Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 16, 1915, Image 1

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3T ' ' ISSUED SEHI-VEEKL^ ' ^ ^ ^ l k. orist'S sons. publisher.. } % 4ami,8 JJeurspapct; i J'or the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of th< Jeoptl. | It*"'M'o,^0,0,,'v*"*Y1<l"tK"""ct' established) 1855. YORK, S. C.. TUE3DA.Y, jSTOV"EMBER 10, 1915 JvTO. 92. TARZ THE By EDGAR RIC ^ ; Copyright, 1912, by tho Prank A. M? CHAPTER IX. At the Mercy of the Jungle. Clayton turned and rushed back toward the scene. The sailors stood in a frightened group, with drawn weapons, peering into the Jungle. The wounded man writhed and shrieked upon the ground. Clayton, unseen by any, picked up the fallen revolver and slipped it inside his shirt; then he joined the sailors. "Who could it have been?" whispered Jane Porter and the young man turned to see her standing wide eyed beside him. "I dare say Tarzan of the apes is watching us," he answered. "I wonder now who that spear was intended ^ for? If for Snipes, then our ape friend is a friend indeed. "By Jove! Where are your father and Mr. Philander? There's some one ** or something in that jungle, and it's armed, whatever it is. Ho! Professor! Mr. Philander!'' young Clayton shouted. There was no response. "What's to be done, Miss Porter? I can't leave you here alone with these cutthroats. You certainly can't venture into the jungle with me, yet some one must go in search of your father. He is more than apt at wandering off aimlessly, regardless of danger or direction, and Mr. Philander is only a trifle less impractical. I have it! You can use a revolver, can't you?" "Yes?why?" "I have one. With it you and Esmeralda will be comparatively safe in this cabin while I am searching for your father and Mr. Philander. Come, call the woman, and I will hurry on. They can't have gone far." Jane Porter did as he suggested, and when he saw the door close safely behind them Clayton turned toward the Jungle. Some of the sailors were drawing the spear from their wounded com* rade, and as Clayton approached he asked if he could borrow a revolver from one of them while he searched the jungle for the professor. The rat faced one, finding he was not dead, had regained his composure and with a volley of oaths refused. This man, Snipes, had assumed the role of chief since he had killed their former leader,- and so Wile time had elapsed that none of his companions had as yet questioned his authority. fnortAnon wa o a chrilC of the shoulders, but as he left them he picked up the spear which had transfixed Snipes, and thus primitively armed the son of the then Lord Greystoke strode into the dense jungle. Every few moments he called aloud the names of the wanderers. The watchers in the cabin by the beach heard the sound of his voice growing ever fainter and fainter, until at last it was swallowed up by the myriad f noises of the primeval wood. ^ When Professor Archimedes Q. Porter and his assistant, Samuel T. Philander, after much insistence on the part of the latter, had finally turned their steps toward camp they 4 were as completely lost in the wild and tangled labyrinth of the jungle as two human beings could be, though they did not know it It was by the merest caprice of fortune that they headed toward the west coast of Africe instead of toward Zanzibar, on the opposite side of the dark continent. When in a short time they reached the beach, only to find no camp in sight, Philander was positive that they were north of their proper destination, while, as a matter of fact, they were about 200 yards south of it. Mr. Samuel T. Philander grasped Professor Archimedes Q. Porter firmly by the arm and hurried the weakly * protesting old gentleman off in the direction of Capt Town, 1,500 miles to the south. When Jane Porter and Esmeralda found themselves safely behind the _ cabin door the negress* first thought was to barricade the portal from the inside. With this idea in view she turned to search for some means of putting it into execution, but her first view of the interior of the cabin brought a shriek of terror to her lips, and, like a frightened child, the huge black ran to bury her face in her mistress' shoulders. Jane Porter, turning at the cry, saw the cause of it lying prone upon the floor before them?the whitened skeleton of a man. A further glance revealed a second skeleton upon the bed. "What horrible place are we in?" murmured the awe stricken girl. But there was no panic in her fright. At last, disengaging herself from the frantic clutch of the still shriek_ ing Esmeralda, Jane Porter crossed the room to look into the little cradle, knowing what she would see there Derore ever tne tiny nttie sneieton disclosed itself in all its pitiful and pathetic frailty. What an awful tragedy these mute bones proclaimed' The girl shuddered at the thought of the possibilities that might lie before herself and her friends in this ill fated cabin. Quickly, with an impatient stamp of her foot, she endeavored to shake off the gloomy forebodings, and turning to Esmeralda bade her cease her wailing. "Stop, Esmeralda; stop it this minute!" she cried. "You are only making it worse. I never saw such a big baby." ^ Soon the girl found that the door was equipped with a heavy wooden bar upon the inside. After several | efforts the combined strength of the two enabled them to slip it into place ?the first time in twenty years. After Clayton had plunged into the ffi Jungle, the sailors?mutineers of the Arrow?fell into a discussion of their AN OF APES E BURROUGHS \ insey Company. next step, but on one point all were agreed?that they should hasten to put off to the anchored Arrow, where they could at least be safe from the spears of their unseen foe. So much had Tarzan seen that day that his head was in a whirl of won-1 der. But the most wonderful sight of all to him was the face of the beautiful white girl. Here at last was one of his own kind; of that he was positive. And the young man and the two old men, they, too, were much as he had pictured his own people to be. He did not understand anything of the motives behind all that he had seen, but somehow intuitively he liked the young man and the two old men, and for the