode*. Within the past few weeks the German steamship companies hare arranged to place in service additional steamship* from Europe to the port* of Baltimore and New Orleans, thus Increasing the facilities for Immigrants to come through these ports Into the United States. This cannot fall to give the south thousands of adltional cultivators of the soil, and whether they come to purchase lands to cultivate for themselves or simply to labor for others who own the acres, they become valuable factors in the deevlopraent of southern lands. Maryland and Virginia, two state* to which Baltimore la an open door, can offer these immigrants lands wed adapted to their ass, with locations as to the country** great markets unequalled, with excellent transportation Facilities by rail or water, and these lands at prices absurdly low, when compared with those of other states at the present time. , It Is a great opportunity that is offered these states to secure desirable Immigrants through co-operation with the great steamship lines of Germany, and it is just an great an opportunity for the immigrants to secure for themselves, at small cost, lands that within the next decade will bring double the prices that they can be bought for today.?Washington Post SOUTH LEADS IN LUMBER Now Produces Half of Country's Output?Louisiana Nsar First Plsos, How rapidly the south is surpassing the west In the production of lumber is shown by the latest figures, just isfn* ?h* TTtiftoA fltttM. While Washington, with a production of 4,099,776,004 feet In 1912, still holds first place in the oountry, the Increase for that state was only 26,444.040 feet over the total for the preceding year. On the other hand, Louisiana, which was does behind last year, with a total output of 1,974,211.940 feet, showed an increase of 210,000,000 feet, while Mississippi, which was third, with a production of 2,221,494.000 feet, gained 240,000,004 feet over the previous year. In 1911 Oregon was In third place, but last year gave way to North Carolina. Texas went up from eighth place in 1911 to sixth place last year. Arkansas dropped from sixth to seventh place. Virginia went up from twelfth to eighth. Wisconsin dropped from seventh to ninth, Michigan held tenth position, and Minnesota fen from ninth to eleventh place. The figures show that the southern states and the Pacific coast states are the leading1 producing sections. Both showed an Increase of output over the previous year, but the Increase in the south was greater. The census for 1900 gave the southern states S8.T per cent of the total output of the country. In 1907 this had increased to 45.7 per cent, and last year It was 51.4 per cent Among the various species of lumber produced, yellow pine maintains its long lead, the total for that wood cut in the southern states being 14,470,517,000 feet Douglas flr was second, but a long way behind, with an output of 5,175,129,000 feet?New York Times. Futile Threat?Pat and Mike were on a roof removing old shingles, Pat ripping them off with a pick and Mike tossing them in great armfuls to the atreet below. , As Mike vu making his way along with an extra heavy load he slipped and slid down the roof, sweeping Pat over the edge. Pat's pick caught in the drain trough and there he hung. With one desperate grasp Mike managed to cling to one of Pat's legs, and they dangled there some moments, too frightened to peep. Finally Pat yelled: "Mike, let go me leg!" "I will not," cried Mike. "Ye will that," cried Pat. "Mike Tlerney." called Pat, madly, 'if you don't let go me leg I'll hit ye wld this pick."?Birmingham News.