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' ISSUED SEMI'WEEKL^^ _ _____ L. M. GRISTS SONS, Publisher.. | % 4amilS Jlcurspupcr: J[or the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and tfommerriat interests of fhi; gtopl?. [/^"$,nole".>W.mJ"en"""' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1914. PROLOGUE. * Here is a notable story of a man who went alone Into the vast wilderness of northern Maine and without food or clothing, lived for two months, using his ingenuity and strength to supply his wants. He became a primeval man. just the sort of human being that many scientists argue was the f ancestor of the educated races of today. You will be fascinated by the narrative of Joseph Knowles, artist, etmipnt nnd nhilosopher, and marvel at his hardihood, his perseverance and ? his practical, intricate knowledge of ^ woodcraft. He shows you how resourceful man can combat and overcome the powerful forces of nature. He gives you a down to date, true to life picture of the conditions that confronted our forefathers in the remote ages. He teaches in words that will long live in your memory, the W great human lesson that hope is the salvation of the soul. The action in this remarkable document is continued and engrossing. The episode of the white fawn and the battle of the moose are vivid portrayals of animal life that carry with them the realism of actual truth. Head to the end this graphic reminder of the times when men and women existed without the artificial aids that contribute to their needs and desires today. CHAPTER I. The Birth of an Idea. On the Saturday afternoon of Oc* tober, 4, 1913, just at the time when sunshine marked the end of two days' heavy rain, I emerged from the Canadian forest on the shores of Lake Megantic. having lived the life of a primitive man for two months in the # wilderness of northern Maine. I was tanned to the color of an Indian. I had a matted beard and long, matted hair. I was scratched from head to foot by briers and underbrush. Over the upper part of my body, I wore the skin of a black bear, which & I had fastened together in front ^ with deerskin thongs. My legs were incased in crudely tanned deerskin chaps, with the hair inside. On my feet I wore moccasins of buckskin, ! Joseph Knowies Before Entering Wilderness. sewed together with sinew. I wore no hat. On my back was a pack made from woven lining: bark of the cedar, in which I carried various implements from the forest. I had a rude bow and arrows, and g a crude knife made from the horn of a deer dangled at my waist. It was thus that I entered the little French-Canadian town of Megantic?back to the civilized world. 1 received a welcome that I had not 0 dreamed of, and I was very happy, for it proved to me at that time that the people were really interested. However, as the hours went on I began to realize that they considered that I had done a wonderful thing. It was because of this impression, which seems to have taken hold of many people since my return, that I will begin this narrative by saying that it was not wonderful. Above all It else I want to emphasize that my living alone in the wilderness for two months without clothing, food or implements of any kind was not a wonderful thing. It was an interesting ? thing, but it was not wonderful. Any man of fair health could do the same thing provided he meant business and kept his head. Hut to flubest of my knowledge no other man in the history of civilization ever did what I did. lilt" 1UCU Ol IUIS VA|iri mix III vmiiv I" me about a yjar ago while 1 was spending a few weeks at Hradford, Vt. At the time I was painting pietuns of outdoor life in a little log cabin on what is known in that locality as Saddleback mountain. 1 was painting a moose, and as I added a touch of color to the canvas I began to wonder how many people would notice that particular bit of color, which from a standpoint of faithful portrayal was as important as the eye of the creature itself. Front this thought my mind wantiered on to the realization that the people of the present time were sadly neglecting the details of the great book of nature. And as I thought I forgot the picture before me. I said to myself: ? "Mere. I know something about nature. I wonder if it would not be possible for nie to do something for the benefit of others." Then I would laugh at the idea of my doing anything for the world! -ALOflE IN j IE WILDERNESS BY OSEPH KNOWLES WGHT.I913.BY SMALL.MAYNARD SCO. Probably all of us have wild dreams now and then. I am beginning to think that wild dreams are wonder ful things to hiive. l nave always hoped, more than anything else, that I might sometime do something which would benefit mankind, even in a small way. I believed there was too much artificial life at the present day in the cities. 