girl he had a strange longing which he scarcely understood. As for the big black woman, she was evidently connected in some way with the girl, and so he liked her also. For the sailors, however, and especially Snipes, he had developed a great hatred. He knew by their threatening gestures and by the expression upon their evil faces that they were enemies of the others, and so he decided to watch them very 1 closely. Tarzan wondered why the man had 1 gone into the Jungle. Never did it occur to him that one could become lost in that maze of undergrowth ' which to him was as simple as the main street of your own home town. When he saw the sailors row away 1 toward the ship and knew that the gill til 1U 11C1 tumyauivii nctv *u his cabin he decided to follow the young man into the Jungle and learn what his errand might be. He swung ' off rapidly in the direction taken by Clayton and in a short time heard faintly in the distance the now only occasional calls of the Englishman to his friends. Presently Tarzan came up with the white man, who, almost fagged, was leaning against a tree wiping the perspiration from his forehead. The ape man, hiding safe behind a screen of foliage, sat watching this new specimen of his own race intently. At intervals Clayton called aloud, and finally it came to Tarzan that he was searching for the old man. Tarzan was on the point of going ofT to look "for "them himself when he , caught the yellow glint of a sleek hide moving cautiously through the jungle j toward Clayton. It was Sheeta, the leopard. He heard the soft bending of grasses and wondered why the young white man was not warned. Could it be he had failed to note the loud warning? Never before had Tarzan known Sheeta to ' be so clumsy. No, the white man did not hear. Sheeta was crouching for the spring, and then, shrill and horrible, there rose upon the stillness of the Jungle the awful cry of the challenging ape, and Sheeta turned, crashing into the underbush. Clayton came to his feet with a start. His blood ran cold. Never had so fearful a sound smote his ears. He was no coward, but if ever man felt the icy fingers of fear upon his heart Cecil Clayton, eldest son of Lord Greystoke of England, did that day in the feastness of the African jungle. The noise of some great body 1 crashing through the' underbush so ' close beside him and the sound of that 1 bloodcurdling shriek from above test- ' ed Clayton's courage to the limit, but J he could not know that it was to that < very voice he owed his life nor that < the creature who hurled it forth was j his own cousin?the real Lord Greystoke. i The afternoon was drawned to a 1 close, and Clayton, disheartened and ( discouraged, was in a terrible quan- i dary to keep on in search of Pro- 1 fessor Portor, at the almost certain 1 risk of his own death in the Jungle by ( night, or to return to the cabin, where he might at least serve to protect ' Jane Porter from the perils which confronted her on all sides. He disliked to return to camp without her father: still more he shrank froiu ihe thought of leaving her alone and unprotected in the hands of the mutineers of the Arrow or the hun- 1 dred unknown dangers of the jungle. , Possibly, too, he thought, before this the professor and Philander had re- 1 turned to camp. He started, stumbling back through the thick and mat- i ted underbush in the direction that he thought the cabin lay. To Tarzan's surprise, the young man was heading farther into the jungle in the general direction of Mbonga's 1 village, and the shrewd young ape man was convinced that he was lost, j The fierce jungle would make easy prey for this unprotected stranger in a , very short time if he were not guided quickly to the beach, thought Tarzan. Yes. there was Numa, the lion, even now stalking the white man a dozen ( paces to the right. Clayton heard the great body paralleling his course, and now there rose upon the evening air the great beast's thunderous roar. The man stopped with unpraised spear and faced the brush from which issued the awful sound. The shadows were deepening; darkness coming on. For a moment all was still. Clayton stood rigid with raised spear. Pres ently a faint rustling of the brush behind him appraised him of the stealthy creeping of the thing. It was gathering for a spring when at last he saw it. not twenty feet away?the long, lithe, muscular body and tawny head of a huge black maned lion. In agony the man watched, fearful to launch his spear, powerless to fly. He heard a noise in the trees above him. Some new danger, he thought, but he dared not take his eyes from the yellow green orbs before him. There was a sharp twang, like the sound of a broken banjo string, and at the same instant an arrow appeared In the yellow hide of the crouching lion. With a roar of pain and anger the beast sprang, but Clayton stumbled to one side, and as he turned again to face the infuriated king of beasts he was appalled at the sight which confronted him. Almost simultaneously with the lion's turning to renew the attack a naked giant had dropped from the tree above squarely on the brute's back. With lightning speed an arm that was corded with layers of iron muscle encircled the huge neck, and the great beast was raised from behind, roaring and pawing the air?raised o a noallv o a Plo vtnn tvnillH hnvo liftpH a pet dog. That scene he witnessed in the twi-| light depths of an African Jungle was ! burned forever into the Englishman's brain. The man before him was the embodiment of physical perfection and giant strength, yet it was not on this he had depended in his battle with the great cat, for, mighty as were his muscles, they were as nothing by comparison with those possessed by Numa. To his agility, to his brain and to his long, keen knife he owed his supremacy. His right arm encircled the lion's neck, while the left hand plunged the knife time and time again into the unprotected side behind the left shoulder, while the infuriated beast, drawn upward and backward until he stood on his hind legs, struggled impotently in this unnatural position. Had the battle continued a few seconds linger the outcome might have been different, but all was accomplished so quickly that the lion had scarce time to recover from