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/& CHARLES 1
with illustration:
OF SCENES IN THE .1
CHAPTER I.
Close to the serried backbone of the |
Cumberland ridge through a sky ofl
mountain clarity, the sun seemed hesi- I
tating before its descent to the nonzon.
The sugar-loaf cone that towered
above a creek called Misery was
pointed and edged with emerald tracery
where the loftiest timber thrust
up its crest plumes into the sun. On
the hillsides it would be light for '
more than an hour yet but below,
where the waters tossed themselves 1
along in a chorus of tiny cascades, the
light was already thickening into a
cathedral gloom. Down there the "fur- '
l rlner" would have seen only the rough
course of the creek between moss- 1
W velveted and shaded bowlders of j
[ _ titantic proportions. The native would
have recognized the country road in !
these tortuous twistings. A great block 1
of sandstone, to whose summit a man '
Mm standing in his saddle could scarcely '
reach his fingertips, towered above J
the streams, with a gnarled scrub oak
clinging tenaciously to its apex. Loftily
on both sides climbed the mountains
cloaked in laurel and timber.
Suddenly the leafage was thrust
aside from above by a cautious hand,
and a shy, half-wild girl appeared in
the opening. For an insiani sne nailed.
with her brown fingers holding
back the brushwood, and raised her
face as though listening. As she
stood with the toes of one bare foot
twisting in the gratefully cool moss
she laughed with the sneer exhileration
of life and youth, and started out
on the table top of the huge rock.
But there she halted suddenly with a
startled exclamation and drew instinctively
back. What she saw might well
have astonished her, for it was a thing
she had never seen before and of
which she had never heard. Finally,
reassured by the silence, she slipped
across the broad face of the fiat rock
for a distance of twenty-five feet and
paused again to listen.
At the far edge lay a pair of saddlebags,
such as form the only practical
equipment for mountain travelers.
Near them lay a tin box, littered with
small and unfamilar-looking tubes of
soft metal, all grotesquely twisted and
stained, and beside the box was a ]
strangely shaped plaque of wood ]
smeared with a dozen hues. That this {
plaque was a painter's sketching palette
was ? thing which she could not t
know, since the ways of artists had (
to do with a world as remote from ?
her own as the life of the moon or the l
stars. It was one of those vague mys- j
teries that made up the wonderful life i
of "down below." Why had these
things been left here in such confu- s
sion? If there was a man about who <
owned them he would doubtless return ^
to claim them. She crept over, eyes s
and ears alert, and slipped around to i
the front of the queer tripod, with all (
her muscles poised in readiness for j
flight. i
A half-rapturous and utterly aston- ,
ished cry broke from her lips. She
stared a moment, then dropped to the ]
moss-covered rock, leaning back on <
her brown hands and gazing intently,
i "Hit's purty!" she approved, in a
k low, musical murmur. "Hit's plumb ]
? dead beautiful!" <
I Of course it was not a finished pic- j
ture?merely a study of what lay be- ?
fore her?but the hand that had j
placed these brush strokes on the ]
academy board was the sure, deft
hand of a master of landscape, who ?
had caught the splendid spirit of the
thing and fixed it immutably in true i
and glowing appreciation. Who he ]
was; where he had gone; why his
work stood there unfinished and aban- ]
doned, were details which for the moment
this half-savage child-woman i
forgot to question. She was conscious <
only of a sense or reveiauon ana awe. s
Then she saw other boards, like the j
one upon the easel, piled near the i
paint box. These were dry, and rep- ]
resented the work of other days; but i
they were all pictures of her own j
mountains, and in each of them, as 1
in this one, was something that made i
, her heart leap. <
To her own people these steep hillsides
and "coves" and valleys were a i
matter of course. In their stony soil '
they labored by day, and in their shadows
slept when work was done. Yet s
someone had discovered that they had 1
a picturesque and rugged beauty; that 1
they were not merely steep fields i
where the plow was useless and the ]
hoe must be used. She must tell Sam- i
son?Samson, whom she held in an !
artless exaltation of hero worship;
Samson, who was so "smart" that he '
thought about things beyond her un- i
derstanding; Samson, who could not
only read and write, but speculate on i
problematical matters.
B Suddenly she came to her feet with
^ a swift-darting impulse of alarm. Her i
' ear had caught a sound. She cast <
i searching glances about her, but the
tangle was empty of humanity. The
water still murmured over the rocks
undisturbed. There was no sign of I
human presence, other than herself,
that her eyes could discover?and yet
to her ears came the sound again, and i
this time more distinctly. It was the 1
sound of a man's voice, and it was
moaning as if in pain. She rose and 1
searched vainly through the bushes of
the hillside where the rock ran out I
from the woods. She lifted her skirts
and splashed her feet in the shallow i
creek water, wading persistently up
and down. Her shyness was forgotten. !
The groan was a groan of a human
rrpntnre in distress, and she must find
and succor the person from whom it
came.
Certain sounds are baffling as to direction.
A voice from overhead or
L . broken by echoing obstacles does not I
r readily betray its source. Finally she i
stood up and listened once more in- i
tently?her attitude full of tense earnestness.
"I'm shore a fool," she announced,
half aloud. "I'm shore a plumb fool."