1 found myself comparing our present mode of living with the wild, rugged life of the great outdoors. Then all of a sudden wondered if the man of the present day could leave all his luxury behind him and go back into the wilderness and live on what nature intended him to have. In that thought came the birth of the idea. That night I went down to the hotel in Bradford and began talking it over with several of my friends. At first they all laughed at the absurdity of a man of today going back to the life of the primitive man of yesterday. I remember as we sat around the lireplace they asked me all kinds of ques tions. I told them that in order to make such an experiment interesting, it would be necessary for a man to enter the woods entirely naked, without even a match or a knife, and live a stipulated time without the slightest communication or aid from the outside world. "What would you do for fire?" one man asked me. 1 replied to that very quickly. Another wanted to know what food 1 would be able to get in the wilderness and how I would get it without weapons. I mentioned a dozen ways. Then the conversation became like a game. Every one wanted to see if he couldn't stick me in some way. That night I couldn't think of a single thing that would keep me from undertaking such an experiment. In the busy days which followed. I promptly forgot all about the idea, just as nine-tenths of all ideas are forgotten. Not until the beginning of last summer did the thought take hold of me again. T-, " mv friends r rum umc iu u.?.,_ would jokingly inquire when I was going to leave them and become a wild man. Then all of a sudden it hit me hard. Another mood seized me like the one I had left in the cabin while painting the picture of the moose. I said ?and this time I meant it, "I'll try this stunt and demonstrate to the people that there are marvelous things to be derived from life in the great outdoors." When I told my friends that I really was going to try the experiment during the months of August and September, they became serious indeed. They were not joking now when they cried, "Do not think of such a thing!" They reminded me that it might be easy enough to answer all their theoratical questions satisfactorily, but to actually find tire and food and clothing would be impractical, indeed, utterly imposible. Hut my mind was fuly made tip. I left Bradford immediately for Boston to make preparations for the trip. By preparations 1 do not mean that I went back to the city to train for the trip. 1 went to Boston simply to discuss with other friends the plans that were in my mind. First of all, it was necessary for me to choose a location for the experiment. This was some task, inasmuch as I desired to enter a wilderness fataway from civilization, where 1 would not be bothered by people from the outside world. Finally 1 decided that I would go into the forest on the 4th of August, in what is known in the northwest Maine country as the Dead ltiver region. This country is covered with heavy " - ?- 1U-.rw.lth DiaCK grow in iimuct. l/iivwij ..w. ... is Bear mountain, below which stretches Spencer lake. To the east is Little Spencer, with Heald mountain just beyond. Horseshoe pond and the Spencer stream lie to the southward, and the domain is bounded on tiie west by King and Hartletl lake. I selected this particular time for the experiment because 1 wanted it to be the most severe kind of a test. I was handicapped by civilization's habits and comforts. My skin was not tough. My muscles were not tirm, and my stomach was used to seasoned and well cooked food. However, 1 still retained my knowledge of the woods, and it was on that alone I placed dependence. It is in the mind, I claim, the mind that has been trained to know nature, that the spark of complete independence is retained down through the ages. As August 4 drew near, some of my closest friends literally begged me to abandon the idea. They warned me that 1 might become ill ami wreck my future health, or even lose my life, and all that kind of talk. They were good to me. and I appreciated their feelings, hut I knew they did not understand. 1 knew better. 1 was confident. 1 left Itost on for Higelow. Me., which is the end of the railroad in that part of the country. Krotii there I took the stage for eight miles to Kustis. it village of fifty inhabitants, situated on the edge of the forest. Then came something worse than living two months alone in the forest a ride for sixteen miles over the King and Bartlctt backboard trail. The terminus of this road brought nie to the King and Bartlctt camps. Directly in front of these camps is the King and Bartlctt lake. It was a mile across to the opposite shore where, in the presence of professional men and sportsmen who were stopping at the camps in the vicinity. I disrobed and started for the wilds, leaving my clothes behind and taking absolutely nothing with me. Now, just a few words about myself 1 had traveled nearly all over the world. loiter 1 entered the United States navy, where I served enlistments for a number of years. After that, I decided I would like to try sailing tin the fresh water lakes. So J I left the coast and sailed on the great lakes for another twelve months. It was while I was in that country that I became acquainted with tribes of Sioux and Chippewa Indians. They were scattered all along the west coast