its surprise before it sank lifeless to the ground. Then the strange figure which had vanquished it stood erect upon the carcass, and, throwing back the wild, hundsome head, gave the fearsome cry which a few moments earlier had so Btartled Clayton. Before him he saw the figure of a young man naked except for a loin cloth and a few barbaric ornaments on arms and legs and on the breast a priceless diamond locket gleaming against a smooth brown skin. The huntins: knife had been return ed to its homely sheath, and the man was gathering up his bow and quiver from where he had tossed them when he leaped to attack the lion. Clayton spoke to the man in English, thanking him for his brave rescue and complimenting him on his wonderous strength and dexterity. The only answer was a steady stare and a faint shrug of the mighty shoulders, which may have betokened either disparagement of the service rendered or ignorance of the langu^age. The bow and quiver slung on his back, the wild man once more drew bis knife and deftly carved a dozen large strips of meat from the lion's carcass. Then, squating upon his haunches, he proceeded to eat, motioning Clayton to join him. The strong white teeth sank inao the raw and dripping flesh in apparent relish, but Clayton could not bring bimself to share the uncooked meat with his strange host. Instead he dawned upon him the conviction that this was Tarzan of the apes, whose notice he had seen posted upon the sabin door that morning. If so he must speak English. Again Clayton essayed speech with the ape man, but the replies were in a strange tongue, which resembled the shattering of monkeys mingled with he growling of some wild beast. (To be Continued.) American Crops Worth $5,OCX),000,000. ?The nation's principal farm crops this year are worth about live and a tialf billion dollars, exceeding by more than half a billion their value in 1914, the previous banner value year in the country's crop history. There has ceen an unprecedented harvest, many >f the crops exceeding their best recards, and high prices due to the influence of the European war have contributed to swell the total value. Statistics announced by the department of agriculture in its November crops report base values on prevailing November prices. Corn, with a production of 3,090,509,000 bushels?34,000,000 bushels below the record crop of 1912?is worth $1,913,025,071, the most valuable corn crop ever grown, it exceeds the former biggest value crop, that of 1914, by $190,000,000. Wheat, with the largest production ever known in any country, 1,002,029,900 bushels, or about one-fourth of the world's wheat crop this year, is worth $932,888,999, or $54,000,000 more than the record made in 1914. The oats crop also was a record one, both in point of production and value. The harvest was 1,517,478,000 bushels ?almost 100,000,000 bushels better than the record of 1912?and its value, tew coo poo io nnn nnn tv>or> <) J AO f l>UrVVV,VVU IMVi C UIMIi the record value of the 1914 crop. Barley, rye, sweet potatoes, hay and rice were record crops in point of production, and tobacco almost equaled its best production. The rye and hay crops were records in point of value. The approximate value of the barley crop is $118,577,682; the rye crop, $37,861,403; buckwheat, $12,854,750; potatoes, $218,425,824; sweet potatoes, $42,156,050; hay, $877,054,890; cotton, $609,000,000; tobacco, $105,002,500; flax seed, $30,050,534; rice, $22,313,350; apples, $164,380,480; peaches, $60,613,736, and pears, $9,275,634. Potato prospects declined 9,000,000 bushels during October, the crop now being placed at 359,253,000 bushels. Motor-Carried Mail.?There was much opposition at the outset to the order of the postofflce department in giving the privilege of automobile transportation for the rural delivery carriers, but the experiment is proving profitable to such of the carriers as have invested in machines. The New York Journal quotes some information from The Topics showing that at the present time 400 or 500 routes are motorized, under the plan whereby the maximum salary has been raised from $1,200 without autos to $1, 800 with autos provided by the driver. Under the existing salary provisions many carriers are providing their own motor service on routes varying from 24 to 30 miles in length, finding it profitable to do so. With the increased remuneration it is expected that much longer routes can be covered in the same way, still providing an increased margin of pay for the carriers. A Kansas carrier, now using a light machine over a 29?-mile route, is quoted as asserting that the higher ralary will fully meet the additional cost to the carrier of serving the larger routes and leave him a larger net income than rural carriers have ever made before. This carrier figures it out that if he received $1,800 a year for covering 55 miles six days a week, his net income would be $1,042, or $200 more than he is now getting. MARKETING OF COTTON. Hon. John L McLaurln to North Carolina Farmers. WAREHOUSE MEANS TO AN END. ! i Cotton an Economic as Wall as a Po- 1 litical Issue of Paramount Improve- 1 ment?Financing of Warehouse Re- ' ceipts Points the Way to Rural Cred- < its?Study of Economics as Applied to Present Day Conditions. ' Durham. N. C., Nov. 16.?Address-Jl :???* XT-rv-eU fn rnllnn Cfnfo. T?n f_ I 1 !"