Then she turned and disappeared in
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the deep cleft between the gigantic
bowlder upon which she had been sitting
and another?small only by com
parison. There, ten feet down, in a i
narrow alley littered with ragged <
stones, lay the crumpled body of a <
man. It lay with the arm doubled i
under it, and from a gash in the forehead
trickled a thin stream of blood.
Also, it was the body of such a man 1
as she had not seen before. 1
Although from the man came a low <
groan mingled with his breathing, it <
was not such a sound as comes from
fully conscious lips, but rather that
af a brain dulled into a coma. (
Freed from her fettering excess of
shyness by his condition, the girl t
stepped surely from foothold to foothold
until she reached his side. She <
stood for a moment with one hand on t
:he dripping walls of rock, looking 1
Jown while her hair fell about her
face. Then, dropping to her knees, 3
she shifted the doubled body into a
i
A Low Groan Mingled With Hla
Breathing. t
leaning posture straightened the *
imbs, and began exploring with effl- J
dent fingers for broken bones. c
She had found the left arm limp e
ibove the wrist, and her Angers had r
liagnosed a broken bone. But uncon- a
sclousness must have come from the x
blow on the head, where a bruise was
ilready blackening, and a gash still v
trickled blood. r
She lifted her skirt and tore a long *
strip of cotton from her single petti- 11
roat. Then she picked her bare-footed
>vay swiftly to the creek bed, where a
she drenched the cloth for bathing and v
bandaging the wound. When she had s
lone what she could by way of Arst *"
lid she sat supporting the man's
shoulders and shook her head dubi- s
jusly. y
Finally the man's lids Auttered and f
bis lips moved. Then he opened his ^
?yes.
"Hello!" said the stranger, vaguely. 1
'I seem to have?" He broke off and h
nis lips smiled. It was a friendly, unlerstanding
smile, and the girl, Aghtng
hard the shy impulse to drop his *
shoulders and Aee to the kind masking
of the bushes, was in a measure
reassured. v
"You must hev fell offen the rock," a
she enlightened. e
"I think I might have fallen into 8
.vorse circumstances," replied the un
renown.
"I reckon you kin set up after a
ittle."
"Yes. of course." The man suddenly *
ealized that although he was quite v
:omfortable as he was he could 1
icarcely expect to remain permanently 1
n the support of her bent arm. He I
ittempted to prop himself on his hurt I
land and relaxed with a twinge of ex- >
:reme pain. The color, which had be- *
;un to creep back into his cheeks, left
:hem again, and his lips compressed T
hemselves tightly to bite off an exdamation
of suffering. e
"Thet air left arm air busted," an- f
lounced the young woman, quietly. ^
'Ye've got ter be heedful."
Had one of her own men hurt him- r
self and behaved stoically it would *
have been mere matter of course; but e
her eyes mirrored a pleased surprise s
it the stranger's good-natured nod and
his quiet refusal to give expression <1
to pain. It relieved her of the neces- v
jity for contempt. a
"I'm afraid," apologized the painter,
'that I've been a great deal of trouble t
to you." s
Her lips and eyes were sober as she a
replied. p
"I reckon thet's all right."
"And what's worse, I've got to be I
more, trouble. Did you see anything
of a brown mule?" I
She shook her head.
"He must have wandered off. May c
I ask to whom I am indebted for this x
first aid to the injured?" I
"I don't know what ye means?"
She had propped him against the *
rocks and sat near by, looking into his >
im*r W 1111 (iiiiiusi Uiflvuiitci uiiH aicau 1ness:
her solemn-pupiled eyes were '
unblinking: and unsmiling.
"Why, I mean who are you?" he t
laughed.
"I hain't nobody much. I jest lives *
over yon." 1
"Hut," insisted the man, "surely you s
have a name." <
She nodded.
"Hit's Sally." t
"Then, Miss Sally, I want to thank '
you."
Once more she nodded, and, for the 1
first time, let her eyes drop, while she 1
sat nursing her knees. Finally she *
glanced up and asked with plucked- <
up courage: 1
"Stranger, what mout yore name <
be?" i
"Lescott?George Lescott." *
"How'd ye git hurt?" 1
He shook his head.
"I was painting?up there," he said; r
"and I guess I got too absorbed in the T
work. I stepped backward to look at
the canvas and forgot where the edg-?
was. I stepped too far." **
The man rose to his feet, but he tottered
and reeled against the wall of
ragged stone. The blow on his head
had left him faint and dizzy. He sat N
down again.
"I'm afraid," ho ruefully admitted, ^
"that I'm not quite ready for discharge
from your hospital."
"You jest set where yer at." The
girl rose and pointed up the mountainside.
"I'll light out across the hill and
fotch Samson an' his mule."
"Who and where is Samson?" he
inquired. He realized that the bottom
of the valley would shortly thick- a
?n into darkness, and that the way j'
aut, unguided, would become impos- b
sible. "It sounds like the name of a P
strong man." |J
"I means Samson South," she en- 0
ightened, as though further descrip- a
don of one so celebrated would be reiundant.
"He's over thar 'bout threeluarters."
"Three-quarters of a mile?"
She nodded. What else could threejuarters
mean? p
"How long will it take you?" he K
isked. h
She deliberated. "Samson's hoein' K
:orn in the fur hill field. He'll hev
er cotch his mule. Hit mout tek a d
lalf-hour." h;
"You can't do it in a half-hour, can ci
rou?" H
"I'll Jest take my foot in my hand, si
in' light out" She turned, and with
i nod was gone.