of Michigan. I gave up the sailing and went among them. That year I went back into the mountains and hunted and trapped with them. Of course I picked up valuable knowledge about the woods under these conditions. To eo back to the beginning of my life in the wilderness, heavy skies and a steady drizzle of rain greeted me on the morning of August 4, when I awoke in the King and Bartlett camps. However, the weather didn't bother me. The sportsmen and professional men who were interested in my departure joked with me and laughingly said that they would see me back again that night. Shortly after 9 o'clock we all left the camps for the opposite side of King and Bartlett lake. Q\ . rr ? <iz~ut? ' ry? Knowles Preparing For the Forest. The drizzle had increased to a steady downpour, and the brown suit of clothes which I wore became wet through. The time for my entering the forest was about 10 o'clock. The boats landed at the foot of what is known as the Spencer trail, which rises straight up the side of Hear mountain, and winds its way up over the crest and down the other side for live miles through the woods to Spencer lake. "Here's your last cigarette," cried some one, offering me the smoke as 1 began to take off my clothes. 1 took it and lit it and then went on undressing. Presently I stood naked. I took two or three linal puffs of the cigarette, tossed it to the ground and began to shake hands with every one. My body was already glistening with the rain, but it didn't bother me any. 1 waved my hand as a last farewell to human companionship for two months and started up the trail. At the top of the incline, where, in another moment, I would be out of sight among the trees, I paused and waved once more to the waiting crowd below. Then I struck out straight along the trail. I had left civilization. I don't remember a great deal of that live mile trip. My mind was filled with all kinds of thoughts. I kept saying to myself, "1 shall keep on going straight ahead into the woods, where I shall not see any >ne or talk with any one for two months." Then the realization would come over me that what food and comfort 1 obtained would have to come through my own resourcefulness. Hy now 1 had reached the ridge of Hear mountain and swung along down the other side, where I easily recognized the lay of the land, though 1 had not seen it for ten years. Presently I saw the surface of Spencer lake through the trees below me. In order to avoid the Twin camps I ..iv ih? i ,...11 ?,, ihu riirht f.rouu. WIL IUC 11 (111 IV? lliv. va ww ing over deadfalls and plunging through the tangled underbrush. When I reached Spencer lake, I looked across that sheet of water, with its background of endless trees that rose up, up, and then to the skyline, way beyond, and saw a rugged picture. The sweep of rain hung like a filmy curtain between me and the distant mountain forest, softening the lights and shadows of everything. For fully flifteen minutes I stood there in the rain and studied that wild stretch of nature. Three ducks flew around in it circle over the Witter. I if-iuii'l ci.lil even then. ITncon seiously I began to walk slowly along the Spoiled' shore, wondering just what I should do lirst. To save my life 1 couldn't seem to make any connected plans. So I wandered aimlessly along for some time, finally reaching a point some distance helow the Kempshall camp. Then I faced the heavy growth of woods and plunged in. I had no partieulur destination: I was just going anywhere. Perhaps I had gone two miles when I found myself in a spruce thicket. It.v now the afternoon was well along, and I hadn't done a thing tint wander ahout. I had thought ahout building a fire, hut saw there was little chance with everything dripping wet ahout me. However. I decided to make a try. First I hunted for a good piece of pine root to he used as a liase, then a stick for a spindle. Next I ripped off a piece of hark of the cedar. I tore the inner hark into small strips. which I braided into a kind of rope. This I looped about the spindle, tying the ends to a bow stick I had snapped off a dead tree. I had to pet my fire through friction, caused by whirling the spindle on the pine base by sawing back and forth with my crude fire bow. In vain I hunted in every crevice and log for dry punk. Everything was soaked through. I then saw the absolute foolishness of it all and straightway gave up the task. It was now dark, and here I was in this spruce thicket without food or fire, naked and miles from a camp. I made up my mind that I would stay out one night anyway, even tr i went back and culled the stunt off early In the morning. I found a place where I could walk back and forth a bit to keep warm, so I started in. With the darkness the air grew colder. The rain continued unabated. I ran back and forth until I was tired and breathing heavily; then I would stop for a moment to rest, sitting down on the wet ground with my back against a tree. Of course I couldn't sit there very long without catching cold, so after a little I would get up and begin walking again. I must have run miles