?? kilC ..1WI 111 V.OI U11UU UVUWO A. I** mers' Union, in annual convention here today, Senator J. L. McLaurin of South Carolina, outlined the operation of tho state system in South Carolina, urged the passage of a warehouse law in this state, and blazed the trail towards a system of rural credits in the various southern states in the movement for which the state warehouse system is a large beginning. His address was listened to with evidences of approval, and its result has been to stimulate the vigorous effort of the Farmers' Union for a warehouse system in this state along similar lines to the South Carolina system. The outlook for a state sys-" tern in North Carolina, which would co-operate with the South Carolina system is very encouraging. Senator McLaurin in his address today, stressed the point that a warehouse system is only a means to an end; that cotton is not grown to warehouse. but to sell, and his remarks clearly and logically pointed to a system of rural credits, with an illumlnnting exposition of which he closed his address. "For the second time in the history of the United States," he said, "cotton has been a political as well as an economic issue of paramount importance. The fundamental cause of the War Between the States in the sixties was the fact that public sentiment outside of the south was in ^ favor of the abolition of slavery, and v the election of Abraham Lincoln was c the expression of that sentiment, g Opinion in the south was almost un- ^ animous that the monopoly which f we enjoyed in the production of cotton t could not be maintained without slave labor. Therefore, secession was a perfectly natural sequence. t "With the breaking out of hostili- e ties in Europe, cotton at once became g a national question. Every thoughtful g man in the south was convinced that c it was the duty of both state and c national government to take radical t action in sustaining the price of cot- s ton until the export demand revived. j| I go further than that; I believe r that it is the duty of the government p in normal times, by legislation, to ri stabilise the price of cotton aTld en- s able the producers to get the benefit fc of the operations of the law cf supply t and demand, I mean supply and de- t: mand for money as well as for cot- t ton. The south has reached the point i: where the average production of cot- ti ton is about fifteen million bales, li which, with the by-products f'om b cotton seed, is worth about one bll- ii lion dollars. A little more than one- s third of this cotton is consumed in e the United States, and the balance is a exported, The price of the product s consumed at home is fixed by the price of that which is exported. ii "Out of our two and one-half to s three billion bushels of corn only a- F bout seventeen per cent, ever leaves ii the farm; the balance of it is con- o sumed at home. No crop on earth s creates such vast international com- a merce as cotton, and for that reason T it has become, to a large extent, the n medium of exchange between this r country and the balance of the world s taking the place of gold in the settle- h ment of international trade balances. 0 Cotton is in a class by itself, and pos- v sesses more of the attributes of legal ^ tender currency than anything pro- h duced by human labor. It is the cor- I ner-stone of international finance. r and cannot be compared to wheat, ^ corn, meat, or anything of that sort. n It is distinctly an export crop, and properly baled and warehoused, it is ' imperishable and always convertible F into gold at a moment's notice. 0 "I believe that the state warehouse r idea is the beginning of a movement 11 which will revolutionize the market- * ing of our cotton crop and inaugu- n rate a prosperity on the south which n will be lasting because founded upon 8 correct business principles. It will v pave the way to a system of rural 0 credits based upen land which will c unlock vast capital now lying idle and e almost useless. If the product of out v land, cotton, can be transformed into * a fluid asset, why can't the same thing r be done for land, the basis of all n o wealth? Our state warehouse re? ceipts are negotiable Instruments which are now passing current In the money centres just like bonds and stocks. Of course we have made but a bare beginning, and need further legislation, both state and national. "The great lesson which this worldwide war is to teach, is that our civilization has reached the point of complex social and commercial life without political machinery to give it expression. The purely selfish appropriation of the comforts and blessings of material life for the use of favored classes is the rock upon which these nations have founded. If the United States would be spared the social, political and industrial upheaval that Europe will see at the close of this war, our best thought should be how to use our land and its product, our labor and its fruits, to develop good living and sweet prosperity for our people as a whole. "We have seen cotton within the past year go from five cents to twelve cents a pound. What Is the use of talking about the law of supply and demand, with a fluctuation in price of more than 100 Der cent.? What c does that mean? Not that there was r over-production of cotton, but that f the price went down because of faul- j ty distribution and the contraction of j credit, and that it went up because l of a loosening up of credits through p the Federal reserve banking system, s "The farmers of the south should e unite, and place cotton, through legls- c lative action, upon a safe, stable basis j It would be better for the manu- c facturer, because he would then be a spared the necessity of hedging his c contracts in the future market, and I It would destroy the gambling in cot- < ton, which is responsible right now tor the heavy decline in price. < "We need to understand finance as it relates to cotton, far more than 1 warehouses. This great war has de- 1 monstrnted one thing?that money i is not merely gold, but real money of < ei country are its products?the things that feed and clothe mankindand 1 that in a great stress and strain like < ihe Dresent the nations have verv lit- 1 tie regard for gold. 1 "The money of this country be-11 longs to the people of this country. ' It is made by their agent, the govern- ] ment, whose flat imparts the legal < tender quality without which it is not money. The true function of money s as a measure of value in exchangng the fruits of labor. I believe that 1 money should be issued by the government as nearly direct to the people is possible. If all the southern states 1 vould inaugurate warehouse systems i >n the same lines as South Carolina, t ve can have money issued by the gov:rnment on warehouse receipts, not c is a political necessity or a courtesy, j >ut as a matter of right The pound ] >f cotton should be the unit of credit, ind it should be the same in one t nan's hands as in another's, entitled g o the same rights and to the same irivilegcs, and every man know deinitely just what those rights and r >rivileges are. "Up to now," continued Senator t tlcLaurin, "South Carolina