At last she came to a point where
i clearing rose on the mountainside
ibove her. The forest blanket was
Gripped off to make way for a fencedn
and crazily tilted field of young e)
:orn. High up and beyond, close to c]
he bald shoulders of sandstone which f{
hrew themselves against the sky, was p
he figure of a man. As the girl halted w
LI ine rooi 01 me neia, ai ia.si, punung (j
rom her exertions, he was sitting on n
he rail fence, looking absently down A
>n the outstretched panorama below ^
?im. i8
Samson South < was not, strictly \s
ipeaking, a man. His age was perlaps
twenty. He sat loose-Jointed and jj
ndolent on the top rail of the fence, p
lis hands hanging over his knees, his l
loe forgotten. Near by, propped vj
igainst the rails, rested a repeating iB
ifle, though the people would have fe
old you that the truce in the "South- u
lollman war" had been unbroken for ts
wo years, and that no clansman need a]
n these halcyon days go armed afield, j]
CHAPTER II. C
Sally clambered lightly over the G
ence and started on the last stage of p
ler journey, the climb across the 111
'oung corn rows. It was a field stood a'
in end, and the hoed ground was un- ^
iven; but with no seeming of weari- ?
less her red dress flashed steadfastly
cross the green spears, and her voice pi
vas raised to shout: "Hello Samson!" tx
The young man looked up and tc
Laved a languid greeting. He did not ^
emove his hat or descend from his ^
lace of rest, and Sally, who expected ^
10 such attention, came smilingly on.
iamson was her hero. Slow of utter- pl
nee and diffident with the stranger, ai
rords now came fast and fluently as
he told her story of the man who lay
lurt at the foot of the rock. r
"Hit hain't long now tell sundown," G
he urered. "Hurrv. Samson, an' git r
ore mule. I've done give him my h(
romlse to fotch ye right straight
ack." ai
Samson took off his hat, and tossed
he heavy lock upward from his forelead.
His brow wrinkled with doubts. ^
"What sort of lookin' feller is he?"
While Sally sketched a description,
he young man's doubts grew graver. w
"This hain't no time ter be takin' IC
n folks what we hain't acquainted m
kith," he objected. In the mountains ?
fr
ny time is the time to take In Strangrs
unless there are secrets to be ^
uarded from outside eyes.
"Why hain't it?" demanded the girl. se
cc
He's hurt. We kain't leave him layn'
thar, kin we?"
Suddenly her eyes caught sight of
he rifle leaning near by, and straightray
they filled with apprehension. ^
ler militant love would have turned
CC
o hate for Samson, should he have
roved recreant to the mission of re- ^
risal in which he was biding his time, f
et the coming of the day when the
ruce must end haunted her thoughts. cf
She came close, and her voice sank
sa
mh her sinking heart. dj
"What air hit?" she tensely demandid.
"What air hit, Samson? What
er have ye fotched yer gun ter the
ield?"
02
The boy laughed. "Oh. hit ain't
iothin' partic'ler," he reassured. "Hit fe
lain't nothin' fer a gal ter fret herself t0
rbout, only I kinder suspicions ^
trangers jest now."
"Air the truce busted?" She put the q
luestion in a tense, decp-breathed ()1
rhisper, and the boy replied casually, a,
.imosi inuiiieieuwy. {}.
"N'o, Sally, hit hain't jest ter say Cl
>U?tcd, but 'pears like hit's right 0j
mart cracked. I reckon, though," he r
dded in half-disgust, "nothin' won't
ome of hit." j
Somewhat reassured, she bethought cj
terself again of her mission. a)
"This here furriner hain't got no v<
mrrn in him, Samson." she pleaded.
He 'pears ter be more like a gal than m
i man. He's real puny. He's got
vhite skin and a bow of ribbon on
lis neck?an' he paints pictures."
The boy's face had been hardening
vith contempt as the description ad'anced,
but at the last words a glow
ante to the eyes, and he demanded
ilmost breathlessly:
"Paints pictures? How do ye know
hat?"
"1 seen 'em. He was paintin' one
vhen he fell offen the rock and busted re
lis arm. It's shore es beautiful es?" C
she broke off, then added with a sudlen
peal of laughter?"es er picture." ei
The younp man slipped down from jj,
he fence, and reached for the rifle.
rhe hoe he left where it stood. .
"I'll git the nag," he announced jn
irielly, and swung off without further
larley toward the curling spiral of
imoke that marked a cabin a quarter l(
ri
?f a mile below. Ten minutes later
lis bare feet swung against the ribs
if a gray mule and his rifle lay balmeed
across the unsaddled withers. a'
'ally sat mountain fashion behind ^
lini, facing straight to the side.
(To Be Continued.) L;
OOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS
s Traced Id Early Flies of The
Yorkvllle Enquirer
EWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY
(ringing Up Reco.ds 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
ppearing under this heading was
ublished In our Issue of November 14.
913. The notes are being prepared
y the editor as time and opportunity
ermlt. Their purpose Is to bring
ito review the events of the past for
ie nleasure and satisfaction of the
lder people and for the entertainment
nd Instruction of the present generaIon.
106TH INSTALLMENT
(Thursday Morning, Jan. 6, 1862.)
The vigilence committee of this
lace, a few days since, arrested E. E.
IcCaffrey, (a northern man) who was
eretofore In the employ of Mr. E. M.
lirkpatrick, Jeweler and silversmith.