that night in thnt little space in the spruce thicket. I would stop to rest, only to start walking again. It must have been early the next morning, about 3 o'clock, I guess, when it began to get very cold. The rain had stopped. I increased my pace back and forth. Thus running and resting I spent the first night alone in the wilderness. Daylight came very siowiy, um with it I was on the move. Xot a thought had I given to food since I entered the forest. I wasn't hungry. I struck a natural game trail and followed it along, not knowing where I was going. Presently it began to rain again, and. while I got used to it later, I did not welcome it just then. My thoughts were the same jumbled thoughts of the day before. As I roamed along my resolve to leave the forest and call the experiment off did not figure particularly in the morning's mood. I somehow didn't care where I was going, and I did not feel the cold to any great degree. At last I reached Lost pond. I had never seen it before, although years ago I had been well acquainted with the country thereabouts and knew this must be it. It looked very small to me, ana tor a moment i wonuereu if it really were Lost pond. It helped to break the monotony of that dark, rainy day. I never knew what I went to that pond for, but I think there is something that draws a man or an animal to a place of relief in the woods?any opening, any sheet of water or spring or anything that is different from the miles and miles of trees which become so tiresome. (To be Continued). HUERTA'S TWO MISTAKES Dictator Remembers With Regret Time Villa Pleaded For Life. Huerta is the flower of the Mexican Indian. Such Indians have appeared, on occasion, in the United States. Huerta is brave. Huerta is masterful. Hut even Huerta has never betrayed possession of high ideals nor wide social vision. And Huerta has made mistakes. Two of these mistakes to be mentioned in passing, but which are not apposite to the contention of this article, are (1) his not killing Zapata when he had the chance; (2) Us very grievous error in not kiling Villa the time he had him backed up against a wall facing a firing squad. It was on this latter occasion that he compelled Villa, on his knees, arms clasped about Huertas legs, to beg Huerta for his life. Villa has not forgotten that little episode. And it is fair to assume that sometimes the memory of these two mistakes flits regretfully through Huerta's mind as he sips a drink at the country club and rontemnlates Villa movinir irresistibly down on him from the north; both his coasts blockaded by American warships and all arms and war munitions embargoed; Zapata at his back to the south and west like a hungry tiger; his credit exhausted, but a small portion of his own country left in his hands, and his own people in his capital city ripe to turn on him the instant he totters. I should not like to be Villa or Zapata if only for five minutes Huerta should get hold of me. Nor should I like to be Huerta if only for five minutes Zapata or Villa should get hold of me.?Jack London in Collier's Weekly. Gibson's Comeback.?According to Printer's Ink, Charles Dana Gibson is said by an exchange to have been amused at receiving not long ago a printed circular signed by an automobile firm that read: You are cordially invited to participate in our grand $100 prize drawing contest. Each participant may submit one or more drawings advertising our automobile, and the winner will receive a grand cash prize of $100. Drawings must be sent prepaid, they must be original, and all unsuccessful drawings will remain the property of the undersigned. Mr. Gibson, who can scarcely be persuaded to make drawings at $1,000 apiece, smiled over the printed circu lar, then tool. a sheet of note paper and still smiling, wrote to the automobile lirm: You are cordially invited to participate in my grand $1? prize automobile contest. Kach participant may submit one or more automobiles, fully equipped, of his own manufacture, and the winner will receive a grand cash prize of $10 in gold. The automobile submitted should be brand new and must 1m- shipped f. o. b. New York. The unsuccessful automobiles will remain the property of the undersigned. Charles Dana Gibson. A Great Relief.?"Say old man. you're looking a hundred per cent better than you did a year ago." "I was worrying about my debts then." "All paid now, eh?" "No; but they have grown so that I know there is no use trying to pay tlom. I tell you it's a great load off my mind." FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkville Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the nlHor nonnlp nnrl fnr thp ontortnlnmonF and instruction of the present generation. SIXTY-FOURTH INSTALLMENT Saturday night, April 20, 1861. We went round Moultrieville this afternoon after drill, and saw the sights of the place. Among the rest the concealed battery, the floating battery and Fort Moultrie. The first was built about one hundred yards from Fort Moultrie, behind a house which was blown up before the battle. It did good service, and received no serious injury. The