has haa he burden of this fight. They have the ystem in Texas, and the Georgia ^ egislature is now considering it, at ^ in extra session. If North Carolina ^ ind the other states will go into it, ve could have an inter-state board, vhich would establish a minimum >rice for coton, and never again will 1 t be necessary to sell a bale of cotton 8 >elow the cost of production." Taking up the matter of direct * ales, cutting out the profits of midlie men and speculators, Senator Mc- r jaurtn said that it must be remem- '( iered that we do not grow cdtton to r varehouse, but to sell, and in this :onnection he also urged state re- r rulatlon of grading to save the heavy 8 Irain now upon the southern farmers rom consistent undergradinj of cot- I on by local ouyers. > "The greatest burden that the south 0 ias labored under," he said, "has been n he lack of capital. We have the great- f st money crop on earth. We have ? riven a practical demonstration in Jouth Carolina of how easy it is to i onvert cotton into a negotiable se- s :urity as good as any railroad or state ?ond. Through the Federal reserve e ystem, we have made a break in the b nterest of rates. It is high interest g ates which enable the drones and larasites to devour the workers. The r iew .currency law is the first great ?] tepT^and the "next step is to confine anks to their only legitimate func- 2 ion, to-wit, as a channel for the dis- n ribution of money and credita It is n he beginning of a true national bankng system, not for personal profit, but o develop the nation. Our great need s money at a low rate on long time, ased upon land, to be used only for ^ mprovements or purchases of hometeads. Then for commercial purpos- P s, warehouse receipts for non-perlsh- P ble farm products as a collateral for hort time loans. "I believe that this great war now 8 a progress, and the unexpected v trength shown by Germany and p Yance, as contrasted with England, d a due to their different management 13 f the land Question, and unless we do ^ omething to avert It, the same dls- n ster will overtake the United States. a 'his country cannot exist except as a ation of home owners. I have just I ead a very Interesting book on this e ubject. T'.e author says: "England I as been developing extensively, while a lermany and France have been de- c eloping intensively: while England & ias been winning provinces, Germany a as been fertilizing her acres; while! In gland's drumbeat has been going ii ound the world and her traders have r ieen following In its wake, the Ger- a ians hive has been humming with the n ELbor of an increasing and well cared t or population. It is as though im- f erial Rome had divided, and one-half ii f her, her lust of conquest, had found efuge in England, and the other half, ^ ler aptitude for arms and organizaion, had established itself in Ger- ^ iany.' We have not grasped the full leaning of this?the two tremendous ocial experiments that are going on /ith England on one side and Germany n the other. They reached their ulmlnation?these two systems, the xtenslve and the intensive, one deeloping colonies all over the world and he other the acres at home. England epresents world dominion and Ger- ^ iany invdividual efficiency. From the utside we have been astonished at the a xpansion of Germany's foreign trade c nd her gigantic military power. This 0 ias diverted our attention from the klerman landschaften, the system of ural credits that has made Germany '' he power she is today. The permalency of all free institutions depends ipon the relation of the people to their md, and where this relation is absonte Innrllnrriism thp elitteriner suDer tructure of colonial expansion cannot ave a nation from decay. In England ess than thirteen per cent of the land s cultivated by its owners; the other ighty-seven per cent tenants at exortionate rents. In Germany Just the everse is true. Ninety per cent of he lands of Germany are cultivated >y the owners. Comparison of the igricultural output of the two counries is astonishing, and explains why t is that Germany, cut off from the lutside world, is still able to feel her >eople and carry on a war against * remendous odds. The products of the c Jerman farms are four times as great is those of Great Britain. "In this country there are no more >ublic lands open to homestead. The lome-seeker is thrown back on the ilder states, where land is high, and lot popular as a collateral. Hundreds >f millions of acres of unplowed American land lie untenanted every 'ear, though rain and sunshine ceaseessly invite them to produce for the s rood of the world. Poor men, with ' itrong hands, stand idly in the pres- a nee of tantalizing opportunity. The :ost of living grows higher, and men ire herded more and more into the s ities, because speculators, corporaten F ind foreign investors hold this land >ut of use until the increase in popu- ( lation shall make the "unearned Increment' of tremendous value. "Low rates of interest will cause capital that is now hired out to seek investment in industrial enterprises which will develop our country. I look forward to the time when we shall not ship our raw material across the ocean to be manufactured and the goods brought home and sold to us, but when our cotton will be manufactured an southern soil, and all that vast profit be kept here at home for the alessing of our own people. Our land, under a proper system of rural credits, will furnish the capital that Is leeded for the development of this country." GENERAL NEWS NOTES Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. Winston Spencer Churchill, chancelor of the Dutchy of Lancaster, has eslgned from the British cabinet, md will Join the army In France. The steamer Charles A. Luck, with l crew of over 2C0 men, Ehiluth to Juflfalo with grain, is reported lost In l^ake Superior with all on board. A Swiss statistician estimates that he total number of soldiers killed ilnce the European war began, at 6,100,000 men. A Chicago financial writer says that l nonoy is so plentiful in that city and ntercst rates so low that some of the , tanks are actually not making runting expenses on their loans. Washington advices are to the effect ] hat Gen. Carranza has put the ban on >ull fighting and chicken fights in dexlco and will encourage baseball and ither clean sports. The United States Steel corporaion announces that it will at once pend $10,000,000 In enlarging its vaious plants in order to take care of ! he rush orders it now has on its books, j A semi-official statement has been I nade in London to the effect that un- 1 I ess there is a material increase in the { lumber of army volunteers by Novem- ] ler 30, the government will take the lecessary steps to carry out its con- | cription pledge of November 2. The big wire rope plant of the John ' t. Roebling's Sons company at Tren- ( on, N. J., was damaged more than $1.