It appears from what we could un*
erstand, McCaffrey has been in the
abit of using language which was not
ompatable with southern interests,
te was accordingly lodged in Jail for
ife keeping.
Editorial Correspondence.
From the 12th Regiment.
2amp Pemberton," near Pocotaligo,
S. C.. Dec. 29, 1861.
Dear Enquirer:?Many of your readrs
have doubtless come to the conluslon
that my letters are "few and
ir between." The want of matter
roper to be published is the excuse
e offer for our apparent desertion of
uty. Rumors abound in our camp
early every day, stating enough to
itisfy the most inveterate newsmongr,
but on investigation, the mountain
i generally found to have been In
i.bor, and the product a mouse.
Our regiment left Pocotaligo, on the
1th, instant, at 8.30 o'clock p. m.,
ursuant to an order from General
ee, who had received dispatches adIsing
him that the Yankees were
incling in rorce near rori noym
:rry. We left our encampment with
ght baggage, accompanied by a deichment
of the North Carolina flying
rtillery, under command of Lieut.
[cElhaney, and proceeded to Garder's
Corner, a distance of seven miles,
ol. Donovant after conferring with
ol. Jones, who was stationed at thai
lace, faced his regiment about and
larched it back about two miles
bove Poctaligo, and bivouaced
mong the the bushes for the night,
ur company, accompanied by the arUery,
was, however, detailed for
Icket duty, and ordered to a position
vo miles distant, on a road leading
i Pages' Point. On the appearance of
lylight, it was ascertained that the
ankees had landed, or attempted to
y so.
On Monday morning the company on
icket duty returned to the regiment,
id all the camp equippage was brought
iwn from Pocotaligo. On Tuesly
the "long roll" was beaten, the
giment formed and marched to
ardner's Corner?the report having
ached us of another landing. This,
jwever, turned out to be story No.
vo. On Thursday, another alarm,
lother march and wolf story No.
iree.
Everything remained quiet until
rednesday morning, the 18th, when
le firing of artillery was heard in
ie direction of Port Royal Ferry. All
ere on the qui vive for the "long
ill," and preparations were made for
oving on a moment's warning,
bout sundown a courier arrived
om the ferry, stating that the North
arolina artillery had fired on one of
ie enemy's gunboats, disabling her
riously?that she was aground?and
>uld easily be captured. The comand
was immediately put in moon
and marched to whithin two
iles of the ferry, where we were inrmed
that the boat had fired into
leir flats loaded with men, who had
ime to her assistance?sunk one
it, and done much other damage to
ie Yankees. There being nothing for
i to do, we "marched down the hill."
There are matters about which we
>uld write, calculated to interest and
Ltisfy your readers, but prudence
dates silence. In regard to our
irces, suffice it to say that a sufficilt
number of men can be concentrati
at any point where our enemies
in harm us, to drive them back to
le cover of their guns. We have no
ar that they will accomplish much
wards subjugation in South Carona.
Since my last letter, the "Palmer
uards" have received many articles
' comfort from good friends at home,
id in their behalf we hereby tender
tanks. To Col. A. B. Springs for a
mtribution of $25.00; to the ladies
' Yorkville, Bethel and Bethesda
elirf societies for clothing, blankets,
loes, etc.; to Bev. E. E. Boyce, Maj.
B. Lowry and Wm. McGee for
othing; to Mrs. Samuel Blair; they
e under obligations for similar fairs.
The postoffice address of the regient
is Pocotaligo, S. C.
L. M. G.
(To be Continued.)
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE.
ews Items from All Sections of
South Carolina.
Dr. W. W. Wolfe was elected mayor
' St. Matthews last week.
Rev. A. T. Cornwell has resigned the
^ctorship of St. Paul's church, in
harleston.
A. s. saney, Jr., was on Friday, reected
secretary of the South Corona
historical association.
Fire at Furman University, Greenlie.
last week, did damage amountig
to less than 1100.
Sheriff John W. Davis of Oconee
>unty, was seriously injured in a
m-away accident, last Friday.
Senator Verner has introduced a
ill in the state senate which would
low motion pictures to be shown in
le public schools of the state.
A warehouse belonging to R. B.
aney of Oheraw, was destroyed by
fire last week. About 85 baty?s of cot- I
ton were destroyed. *
The boys' dormitory of the Spartan
academy at Landrum, was badly damaged
by fire last Wednesday night.
The origin of the lire is unknown.
A new flour mill is to be built in
Spartanburg at an early dat?, a com- (
pany with a capital of $10,000, having
been orgnized for that purpose.
The first official act of Governor
Manning last week, was to sign the
commission of a Beaufort county officer.
Charlie Jewell, a 11-year-old boy,
I waa run nuor hu a n antnmnhll? and I
seriously injured near the Poe mill in *
Greenville, last week.
J. E. Holmes, coroner of Edgefield s
county, died last Friday, following a ^
long Illness with Bright's disease. He
was about 70 years of age.
iDr. R. M. Grim of the United States c
iblic health service has arrived in t
artanburg to take charge of the 0
pellagra hospital there. f\
Mrs. Douglas Jenkins, wife of the a
American counsel at Riga, Russia, n
and a native of Charleston, died in p
Russia last week, following an opera- h
tlon. b
The annual meeting of the South 0
Carolina Bar association was held in v
Columbia, last Thursday. Hon. Chas. ,!