balls frequently did not bury themselves more than a foot or eighteen inches in the embankment of sand bags and Palmetto logs. The floating battery seems to have been an especial eye-sore to Maj. Anderson. It received 15 shots in all; one splintering a corner, another cutting clear through the roofing and lodging in the sand bags behind, and all the others making but slight indentations in the sheet iron and glancing upward or downward, according to the place where they struck. The officers' and soldiers' quarters at Fourt Moultrie as we said this evening to you?are completely riddled with cannon balls; and that nobody was killed, is certainly owing to a gracious Providence. We counted some twenty or twenty-ilve perforations, some of which extended through different rooms and tore up the ceiling, floors, chimneys, etc, to a fearful extent. Perhaps you are aware that the celebrated Indian Chief Oceola, was imprisoned in this glorious old fortress at the close of the Florida war.?He was imprisoned and died here. We saw his grave, a simple white slab lies over his heroic dust, level with the ground, and inscribed with only one word?"Oceola." The grass is growing green all around it, and the grim walls of the fortress rise fifteen or twenty feet in front. A fitting sepulchre. Peaceful, we thought, is the sleep of the brave. Sunday afternoon, 21st, Rev. Mr. Rornwell, who has accompanied the volunteers of the South Carolina col lege as their pastor, preached today in the dining room at the Moultrie House. He had a large audience, and we do not think that we have ever before beheld an assemblage of such fine-looking young men. They may well be classed with the flower of South Carolina chivalry. They consisted of the college cadets and a portion of the up country volunteers from Chester, York, Union and Spartanburg . His subject was Moses' song of triumph and praise on the banks of the Red Sea, and was discussed with much appropriateness, pathos and beauty. Our own heart was made to glow and thrill with gratitude to the God of Battles for the wonderful victory of Fort Sumter. These waters will be thronged with visitors, as soon as peace is restored, to see the interesting sights to be seen. We learn the houses of Moultrieville will remain "statu quo" as far as may he, in order that the interest may not he impaired. The quarters of Fort Moultrie for more practical reasons, are now under repair. We may mention here, what would have appropriately come in yesterday's letter, that Rev. Mr. Anderson of our town, gave us some excellent and seasonable advice on the night before we left Charleston. The number of visitors to our camp at Columbia, Charleston and here, from Yorkville, and their high-toned liberality and gentlemanly attentions to our volunteers, have become a matter of remark, and are contributing much to our fellow citizens at home an enviable name. Our lady friends who have brothers or husbands or other "kith and kin," amongst us, have sent us box after box of provisions, until we live almost like princes. Even our water is?as the market re JOHNSON N. CAMDEN J? hBSSBwo^I |ft|i H W :-i -i 1 MCW??on?M?Bfcr?H M?l IIIII 111 Johnson X. Camden of Versailles, 1 Ky., has been sworn in as the succes- i or to the late I'nited States Senator i Cradley, and the senate now has a > complete membership. ports say?fair-middling; and with all 1 our drilling, marching, etc., we are living a pleasant, a merry life. Our hoys remember the kindness of | friends at home by writing all day of Sundays and at other opportune times. We, as postmaster of the Jasper Light Infantry, will mail upwards of fifty letters in a few minutes. No sickness; and as long as the enemy remain "afar off," and we stay . here, our camp will be all that heart could wish in point of comfort and convenience. When the enemy comes, we will fight to the last to retain such comfoi ble quarters!! Our Corporal. ( ( The Home Guards. j A company was organized in this , place last week numbering about sixty { members, for the purpose of home pro- j tection. The company has been named r "Home Guards," and measures have r been taken to procure arms at an early ^ day. The roiiowing persons consuiuie ?j the officers: t A. Coward, captain; Dr. A. I. Bar- a ron, 1st lieutenant; G. W. Wiliams, 2nd f lieutenant; J. G. Enloe, 3rd lieutenant; j J. C. Phillips, 1st sergeant; J. R. t Schorl), 2nd sergeant; L. M. Grist, 3rd 5 sergeant; W. B. Wilson, 4th sergeant; B. T. Wheeler, 5th sergeant; J. B. Alii- j son, 1st corporal; W. I. Clawson, 2nd c corporal; J. D. Miller, 3rd corporal; t J. C. Miller, 4th corporal. (To be Continued.) - - t NUMBER SEVEN 1 a Many Mathematicians Confer Sanctity f Upon the Numeral. When the number 7 was made in- t] to a "sacred" number, its sanctity was conferred upon it by the mathema tlciuns of the various nationalities, it ^ is the queerest number of the entire j number family. Its peculiarity, how- ^ ever, does not show until you make it j into a decimal. j For the average reader who "can- ^ not do anything with figures," let it be said that to turn a number