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By EDGAR RIC
; Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A. Mu
CHAPTER XVII.
Left in the Jungle.
* Slowly Jane turned ana wamcu
back to the cabin. She tried to
imagine her wood god by her side in
the saloon of an ocean liner. She saw
him eating with his hands, tearing his
food like a beast of prey and wiping
his greasy Angers upon his thighs.
She shuddered.
She saw him as she introduced him
to her friends?uncouth, illiterate, a
boor?and she winced.
She had reached her room now, and
as she sat upon the edge of her bed of
ferns and grasses, with one hand rest*
ing upon her rising and falling bosom,
she felt the hard outlines of the man's
p/ locket beneath her waist.
Kj She drew it out, holding it in the
palm of her hand for a moment with
tear-blurred eyes bent upon it. Then
^ she raised it to her lips, and crushing
it there, buried her face in the soft
i ferns, sobbing.
J "Beast?" she murmured. "Then
heaven make me a beast, for, man or
beast, I am yours!"
She did not see Clayton again that
day. Esmeralda brought her supper to
her, and she sent word to her father
that she was suffering from the re-action
following her adventure.
The next morning Clayton left early
with the relief expedition in search of
Lieutenant d'Arnot There were 200
armed men this time, with ten officers
and two surgeons and provisions for
a week.
They carried bedding and hammocKs,
the latter for transporting their sick
and wounded.
It was a determined and angry company?a
punitive expedition as well as
? one of reMef. They reached the scene
of the skirmish of the previous expedi/
tion shortly after noon, for they were
' now traveling a known trail, and no
time was lost in exploring.
From there on the elephant trail led
straight to Mbonga's village. It was
^ but 2 o'clock when the head of the colP
umn halted upon the edge of the clearing.
In a few minutes the village street
was filled with armed men fighting in
an Inextricable tangle. The revolvers,
carbines and cutlasses of the Frenchmen
crumpled the native spearmen
and struck down the black archers
with their bolts half drawn.
Soon the battle turned to a wild rout
and then to grim massacre, for the
French sailors had seen bits of D'Arnot's
uniform upon several of the black
warriors who opposed them.
They spared the children and those
of the women whom they were not
forced to kill in self-defense, but when
at length they stopped, panting, blood
ownatlnor It UTQ Q hPPfl imp
CWCiCU cwiu onvwMHO! ?v ?? ??
there lived to oppose them no single
warrior of all the savage village of
Mbonga.
Carefully they ransacked every hut
and corner of the village, but no sign
^ of D'Arnot could they find. They
questioned the prisoners by signs.
Only excited gestures and expressions
of fear could they obtain In response
to their inquiries concerning their fel.
low.
\ At length all hope left them, and
they prepared to camp for the night
within the village.
The prisoners were herded into three
huts, where they were heavily guarded.
Sentries were posted at the barred
gates, and finally the village was wrapped
in the silence of slumber except
for the wailing of the native women
for their dead.
The next morning they set out upon
the return march. Their original intention
had been to burn the village,
but this idea was abandoned, and the
prisoners were left behind, weeping
and moaning, but with roofs to cover
rthem and a palisade for refuge from
the beasts of the jungle.
Slowly the expedition retraced its
steps of the preceding day. Ten loaded
hammocks retarded its pace. In
^ eight of them lay the more seriously
wounded, while two swung beneath
% the weight of the dead.
Clayton and Lieutenant Charpentier
brought up the rear of the column, the
Englishman silent in respect for the
other's grief, for D'Arnot and Charpentier
had been inseparable since boyhood.
It was quite late when they reached
the cabin by the beach. The dead and
wounded men were tenderly placed in
boats and rowed silently toward the
cruiser.
Clayton, exhausted from his five
days of laborious marching through
the jungle and from the effects of his
two battles with blacks, turned toward
the cabin, to seek a mouthful of
' food and then the comparative ease of
his bed of grasses after two nights in
the jungle.
By the cabin door stood Jane Porter.
"The poor lieutenant?" she asked
"Did you find no trace of him?"
"We were too late, Miss Porter,"*he
replied sadly.
"Tell me?what had happened?" she
asked.
"I cannot, Miss Porter. It is too hor
rioie.
She thought of what Clayton had
said of the forest man's probable relationship
to this tribe.
To him. too. suddenly came the
^ thought of the forest man. The strange
W jealously he had felt two days before
swept over him once more.
In sudden brutality that was unlike
him he blurted out:
"When your forest god left you he
| was doubtless hurrying to the feast."
w He was sorry ere the words were
spoken, though he did not know how
^ cruelly they had cut the girl. His regret
was for his baseless disloyalty to
^\ one who had saved the lives of every
member of his party nor ever offered
harm to one.
f The girl's head went high.
"There could be but one suitable reply
to your assertion," she said" icily,
"and I regret that I am not a man that
I might make it.'*
She turned-quickly and entered the
AN OF
APES
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nsey Company.
I cabin.
Clayton was an Englishman, so the
girl had passed quite out or sight hefore
he deduced what reply a man
would have made.