- : 00,000 by a suspicious fire Thursday nornlng. The plant had large orders or the Allies. More than 1,000 men /ere thrown out of work. A Douglas, Arizona, dispatch of Thursday, says that six Carranza pies were put to death within the ''ilia lines on November llth. The excutlon was witnessed by a large number of Americans on the United States ide of the border. John D. Rockefeller contributed nore than $5,000 at Cleveland, O., .'hursday to buy tickets to the big lower show being held In that city for 5,000 children. More than 100 pollcenen and a score of firemen were iecessary to handle the crowds. The du Pont Powder company of Vilmlngton, Del., has received orders rom the Allies for powder to the mount of $65,000,000. The contract oes not call for delivery of all supplies until 1917. All of the du Pont lants will have to be enlarged to take are of the orders. Dutchess Skylark Ormsby, a Holteln-Frersian cow, has broken the zorld's record for > milk and butter production, says a Minneapolis, Minn., ispatch. The cow, produced 27,161 pounds of butter and 1,205 pounds of putterfat in one year. One week's lilk production totaled 558 pounds, nd butter 34} pounds. Raphael Conn, treasurer of the Uuefields Steamship company, travled 2,400 miles from Honduras to 'hiladclphla, to testify in the suit gainst the United Fruit company, harged with being the "Banana trust." lr. Conn only answered one question, nd his answer was "Yes, sir." The postofflce department at Washngton, has issued a formal order diecting postmasters to refuse acceptnce of parcel post packages for Gerlan and Austrian points, because of he refusal of the steamship heretoore carrying such mails to accept it a the future. A dispatch from Berne, Switzerind, says that German and Austrian iapers are openly rejoicing over the destruction" of the Bethlehem, Pa., teel plant. An "Austrian personage f high rank" is quoted as saying in n interview that the Americans had een repeatedly warned, Just as they /ere before the sinking of the Lusiania. Greatness of the United States.? 'he United States covers considerably ?ss than six per cent of the earth's rea, and contains only about five per ent of the earth's population, but fflclal records show that the United States produces: 76 per cent of all the corn grown n the entire world. iu per ueui ui me tuiiuii. 72 per cent of all the oil. 59 per cent of all the copper. 43 per cent of all the pig Iron. 37 per cent of all the coal. 35 per cent of all the tobacco. 26 per cent of all the silver. 24 per cent of all the wheat. 21 per cent of all the gold and conains more than 33 per cent of all the wealth in the civilized world. These figures were compiled July 915, by Dr. Joseph Caccavajo, C. E., rom the government reports and staistics for the year ending June 30, 914, and were therefore uninfluenced y the present war. The reports show that the United States produced 2,762,804,000 bushels of orn In 1914. 16,103,143 bales of cotton, 1914. 10,434,600 gallons of oil, 1913. 546,643 long tons of copper, 1913. 30,966,152 long tons of iron, 1913. 508,971,540 long tons of coal, 1913. 953,730,000 pounds of tobacco, 1913. 891,017,000 bushels of wheat, 1914. {40,348,100 silver, 1914. $88,884,000 gold. 1914. Should the United States "shut up ihop" just now, all the rest of the vorld would find the situation very wkward. to sav the least. , m , I John Temple Graves, of the editorial taff of the New York American, pro loses to make a number of lectures on ' National Preparedness" in South Carolina at an early date. ( SECEDERS IN COUNCIL Decennial Gathering at Old Homestead. WHERE FELLOWSHIP IS THE PASSWORD. Story of Duo West and Glimpse into the Life of the People?People With Serious Mission, but Nevertheless, Abundantly Human?Sidelights and Insights as to Unique Gathering. I have Just returned from Due West where I have been in attendance on I the annual meeting of the Associate 11 xveiurmeu aynuu, unu i am kuiqk 10 ' give some facts, impressions and descriptions that will be of peculiar interest to those who are familiar with the things of which I write and perhaps of general interest to many others. Due West, as perhaps most of my readers are aware, is situated in Abbeville county forty miles south of Greenville and about half way between Anderson and Greenwood. Up to a few years ago it was entirely cut off from railroad communication with the outside world; but now has an independent line that taps the Greenville and Columbia division of the Southern at Donald's, four miles away. The history of this famous old town goes back to a period previous to the American Revolution when it became a Convenanter preaching place. The first church, however, was not erected until about 1794. A small hamlet grew up around the church, and flourished along slowly until the establishment of Erskine college in 1838. The college had its origin in the desire of the Seceders to educate their own preachers, and was followed in due course by the establishment of a theological seminary and a college for women. These institutions brought in teachers with their families, and naturally and steadily the place has grown into the educational center it is today. The population, including ihe two colleges, is about 1,200. The principal buildings of course, are Erskine college and the women's college, a big Associate Reformed church, a small Baptist church, and numerous handsome residencea The town has Beveral stores, including a drug store, family and fancy grocery store, dry goods and millinery stores, stores carrying plantation supplies and heavy groceries, a