into a decimal, you write it as a fraction f with 1 as the top figure and then divide the top by the bottom. Thus, c if I write 1-2, the fraction really means that I want to divide the top a 1 by the bottom two. j. I then write out the upper 1 and t add as many ciphers as I need and 8 then divide. In this case, when I di- j vide 10 by 2, the 10 being the original ^ 1 with one cipher added, I get a 5. If I do the same with a 4, I get a 25. g If with 8, I get 125. t The mathematician would say that t the result in the first case is a single t digit because the figure 2 is a single digit. He would add that the second r result is in two figures, because the t number 4 stands for two twos. For c the same reason the third result is in a three digits because the number 8 a stands for 2 used in a factor three c times. 1 Now, when I try 3 in this way I get an endless series of threes. Try it. t Divide 3 into 10 with any number of ciphers added you choose to add and t your result will be an endless string ^ of threes. Six similarly produces an a endless series of sixes, after first set- a ting out a 1. But when you come to a 7 in this sort of work, you strike one t of the funniest things you ever saw. a It is really worth while stopping a j moment and getting pencil and paper and working it out. Here is what you get: When first you divide 10 with e any number of ciphers added by 7, s vou iret the series of figures 142857 n Then it returns to 1 again and gives jj you the same figures over again as j] often as you please. This in itself is odd, that the 7 0 should stop dividing at the sixth (( place and start all over again on the seventh. But now take your result e and multiply it by 2. The answer j, will he 287)714. Compare this with j, your first result and you will see that the digits are the same, but they are shifted around, so as to place the 14 at the end. ?, Now multiply by 3 and you have K 428571. Look at the result again and you will find you have the same digits, s but the order is changed again. Just n about now you warm up to the work a and as you multiply by four you get g 571428. You rather expected to get c that. a Then when you tried the next num- v ber, 5, you could almost foretell that p you would have 714285. And now j( you could almost write out the result p of 6 without doing the work, for you s know you would have 857147. But p, remember that you are at the sixth t step and that the number 7 refuses to accompany you any further. It nods good-bye in this way: Mul- 0 tiply your original 142857 by 7 and t, you have 999999. That seems to be c the end of the story. t But the ancient Hindoos, who were iiuite expert in this sort of thing were v not satisfied. They saw, of course, j, what our readers have also seen, viz, that the figures obtained by making 0 7 into a decimal stood in rather an 0 odd relation to each other. t Take them again, 142857. Write tlu-in in twos apart, thus, n. zs, di, q :tnd you will note, as they also noted, tl that the 28 is twice 14 and that 57 comes quite near being 56, which S| would be twice 28. When they had t, gone this far they simply said: ii "That last 7 is a 6," and let it go jit that. p But of course, the American mind q does not care to juggle figures like that anywhere outside the returns of y elections, and, therefore, with a large h show of morality, refuses to quietly ji turn a 7 Into a 6. But the ancient Hindoo would have smiled tolerantly ci it such objection and said: "Well multiply by the next number k >f 7 and see what you get." tl And your answer is 1 142856. The p Hindoo would have pointed to final 6 ind the additional 1 in front, and si would have quietly told you: It "The final 7 in the tlrst case was ti not a 7. It was a 6 plus 1." tl Then he would have gone back to tl dt under the bo tree some more. He ?tops there. The American mind is not quite satisfied. It thinks: ".Might t< is well finish the set up to 5?." It does ai to and gets this result, 1285713. The ir s is there; the 57 reappears and the ci 14 is broken up in the same way as p was the 57 in the other instance. And is he makes this final result, he h {lances over at the bo tree and goes w ?ut to lunch with a business friend to p tell him something he wants.?Cineinati Star. h WARM MEETING AT AIKEN Srowd Was Divided for and Against Blease and Smith. PACTIONAL FEELING IS VERY SHARP . fhere Was Twenty-Five Minutes During Which Speaking Was Practically Suspended Because of Demonstration of the Crowd. There was a warm time at the state campaign meeting at Aiken last TuesJay. In all there were more than a hnnoariH nonnlo nroapnt n nH thpv Hid lot hesitate to show what they thought >f the speakers. A feature of the meetng was the injection of the respective nerits of Blease and Smith. This was lot until the latter part of the meeting, luring the speech of Mr. Richards. The pandemonium was raised through he reading by him of a written paper, tnd at one time the confusion lasted or about twenty-tlve minutes. The troceedings of the day as reported by he correspondent of the Columbia State, were as follows: The