A. Woods of Marlon, was the prlncl- w
pal speaker of the occasion. a
Rev. C. A. Jones has resigned the
pastorate of the Thomas Memorial ?
Baptist church of Bennettsville, to
become educational secretary of the
South Carolina Baptist convention.
The dead body of Joseph Sullivan, n
a former soldier in the United States a
army, was found in his home on Sul- w
livan's island, last week, by neighbors
who were attracted to the house by the ^
cries of his little daughter. a
The town of Chesterfield was in b
darkness several days last week on h
account of the high water in Thomp- w
son's creek, which carried away about
forty feet of the dam of the Chester- d
field Light and Power Co. A
Representative Joseph A. McCullough
of Greenville, has Introduced a
bill in the house providing for an
amendment to the constitution for
equal suffrage. There is small possi- S
bility of the measure's passing. ^
Sheriff Rector of Greenville county, 9
has located Ellis C. Blackstone, who is p
wanted in Greenville on a charge of n
y
desertion of his family, in New Hampshire,
and the man will be returned to
e
South Carolina in a few days.
A committee of Confederate veterans ^
?one from each congressional district j(
in the state, which met in Columbia t]
last week, adopted resolutions asking
the legislature to pension every Con- w
feierate veteran and every widow of e
a veteran in the state. a
A negro preacher named Davis, pas- G
tor of the Timmonsville circuit, was q
d*qwned in Lynche's river near Tim- tl
monsville, Friday afternoon. The ti
negro drove into a barbed wire fence f<
on the river bank and was drowned b
before he could be rescued. o
A handsome open face watch, stolen
from the cruiser Olympia at the ?
Charleston navy yard last week, has
been recovered bv the Charleston do- b
lice, who found it in a pawnshop. The c
watch is the property of an officer on a
the vessel, and is valued at $800.
The children of Arthur Blackman of
Society Hill, were horribly burned ^
last week, when a kettle of boiling
water was poured over them. The y
children were playing on the floor ^
when the kettle on the stove in some y
manner was overturned.
Portland Ned, the famous safe- tj
cracker who, after his pardon by j,
Governor Blease, escaped from Federal C(
officers, was last week convicted of
robbing two postofflces in North Caro- n
Una and was sentenced to serve seven ^
years in the Federal penitentiary in C(
Atlanta. it
Representative Bowles of Green- el
wood county, has Introduced a bill in
the legislature which asks for four a
rural policemen to serve in that coun- si
ty. The need for additional policemen a
in Greenwood is urged because of the w
wave of crime which has been pre- b
vailing in that community. ti
Dr. B. B. Steedly, chief surgeon of a;
the Steedly hospital of Spartanburg, Cl
has taken the position of assistant ^
surgeon on the medical staff of the f(
state Baptist hospital in Columbia. C(
Former Governor Blease has been a
appointed a notary public by Governor
Manning. t(
Homer Dabb has been arrested in s<
Greenville county, charged with burning
the barn of C. P. Barnett of that
county. Barnett found an illicit dis- A
tillery, the property of Dabb, on his tc
place, and demanded that the owner w
remove the same at once. Dabb be- ^
came angered and shortly afterward
burned Barnett's barn.
g:
Herbert Clayter, Jr., 17-year-old son Q]
of a Richland county physician, was
shot and instantly killed near Hopkins,
Friday. The young man in com- n
pany with several friends, had been o]
hunting and attempted to unload his t
gun while crossing the railway track.
Finding the weapon stiff, he struck ^
the arm upon the rail to open the j
breech when it was discharged, Clay- (
ter dying in a few minutes.
J. F. Crawford, a traveling salesman bi
of Columbia, was seriously injured g
while on a railway train near Spar- g]
tanburg, last Thursday, when he was c]
struck by a cuspidor hurled by D. M. 01
Reaves, a traveling man of Spartan- tl
burg. Reaves intended hitting a news- t?
butcher at whom he had become sj
angered. Crawford got in the way st
with the above named result. Reaves fr
was placed under bond in the sum of tj
$200. b:
re
A Sad Mistake.?Editors have their bi
troubles. One of these men who pre- ui
sides over the destinies of a western a
newspaper was mourning the loss of ri
two subscribers. One wrote asking di
how to raise twins successfully while m
the other wanted to know how he gi
might rid his orchard of grasshoppers.
The answers were forwarded by mail, m
but the editor put them in wrong en- re
velopes. so that the man with the a
twins received the answer: "Cover lu
them carefully with straw and set fire
to it, and then the little pests, after 01
jumping in the flames for a few min- si
utes, will be speedily settled." And the st
man with the grasshopper was told to ol
"give castor oil and ruh their gums Js
with a bone." ol
ITTACKING THE WAREHOUSE:
, n
Md Kill Promising System In tbe "
Bornlng.
;OLUMBIA INTERESTS MAKE ASSAULT a
tf
Jnable to Advance Argument of Facte, 111
Newspaper Organ Makes Resorts to
Effort to Discredit the Warehouse h'
Commissioner and Create Prejudice w
Generally. w
Editorial. M
Columbia Record, Friday, January 22. t
"There's Nothing In It." ej
rhen he will do so is not specified. te
He does inform the body that "we aj(
ave twenty-eight warehouses, with
n aggregate capacity of 45,000 bales," W)
ut as to whether the storage capacity gT
as been utilized and to what extent ae
re are not told. th
But these are apparently minor and eg
isconsidered details in Commissioner sa
IcLaurin's scheme of things. m;
He dreams of bigger things. pr
He is fascinated with his calcula- is
Ions of the potentialities that inhere
i the simple title of "sales agent" for fe
louth Carolina of her cotton crops. fa
'hlnk of it! The factor for an entire |8
tate?for one and a half million peo- W(
le! The proposer and disposer of one f0
lillion and a half bales of cotton each th
ear.