"Upon my word," he said ruefully,
"she called me a liar. And I fancy I
deserved it. I'd better go to bed."
But before he did so he called gently
to Jane Porter upon the opposite side
of the sailcloth partition, for he wished
to apologize, but he might as well
have addressed the sphinx. Then he
wrote upon a piece of paper and shoved
it beneath the partition
Jane Porter saw the little note and
ignored it, for she was very angry and
hurt and mortified, but she was a woman
and so eventually she picked it
up and read it It said:
My Dear Miss Porter?I had no reason
to insinuate what I did. My only
excuse is that my nerves must be unstrung,
which is no excuse at all.
Please try to think that I did not
say it. I am very sorry. I would not
have hurt you above all others in the
world. Say that vou forgive me.
Wm. Cecil Clayton.
"He did think it or he never would
have said it," reasoned the girl. "But
it cannot be true. I know it is not
true!"
One sentence in the letter frightened
her?"I would not have hurt you above
all others in the world."
A week ago that sentence would
have filled her with delight. Now it
depressed her.
She wished she had never met Clayton.
She was sorry that she had ever
seen the forest god?no. she was glad.
And there was that other note she had
found in the grass before the cabin the
day after her return from the Jungle,
the love note signed by Tarzan of the
apes.
Who could be this new suitor? If
he were another of the wild denizens
of this terrible forest, what might he
noi ao to ciaim nerr
(To be Continued.)
MODERN BOMBSHELLS
Those Containing High Explosives
Most Effective.
The high explosive shell is being
heard around the world, and it has become,
if not the decisive factor of the
war, at least a greater factor than before
the war the generality of military
men belieyed it would, according to the
Washington Star. Shells are as old as
gunpowder and cannon, or even nearly
so, and the high explosive shell has
been experimented with ever since
ordnance experts turned their thoughts
to explosives of higher efficiency than
charcoal gunpowder. In the early 80s,
Capt. Zalinski of the American army,
was firing iron shells, charged with a
light weight of dynamite, across the
Golden Gate between Fort Point and
Lime Point at San Francisco.
There are many varieties of the high
nvnlAoltm aVi^Jl nfltinn VlflLA its
preference, and exercise it in the matter
of its shell. It is believed that the
high explosive shell was used first in
action in the war between the British
and Boers in 1899-1902, when the British
naval 4.7s and six-inch guns fired
projectiles charged with lyddite. In
that war the British high explosive
shells were found very useful for destroying
buildings and attacking
strong intrenchments, though these
were rarely constructed by the Boers.
In the Russo-Japanese war, according
to the reports of the British staff
officers with the Japanese army, the
Japanese "arrived at the conclusion
that shrapnel is of little use against
strong, deliberately prepared infantry
intrenchments, and produces but little
effect against artillery in gun pits. For
that reason they used a mixture of high
explosives and shrapnel, and when
shelling strong infantry intrenchments
they use a preponderating number
of high explosive shells." The proportion
carried in the Japanese- batteries
was 30 per cent of high explosive
and 70 per cent of the shrapnel.
The United States before the present
war batteries carried 80 per cent
shrapnel and 20 per cent shell. The
high explosive shell is made of steel,
both forged and "bar stock." It contains
no bullets, but a charge of high
explosive?in the British army and
navy usually lyddite; in the French
army melinite, which is similar to
lyddite; in the Japanese army shimose,
which is a variant of lyddite; in the
German army and navy usually trinitrotoluene.
A British ordnance authority, pointing
out that the effect of a shell is
much more local than the effect of a
shrapnel, has written:
"It is immensely destructive within
a very small area. The splinters of
an 18-pounder field gun high explosive
shell cover an ellipse 50 yards broad"
by ten yards long, or an area of only
500 square yards, one-fifteenth the
area affected by shrapnel. But whereas
a wooden screen has often proved sufficient
shelter against shrapnel bullets,
the splinters of a high explosive shell
wreck everything near, and the mere
concussion may be deadly to human
beings.
In addition to high explosive shell
and common shrapnel, there is a high
explosive shrapnel which combines or
compromises shell and shrapnel qualities.
Soon after the opening of the
twentieth century the German field artillery
favored the employment of
nothing hut high explosive shell in
their field guns, and though no such
startling step as the complete abandonment
of shrapnel was taken by the
German army, the allowance of high
explosive shell was made very large.
It was about this time that the Krupp
works brought out a combination high
explosive shell and shrapnel which is
now being extensively used by German
artillery and also by the field guns of
the other armies.
A writer on artillery thus describes
this form of projectile: "The shell is
in two parts. The head contains a
fuse which may be set for either time
or percussion ignition and a charge of
high explosive in a thick steel case.
Attached- to this Is a thin steel case
containing shrapnel bullets embedded
in trinitrotoluene and fired by the fuse
in the nose. When used as shrapnel 1
the fuse is set to explode by time; the
charge opens up the body of the shell
and releases the bullets with great vlo- ,
lence. The head with the high explo- I
sive flies forward and- explodes on
striking the ground. If employed as
high explosive shell the fuse is set to
detonate on percussion or on striking
the target, when both the head and
body explode with much the efTect of
an ordinary high explosive shell."