meeting was called to order at 0.30 o'clock by L. T. Wilds, county hairman, who turned over the chair o G. L. Toole. Military Men First. M. C. Willis, candidate for adjuunt general, was the first to speak, 'here were about 50 persons In the udience. W. W. Moore, candidate or re-election as adjutant general. nswered the charges of his oppolent. Candidates for railroad commlsloner spoke next as follows: W. I. Yitherspoon, George W. Fairey, C. ). Fortner, Frank J. Shealy, J. H. Vharton. James Cansler has not reoined the party. When these candidates had finished speaking the crowd lad increased to about 700 persons, rrnny of them women. There was applause when C. D. i*ortner said: "On August 25, Blease Oil make E. D. Smith look like 30 ents." J. A. Hunter, candidate for lieutennt governor, was applauded when le told of his part in the investigaion of the state hospital for the inane. He was followed by B. Frank Celley, Andrew Jackson Bethea and Villiam M. Hamer. A. G. Brlce, candidate for attorney general, said that he voted against he usury bill because in his part of he state the banks charge no more han 8 per cent.interest. Thnmas H Pennies, candidate for e-election, characterized himself as he "servant of the people." He harged that his opponent had voted gainst the bill for the giving of free chool books. He spoke of his recird as attorney general for the past 8 months, asking re-election on the asis of what he has done in that ime. A. W. Jones, candidate for re-election as comptroller general, delivered lis customary speech, defending his dminlstration against the previous ttacks of his opponent. Mr. Jones verred that it was not his duty, but he duty of the attorney general to ttend to the loss of moneys in the <exlngton county Savings bank. Smith Up First. Charles A. Smith, lieutenant govrnor and candidate for governor, tated that the question of law and ruer went nanu in nanu ?nn mc [quor question. He declared himself (i favor of local option prohibition. "Why do the anti-saloon leagues of ur state remain indifferent on this uestion?" he asked. "We are not prepared to double our ducutional facilities," said Mr. Smith, n defending his position on the comulsory attendance question. Mr. Smith was given four bouuets. Mendel L. Smith spoke of the reponsibility attached to the office of overnor. "I emphasize two planks," said ipeaker Smith, "the education of the nasses and the enforcement of law nd order." He spoke in favor of ;ood roads, advocating the use of onvict labor on the roads. He called ttention to the large percentage of ?hite illiteracy in South Carolina, le defended his position in favor of oeal option compulsory education, le said that a state-wide compulsory chool attendance law would work a lardship on 500 school districts in his state. For Public Health. "We must respond to the principles f the medical profession in the matpr of our health and happiness," ontinued Speaker Smith, who told of he work of the state board of health. Speaker Smith's statement that he fould honor the verdict of twelve urymen was greeted with applause. Lowndes J. Browning in speaking f the liquor question as expressed by ther candidates for governor, stated hat he was in favor of local option. He asked that Mr. Clinkscales dene his position on this mooted quesion. Mr. Browning again urged that the tate loan money to persons desiring 3 become home owners, thereby helpig to solve the many rural problems, le made an attack on the present ersonal property tax, and advocated i lieu of it a graduated income tax. John ("?. Clinkscales, in answering Ir. Browning's question, said that he ad answered the question at Edge- 1 eld. He gave out the following statement 1 oncerning his position: "In view of the fact that the whisy question has been brought up in lis campaign, I wish to state my ' osition on the question. "1 believe that South Carolina has uttered from the lack or constructive -gislution on account of undue agita?n of the liquor question and I, lerefore, favor the enforcement of te present law. Not Advocating State-wide Law. "I will add. however, that I am a 1 >tal abstainer and am personally gainst whisky, but am not advocator state-wide prohibition in this impaign as some would have the eople believe." Mr. Clinkscales went on to say that e believed the lawlessness of today as due primarily to the abuse of the ( ardoning power. He then went into his "hobby," as e himself says, of compulsory scnooi attendance. He stated tnat it would not bankrupt the state to put such a law In force. "I am pleading: for the 40,000 boys and girls of this state." he said. Mr. Clinkscale8 was given a bouquet. Robert A. Cooper spoke of the office of governor as the most Important office in this state. He advocated the enforcement of law, naming the glaring exceptions of disobedience of the law in Charleston, with its racetrack gambling and Columbia with its "blind tigers." Mr. Cooper stated that he was In favor of equalization of the school facilities of the counties. He paid a tribute to the work of Clemson college in all that it is doing for