It is a dream worthy of the dream- ga
r. ha
Aladdin's wonderful lamp never su
lsclosed such heaps of hoarded yel- ha
>w gold, rubbed he it ever so Indus- be
riously. of
He would build compresses; he f0
rould do away with middlemen of is]
very description; he would float m
hips; he would deal directly with tr
lermany where 25 cents is being to
uoted for cotton and "bring home ce
he bacon"?that is to say, some ?<
rifling hundreds of thousands profits th
3r each cargo, being the difference re
etween 8 cents and 25 cents on the itj
ther side. th
Harken to our South Carolina Col- po
nel Mulberry Sellers: ot
"If the state had one plant, as a be- in
Inning, located in Columbia, with a
ompress, just at this time, the sale of fei
single cargo of cotton in Europe at an
5 cents a pound, which is being paid qU
here, would have a tremendous ef- 8p
Mit in advancing the price of cot- ot
jn." co
He gives an illustration of a Sa- be
annah pool that "floated bonds for a th
alf million dollars to purchase several co
essels, in which cargoes of cotton EH
'ere shipped to Germany" and "sold ca
lere, those gentlemen stated to my mi
lformant, at a net profit of thirteen to
ents a pound. hii
"If any argument were needed, this th;
lere statement should be enough, th
[ere is one man producing a bale of th
otton at a loss of $20; here is another tic
taking $70 clear for fiinding a mark- La
W- W
The trifling circumstance of floating lal
half million dollars' bonds to buy mi
hips?the taking the risk of finding to
market by navigating seas sewed tai
rith floating mines and searched by ca
elligerent war ships looking for con- sci
aband and all the chances by flood foi
nd field of the "Strumpet Fortune," tei
uts no figure in the calculations of wt
iulberry Sellers McLaurin. The dif- ac
irence between 8 and 20 or 25 cent pe
otton safely landed in Germany is th;
11 "net profit." ed
D. W. Kemper of the Galveston cot>n
exchange, was quoted in an As- W
iciated Press dispatch printed in this st:
ewspaper yesterday, as saying that ga
It costs $12.50 per bale to secure an is
merican vessel to carry a bale of cot- tn
>n from Galveston to Rotterdam, Ca
hich is but two days' journey from qu
iverpool." to
"What excuse has a government for ne
dstence which cannot correct such sit
ross inequalities in the distribution
t wealth," exclaims Mr. McLaurin, Ca
nd our Mulberry Sellers would at a thi
lere wave of the wand of his imagi- all
ation sweep out of our path all the an
bstacles and difficulties that lie be- go
veen 8 cents cotton in South Carolina na
nd 25 cents cotton in Germany, which co
ave engaged and taxed the powers of th<
igic of the virile and acute mentality wa
f a Woodrow Wilson?which have thi
iven rise to an international issue or
etween Great Britain and the United be
tates that has not had its equal in re]
ravity since the Eagle and the Lion ed
lawed and clashed with each other ]
ne hundred and more years ago over op
le pernicious interference of the lat- en
>r with our sailors and merchant ly
lips on the high seas, even now th<
iraining to the breaking point the th<
ientfly, blood relationship and identi- mi
r of interests of the two powers to tal
ridge over amicably?which have th<
tused the Democratic president to me
ring in the most extraordinary measre
providing for the purchase of to
government-owned merchant ma- air
ne and precipitated an apparently po
rawn battle between the two great an
ational parties'in the halls of conress.
_
What excuse, indeed, has a govern- gls
lent for existence when a AlcLaurin
in obviate all these difficulties with
breath from his wonder-compelling ,u.
ings? Fe
But, alas, just as like as not, when
jr new worker of Arabian wonders
lould have transported his fleecy sei
aple to Germanic shores by means ha
' magic carpets, or, like another
ison, having overcome all the crops j^1
' armed men and other obstacles, he pja
We have before us the report of
State Warehouse Commissioner John
m Mcl^aurin to the general assembly.
The report is a pamphlet of some
leven pnges of printed matter, prin
ipally devoted to a disquestlon on te
he handling, financing and exporting fr
if cotton, and setting forth the muni[cent
results the commissioner could
.chieve if he were granted all the
tioney and power necessary for the
lurpose at the hands of the legislature,
ut nowhere Is there any reference pr
ut In the most general terms to the
perations of the warehouse system
irlth which he is charged and which it
* presumed the general assembly
tould particularly desire to know ht
bout in this connection. ? wj
The commissioner says he will file
supplemental report in which he ^
will include," "as directed by the act j?
list of the warehouses, locations, st
ames of managers, amount of cotton gt
n storage and such other details as
lay be necessary for your (the gener- Wj
1 assembly's) full information," but
hould have gained hia destination
dth his Golden Fleece?as like as
ot, the shrewd Teutonic trading mind
ould rate cotton that could be obtalnd
so easily as not In the 25-cent class
f cotton that could not be had in sufcient
amount to supply the demand
t all. .