bank, postofflce and telephone exchange; but no telegraph office. The printing establishment of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Is located here, and the only other enterprise requiring the use of machinery Is a cotton oil mill. There is also e a small well kept hotel, at which a guests are treated as members of the c family. e With very few exceptions all the t preachers in the synod have been 11 educated at Due West, and having a each spent from three to six years f In the town, are familiar with every t adult citizen, evt-i'y home, every flower n yard, and every mud puddle. Each and a every one of them feels a kind of a j proprietorship over everything in the f community, and although some of the f ministers have passed their three score1 a years and ten, and others are still in their early twenties, there is among them all a kind of sympathetic and appreciative fellowship that is hardly conceivable anywhere else other than In an ideal family of brothers. I had never been in Due West before; but as long as I expected to have the company of Rev. J. L. Oates, who belongs to the family, I felt no concern on that account. When it developed, however, that Mr. Oates would be kept back on account of an unexpected engagement, I began to feel a little nervous. This was especially so because we had been instructed to secure the next meeting of the synod to be field with the Yorkville church and I was counting on Mr. Oates to turn the I rick. But the nervousness did .not last long, for at Sharon I struck up F with Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Hunter,(e coth to the manner born and acquaint- q ?d with all the signs and passwords 8 if the order, Mr. Hunter having served his time in the college and semllary, and Mrs. Hunter having graduated from the woman's college and presided thereat for some years as a P eacher of mathematics. Mr. Hunter nformed me that he had already made jp his mind to vote for Yorkville, and Mrs. Hunter promised to win all the f< /cites she could. From thence onward ^ [ felt more encouragement. It had been arranged that a big 8 party of delegates was to assemble in n Greenville and go from there In a a special train to leave at 3 o'clock. Our c ittle party from Sharon, including Rev. F. Meek White and Elder W. S. Love, h vas alone for about three hours; but h i late train from toward Charlotte r jrought a party of about sixty preachers and elders, with a number of ladles. 8 rhere were almost enough to fill two c ;oaches of the special, and within a a short time after we got aboard, Mrs. Hunter reported that Rev. W. W. Orr ind Elder J. H. Ross were after synod v tor the East Avenue church (Taber- I tacle) at Charlotte. Of course we got ^ susy. We found that Drs. R. G. White and R. G. Miller and others tvere pledged to Dr. Orr and Ross, t! jut Dr. J. C. Galloway, promised his tl yote and that of his elder without j, hesitation, and Revs. G. L. Kerr of King's Mountain, and R. R. Caldwell of 1 Bessemer City, came out flatfooted in v jur favor. Also Mrs. Hunter landed y several other votes and it was not but . i little while until the opponents bejan to squeal "that if we do not reach c some kind of a compromise, the western delegates will take advantage of g the split and carry us away off, you 3o not know where." But it was no 8 :ime to compromise yet. There was S too much work to be done and it was <j still anybody's fight. _ After reaching Due West, I ran up- ^ Ml Rev. B. G. Pressly of Hickory n 3 rove and Smyrna, Rev. W. H. Steven- e son of Neely's Creek, Rev. W. P. Grler j, 3f Bethany, Clover and Crowders' Jreek, Rev. A. S. Rogers of Rock Hill. F \11 of them were with us, and made d no hesitation in saying so. Mr. Ste- r yenson took it quietly, said what he j ivould do and left it at that. Mr. Rogers was emphatic in the view that Forkville ought to have synod, and so s was Mr. Grier. Mr. Pressly went to ti work as if for a favorite candidate in i primary, and the next day he reported to me that the next meeting b it synod would meet in Yorkville. I b have not yet learned just how he ^ went about it; but from the way he nade his report he seemed to have no ? further doubt, and afterward he c ?ave his attention to other matters. ^ Mr. Oates had turned up about that n ime. and he also had learned in a re Tiarkably short time that it was all P ever but the voting. It was my first a experience with that kind of politics; 8 put whether they like it or not I am ?oing to hand it to them that some it these preachers certainly understood P the game. s Synod did not convene until Wed- t lesday morping at 11 o'clock. The college boys had a vacation for the 8 iveek, and nothing to do with the vacation except to go to church which s was optional. The most public ~ [dace in the town is on the corner opposite the drug store and in front of *! the postofflce adjoining. A crowd of h twenty or thirty boys gathered on this e corner about 9 o'clock. Presently one it them rolled an empty barrel that le found standing nearby up against p v tree on the edge of the sidewalk, p Then he picked up a copal stick about . Ave or six feet long and commenced poking in the barrel. He handled the d dick and worked his expression as though there were an o'possum or a coon in the barrel. Other boys joining he crowd would follow their curiosity tnd look in the barrel. With each P 'bite" it meant loud shouts of laugh- q !er. Presently the delegates beean p irriving at the postofflce, and marking their victims as they came, two or * hree of the boys would look into the c parrel one after another, and if neces- p *arv, let drop some inquiry as to 'Where did they catch him?" or "What lo they feed him on?" Several of the P venerable elders, all unsuspicious of anything like levity in a place like oue West, walked up and looked into ihe barrel, and most of them showed by their faces that they had been sold. Of course the boys enjoyod it nugely. All of the preachers were too wise to be caught, borne of them discussed the idea of looking into the barrel to make the boys laugh; but they did not quite dare to risk it Rev. Dr. F. Y. Pressiey came along and looked into the barrel; but walked on witnout any change of exprecsion, and ilthough tne