the farmers, and urged that the demonstration agents acquaint the people with the danger of the boll weevil, which, according to experts, will reach South Carolina in five years. He asked that support be given the state board of health. The speaker then ueveiopeu nis iaea 01 a rurai creaiis law. John T. Duncan advocated the appointment of a public service commission. He then talked about what he calls his "system." "John Richards." he said, "by the denial of his coat tail swinging has advertised himself from Hellaballoo to Boston." W. C. Irby, Jr., recounted his fight In the legislature to sustain the veto of the governor on the sale of the asylum property in Columbia. He told of his work in the state convention in denouncing the rules adopted there. He charged that John G. Richards and Mendel L. Smith had missed this convention, fearing to give a vote on the rules. He related the time when the mills in Aiken closed down, almost starving the people. "I propose to make every man who works in a mill Join a union by law," he said. Mr. Irby scathingly denounced the control of cotton mills by northern capital. Richard I. Manning said that the ptrupje ui me aune were urea 01 iactionallsm. Law Enforcement Paramount "The paramount issue above all others In South Carolina is enforcement of law. What difference does it make what laws you enact if they are not regarded, ?" he asked. "South Carolina does not hold the place she once held among her sister states. It is said of us beyond our state lines and in our own legislative halls that we are a lawless people? that crime is condoned?that criminals frequently go unpunished; that the verdicts of our juries are lightly set aside; that the laws are disregarded. This, my fellow citizens, is a serious condition. Is it true? Are our laws disobeyed? We have a law against race track gambling. Does this keep this lawless and demoralizing set out of our state? Are criminals unpunished? Are the verdicts of our Juries lightly set aside? You know the condition. Men and brethren,' are these things so? I answer yes. Is this condition to continue in South Carolina? Is it not so that life is not protected if you happen to be against the governor? Is not the feeling abroad among the reckless, among law breakers that if murder is committed a petition for pardon can be secured and that if it is S i C n P H hv thp rlcht nnaa o nQK^nn will be granted? My fellow citizens, no state can go forward where such a condition exists. It is time to change it. I promise you that if elected governor I will change it, that law will be enforced, and this will be state-wide, not local or optional but everywhere in South Carolina." His statement concerning his attitude toward the use of the pardoning power was applauded. Mr. Manning was liberally applauded in outlining the rest of his platform. John B. Adger Mullaly was absent because of sickness. Tells of His Record. John G. Richards referred to his various connections during twelve years with the state administration. He related his fight to separate the whites and blacks in travel. "I am the one candidate who has called attention to the fact that the new rules will disfranchise 15,000 to 20,000 eligible voters," said Mr. Richards in answering the charges of W. C. Irby, Jr., that he had failed to attend the state rnnvpntlnn Mr. Richards stated that he was opposed to compulsory education in any form because such a law would militate against the white child in favor of the black child. "I am opposed to spending any money for the education of negroes until every white person is educated," he said. "How are you going to do it?" asked an auditor. "If you had as much sense as any man you can figure it out," he replied. Mr. Richards was loudly applauded and the statement brought out factional demonstration when he said that he was going to vote for Blease in the race for United States senator. Cheers of "Blease" and "Smith" lasted for several minutes. "Better Look Out." "Better look out for yourself," shouted an auditor as Mr. Richards read a statement concerning the position of E. D. Smith and his relation to the farmer, which Mr. Richards denounced. The crowd got up from their seats I'II mtr Kiuuiiu, ui iiinn LIIIIIUIIIK up 01 the stand, and one of the listeners from Blackville, it is said, becoming angered and violent in speaking to Mr. Richards, was arrested. Mr. Richards picked up a tumbler, looking threateningly, as cheers of "Hurrah for Smith" and "Hurrah for Blease" were frequent during the reading of his statement, which is as follows: "When Senator B. R. Tillman organized the farmers in 1890 and hurled this mighty force of reformers against those who had control of our state government and through ring rule methods had dominated our politics for years, where was Senator E. D. Smith then? "Did Senator Smith align himself with the farmers and those who were working to place the ballot and the control of this government in the hands of the people of South Carolina, or was he in league with tho9e who, under the leadership of Col. Haskell, (Continued on Page Four).