"If we can find an outlet abroad,"
le South Carolina cotton producer
lay revel in riches, is the keynote ol
r. McLaurin's divinations?but what
as all this to do with the matter of
arehousing the South Carolina crop
hich the legislature entrusted to Mr.
cLaurin at his own instance largely?
About all Commissioner McLaurin
ills us on this score is that the "preslt
warehouse act is but a small bennlng
in so great a work."
He comes to the new legislature
iking new powers and grants of
oney, but like the man entrusted
ith the one talent of whom the Bible
lis us, we are constrained to think
om his failure to report on it that he
ust have gone and burled his talent
?cause it was so small.
But, what then?
Can the lord of the vineyard make
m master over big things who has
-oved faithless in small things?
Some weeks ago we clipped from
he Yorkville Enquirer, whose editor
us been the friend and familiar of
jmmissloner McLaurin in the ware>use
and other matters, an article
hich in part follows:
"While in Columbia, Wednesday, the
litor of The Enquirer called on Hon.
>hn L. McLaurin, at his office in the
ate warehouse down on Gervais
reet near the river, and found him
ixd at work on problems connected
Ith the financing of cotton.
"Asked about the details of the sysm,
and as to how he was getting
ong generally, Mr. McLaurin said (
at he was still taking over other
arehouses, and that the system was
owing, but unless the general asmbly
should see proper to enlarge
e powers of the commissioner,
pecially as to the matter of making
les and negotiating loans, the law
ay as well be repealed so fat as any
esent or future value to the tarmers
concerned."
If Commissioner McLaurin knows or
els that he has made a failure in so
r as the present warehouse system 1
concerned, it seems to us that it
ould be the frank and proper course 1
r him to inform the legislature of
at fact. i
We have had an open mind with re- <
xd to this warehouse experiment and
ive desired to see it made a practical <
ccess. We believe Mr. McLaurin in <
Lve been sincere in thinking he could i
neflt the state and farmers by means
it, but we have not had much hope
r its practical success since the leglature
and Mr. McLaurin made the (
istake, as we think, the first in enusting
the execution of the scheme ,
Mr. McLaurin, and the last in ac- (
pting and undertaking the trust.
>me mm have a mission to talk and
eorize and some have the talent for
duclng theory to working practical/.
Both of these types are useful in
elr way, no doubt, but it is as imssible
to make them fit in each
tier's place as to put a square peg
a round hole.
Mr. McLaurin is on record as con- 1
asing that he is easily "stringed" 1
id gulled in business matters. He 1
lotes and swallows the theories and
eculations of Theodore Price and (
hers on the cotton problem (to the ;
nfusion of his own argument, if it (
> analyzed) as glibly in his report to
e general assembly as he ever dis- ]
ursed on the subject of "Commercial ]
imocracy," at a former period in his i
reer when some bunco artist "com- 1
srciallzed" him, as we have been led 1
believe from his own confession of <
s jejune career. But we suggest 1
at all this has nothing to do with <
e practical working and details?
e success or non-success of the par- ,
:ular warehouse system that Mr. Mc- ,
Lurin was commissioned to conduct,
e do not apprehend that the legls:ure
constituted Mr. McLaurin comssioner
to travel about the country,
hobnob with presidents and potentes,
in some sort of ambassadorial
paclty; to devise international
hemes of trade and negotiate plans
r revolutionizing the established sysm
of commercial business. If it did
} do not wonder that he declined to
cept any salary beyond "actual exnses''
out of the picayune 115,000
at the general assembly appropriatfor
his experiment.
How many junkets, think you, to
ashlngton and New York in the
rle that befits Mr. McLaurin's elent
proportions and his ideas of what
"the thing" for an ambassador of
ide for the ancient and historic
.rolina commonwealth would be reired
to reduce that $15,000 pittance
the condition of a last year's bird
st after it had passed through a
>ge of wintry winds?
We do not believe the state of South
.rolina is either in the humor or in
e circumstances at this time especiy
to enter upon a new, extensive
d untried experiment in paternal
vernment. It cannot by itself domite
and control the currents of the
tton trade. If the effort to better
e conditions of the farmers by the
ixehouse system as authorized by
e last general assembly has proved
is destined to prove a ranure, we t
lieve the warehouse act should be i
pealed and the experiment abandon- t
r
It would clearly be Idle, in our t
tnion, at this time for the state to I
ter upon a scheme which confessedentalls
the creation of compresses, ^
? building or purchase of ships s
? elimination of all the system of (
ddlemen and established instrumen- g
ities of business and the supplying g
3 places of these with new instrumtalitles.
8
rhe attempt would be foredoomed
failure, if South Carolina had not
eady had a surfeit of experience t
litical exploitation of her material j
d financial resources.
- Governor Manning on Saturday (
;ned an order approved by Adjutant r
neral Moore, calling for an Imme- c
ite Inspection of the National Guard, ^
? inspection to begin at Edgefield on fc
b. 8. r
t
>
-Judiciary committees of both the n
late and house of representatives o
ve returned favorable reports upon f
i anti-tipplng bill which provides a c
nalty for giving tips to employes in t
tels, restaurants and other public s
rtou n
GENERAL NEW8 N0TE8.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
It la estimated in London that England
will have fully 1,000,000 fighting
men in France by the first of March.