boys gave him the horse laugh they were evidently not quite jure whether they had tooled him or be was kidding them. It was & ludicrous situation at times and lasted learly an hour. The hospitality of the people of Due (Vest is proverbial. Much has been written and printed on the subject; }ut it must be experienced to be fully rppreclated. It has been said that all )f them look forward to opportunities o entertain as their most pleasureable >rivllege and it must be so. Ail the lelegatea to synod of whom advance nformation could be obtained, were issigned to homes, of course, and there vero lists of willing hosts looking for he unassigned. The big crowd of 126 >r more was absorbed without effort; jut it did not stop there. As soon as he visitors are located, the residents >egin the rounds with their engagenent lists and made appointments vith friends, acquaintances and 'strangers," if there are any, for iunch," "tea" end even breakfast tome go at you with an invitation to iunch." You have a previous engagement Then it is for "tea," and f that is engaged, the would-be host? he bound-to-be host goes over the 'outine of the next day, and the day ifter, and finding no ct>en engagenents for lunch or tea, includes breakast Others, with note book and pen:11 in hand, come at you like this: '1 know you have your engagement 1st pretty full; but can't you find a dace where you can take lunch, tea >r breakfast with me?" And the linners that ere served make one take lotice?anywhere from half a dozen o twenty guests seated at once, at ables loaded with the choicest food iufiiclent for fifty. And of course hese parties are always pleasant. Evirybody not already acquainted with iverybody, is of course made acquainted. and there is no lack of suificient :ommon interest to furnish abundant feasant conversation. A detailed account of the proceedings of synod would, of course^ be of Ittle interest to the general reader, be :&use there was much in the routine hat was of concern only to the Assoliate Reformed church. However, the >rogramme was quite interesting, and he talks and addresses at the dlffernt conferences showed an earnestness i.nd zeal that were Impressive. At a onference on home ml salons, considering the question as to how best to irosecute the work, the speakers were 5r. R. Q. Miller, Dr. W. M. Hunter, md Rev. L & Caldwell. Each talked rom five to ten minutes, and these irief illustrations will show the sentllents of each: Dr. Miller told a humoriub anecdote of two frogs that had umped into two cream crocks in a armer's spring house. One of the rogs began to hollow "help, help," ind the other hollowed "hustle, husln" Next mornins the "helD" frog vas dead and the "hustle" frog: wan ittlng on a chunk of butter that he lad churned In his struggle. The peaker said that the salvation of the tome missions was to be found in lustle. Dr. Hunter described the rials and discouragements of the tome missionary in a seemingly unln'lting field; but advised that he must ;o down into the well and trust his lelpers above to stand at the windlass. Jr. Caldwell said that as a rule the onverts won in a foreigp missionary leld belonged to a class that we would tardly speak to on the street here, and hat we must keep that fact in mind nd go after the same class at home. There were also interesting and irofltable conferences on Christian ducation, and foreign mlsslona and [Uite a lot of routine work at business essions. W. D. O. CAU8E OF PELLAGRA FOUND 'ublic Health 8ervice Makes Announcment of Goldberger's Discovery. Discovery of the cause and cure or pellagra was announced formally Lst Tuesday night by the public health ervice at Washington. The announcelent follows the recent publication of . report by Surgeon General Joseph toldberger on a year of experiments i co-operation with southern states' ealth officers, demonstrating the corectness of the theory that a one lueu Uiei I&CKIIlg IU piviciuo n vu*u ause the disease and that a well balneed diet would cure it "The spread of this dread malady, rhlch has been increasing: in the Inited States at a terrific rate during he past few years, may now be checkd, and eventually eradicated," says he service statement. "It is estimated hat 75,000 cases o'f the disease will ave occurred in the United States in 915, and of this number at least 7,500 /ill have died before the end of the ear. In many sections only tubercudsIs and pneumonia exceed it as a ause of death." The final dietary tests made by lurgeon Goldberger and Assistant Sureon G. A. Wheeler at the farm of the fisslssippi penitentiary, where half a ozen of eleven convicts were given ellagra by feeding them for five lonths on bountiful meals, consisting ntirely of cereals and sweets and lackng in meats, milk, eggs, beans and eas. The convicts recently were paroned by the governor and are being estored to health through a corrected let. "Although the occurrence of nervous ymptoms and gastro-intestinal disturbances was noted early," says the tatement, "It was not until Septemer 12, or about five months after the eginnlng of the restricted diet, that he skin symptoms so characteristic f pellagra began to develop. The onvlcts upon whom the experiment ras made were kept under continuous ledical surveillance. No cases of ellagra developed In camp except mong those men who were on the retrlcted diet. The experimenters have herefore drawn the conclusion that ellagra has been caused In at least Ix of eleven volunteers as a result of he one-sided diet on which they subIded. "On the basis of this discovery the tates of Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida have laid their propaganda hrough their respective boards of ealth for the eradication of the disase." In earlier experiments about 200 atients had been cured by balanced atlons, and at the end of a year th?re ad been a slight recurrence of the isease in only one instance. L. L. Bultman, state dispensary aud or, reports that South Carolina dlsensaries sold S344.451.70 worth of 11 uor during the month of October, tichland county led with total sales of 81.066.35, while Charleston county ame second with $46,084. The dlsensary auditor reports that the value f stock now on hand In state disensaries is nearly $1,000,000. I