There are more than 10,000 earthquake
victims being cared tor in the
regular and temporary hospitals of
Rome, Italy.
Eight iron furnaces of the Thomson
Steel Works at Braddock, Pa., were
put in operation last week, giving employment
to 1,000 men.
The Grafton state bank at Grafton,
W. Va., was closed last week following
a run, caused, it is said, by the
failure of a big bank at Unlontown,
Pa.
The rail mill of the Illinois Steel
company at uary, ina., is to resume
operations February 8, adding 1,500
men to the force of 3,000 now employed
by the company.
Major Devile, of the French army
medical service, has received not less
than 97 wounds since the war began.
Most of his wounds have been slight,
but several have boen quite serious.
After a strike lasting Ave months,
in which a demand for an increase of
wages was the issue, 1,600 glove cutters
of Greenville and Johnston, N.
Y., have returned to work. The demands
were not granted.
A dispatch from Athens, Greece,
says: "The decision of Roumanla to
enter the arena as a belligerent Is confirmed
from various sources. All agree
that the time is to be the first week
in February."
During the year 1914, there were 190
fatal grade crossing accidents in New
York state. In 1913, the total of such
deaths were 134. Automobiles on
grade crossings were responsible for
35 deaths last year.
The steamship Maryland of the Baltl
Atlantic
LUI1UIC, V/Xicoapc?uvc auu /iviaunv iwiway,
was destroyed by Are In Chesapeake
bay, Friday. Twelve of the 108
passengers and crew are unaccounted
for.
A story sent out from Paris is to the
effect that the ministers of finance of
England, France and Russia, at a recent
Joint meeting In Paris, arranged
to float a war loan of (3,500,000,000,
to bear 3} per cent Interest
A correspondent writing from Rome,
Bays: "It is again Insistently rumored
that Emperor Francis Joseph,
while fully realizing the danger of the
cessation of the sovereignty of Hungary
at the present time, has decided
to abdicate."
The Efficiency Board of the National
Bakers' association, in Chicago, last
week, recommended that the bankers
of the country make loaves to weigh
26 ounces to sell at 10 cents, putting
the increased price on the higher cost
of wheat.
Two million dollars will be distributed
among farmers in various states,
els compensation for the destruction
of their cattle and property in the
crusade against the foot and mouth
disease, if the promisee of congressional
leaders are carried through.
iweniy-iwo ui wie gpcuiu uoyuij
sheriffs charged with firing on striking
employes of tho American Agrlcultuial
Chemical company at Roosevelt,
N. J? last Wednesday, In which
one man was killed, are being held
for trial under bail bonds of $2,000
each.
As the result of the failure of the
First National Bank at Unlontown,
Pa., last week, due to failure to observe
the banking laws, and the flrst
3lg failure under the reserve banking
laws, the Federal Reserve board is
considering the idea of having the ira:lonal
banks submit weekly statements
jf condition.
Peter S. Tully, known by his comrades
as "Slice Bar," of Vallejo, Ca..
was the first of the veteran sailors of
:he battleship Oregon on her dash
iround South America in 1898, to take
advantage of the voyage-enlistment
it the Spanish war crew of the Orejon,
for the ceremonies incident to
the official opening of the Panama
canal.
Judge Worschauser at White Plains,
N. Y., last week, following the acjulttal
of a defendant charged with
shooting Chas. H. Wilson, before discharging
the Jury, said to that body:
'I cannot agree with your verdict, but
I must accept it. There is but one
conclusion in my mind, and that is
that this is a clear case of blackmail.
The verdict indicates a miscarriage of
lustice."
The military committee of the lower
louse of congress, has favorably reported
the McKellar bill, providing for
the establishment in each state of a
nilitary training school, which must
lave at least 300 students, who will
-eceive a thorough academic education
ind suih military Instruction from
irmy officers, as will fit them for the
iuties of reserve or volunteer officers
n time of war.
Dr. E. Lester Jones, public commlslioner
of fisheries, in a report to Presdent
Wilson, after an investigation of
charges of wholesale and continual
violations of liquor laws in regulations
n Alaska, says: "Wherever the white
nan has settled the saloon prevails
md that has had more to do with the
uination of the Indian and the Aleut
han all other causes. I am advised by
-eliable authority that up to this year
here had not been a single conviction
>y a Jury in Alaska."
Jos. J. Ettor, leader of Industrial
SVorker8 of the World, is in Jail at
St. Clairsville, O., charged with trealon.
Ettor was scheduled to make an
tddress at Bellaire when arrested, his
innounced subject being: "Against
var: war for the classes and war
tgainst all capitalists of the world."
Mrs. Frances Munds of Yavapai
:ounty, is the only woman member of
he Arizona senate, now in session at
^hnpniv
? The following Is the substance of
)rder No. 4, issued by Governor Manilng
last Fridav as commander-lnhief
of the militia: The purported
irder of the 11th day of January, 1915,
mown as general order No. 2, is here>y
declared void and of no effect. All
ights, duties, privileges and obligaions.
whether civil or military, of the
?ational Guard and of the volunteer
nilitia, in whole or in part, and of the
fflcers and men thereof, are not afected
by said illegal order, but have
ontinued and do now continue as
W. mi rvVt nnM UnA la
uuuftii naiu in uci nau ucvri uccii i?
ued. Thia order is to take effect imnediately.