The bursting charge of the British
shell is lyddite, which is formed principally
of picric acid melted with
some vaseline, and picric acid is a coal
tar product which has various uses,
one of which is as a yellow dye. It Is
claimed for picric acid that it is a
more powerful explosive than German
"T. N. T.," or trinitrotoluene, but It has
one drawback in that It forms compounds
with alkalis and some metals
which are exceedingly explosive and
can be detonated or set off almost by
a scratch.
EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT
What Various South Carolina NewsPapers
Think of Various Things.
South Carolina, after December 31,
will be interested in any literature pertaining
to waterways.?Charleston '
Post. I
I
Took Some of Them.
Editor Hearon, just back from ;
New York, reports in the Spartanburg
Herald that It is reported in the metropolis
that the Ford factories in Detroit
will have to close down because
Mr. Ford is said to have taken all the
"nuts" to Europe.?Greenwood Journal.
Texas is Sure.
Dallas tried hard to get the Democratic
convention, pleading the loyalty
of Texas as a reason why that city
should be favored. But that very
same loyalty is one reason why Dallas
lost out. A convention goes where
votes are doubtful, not where they are
sure, and every one knows that Texas
will vote the Democratic ticket just
as long as there is such a ticket to be
voted.?Greenville News.
Strikes and Unions.
This particular section of the south
is in the midst of a reconstruction
period, having to do with labor and
the wages of labor. Mill operatives,
actuated by the conversation of their
Yankee co-workers, are awakening to
the fact that they may have greater
rights and privileges than have been
accorded them. The operatives, as
usual, want shorter hours and more
pay, and they want an effective labor
organization. Mill owners object to
the organization of labor. Employers
usually object to organized labor, for
^flen two~or tfiree are gathered to- \
seiner ineir voiceu la luuuer itnu carries
to a greater distance. And yet,
object though employers may, the
unions are coming south. No need to
kick against the pricks. As well accept
the inevitable gracefully. Conflict
may keep off the day of union
labor in the mills, but not for long.
There are always two sides to labor
disputes, but each side has its justification.
The mill operative has an
inalienable right to strike when he
chooses, for higher wages, shorter
hours, better working conditions or
any other thing he may have set his
heart upon. He also has a right to
persuade his brother to quit work and
Join him in the gentle pastime of
knocking the boss. On the other hand,
the mill president and underlords
have an inalienable right to fire whom
they choose when they choose, to shut
down the mill whenever the whim
strike? them, and to cut or raise
wages at their pleasure. The mill and
all that appertains thereto belongs to
them. They have the right to do with
it as they choose. So that mere rights I
won't get us anywhere, for rights often ]
conflict. There are but two possible
solutions of labor problems. One is to
let either capital or labor wax so <
strong that it can absolutely dominate ]
the opposition. The other is for labor ,
and capital to co-operate in a spirit
of justice and reciprocity. The latter 1
way is the better way. When one
side shows a disposition to be reason- '
able, the other usually follows suit. ,
When one is bullheaded, the other
adopts similar tactics. It is the busi
ness of labor to do as little work as ?
possible and get as much pay as pos- i
sible. It is the business of capital to
get the greatest possible effort out of
employes, and pay as little as possible
for it. It is the business of labor to
get a living- It is the business of
capital to get more capital. That
sounds like the hard philosophy of I
Machiavelli, but men are faulty, and ,
capital and labor will be standing with
locked horns when Gabriel plays
reville. In the meantime, it would be i
pleasanter for all concerned if mill
owners had gumption enough to rea- .
lize when they are up against the inevitable,
and to make a virtue of nec- '
essity by granting a little of what i
operatives ask.?Fountain Inn Tribune. |
GREAT DECLINE IN CROP
<
Government Report Says Only 11,161,000
Bales. (
The 1915 cotton crop amounts to ;
5,338,588,000 pounds exclusive of lint- <
ers, and is equivalent to 11,161,000 i
500-pound bales, the department of i
agriculture announced last Friday in '
its final estimate of the season. 1
That is 2,300,000,000 pounds less
than last year's record crop. The
value of the lint this year, however, is
approximately $78,000,000 more than
last year's great crop. Cotton was :
being sold by farmers on December 1. '
at 11.3 cents a pound, while last year
on that date they were getting 6.8 cents
a pound. At the higher prices this
year the crop is worth $603,260,000,
while last year's lint was worth $525,- :
324.000. I
This year's crop of 11,161,000 bales
of 500 pounds, gross weight, com- 1
pares with 16,134,930 bales last year,
14.156.486 bales in 1913, and 13,033,235
bales, the average total pVoduction, exclusive
of linters, for the five years,
1909-1913. !
The final official figures giving the i
exact size or mis year s crop win do
issued by the census bureau next
March, when complete statistics from
the pinners have been compiled.
The estimated production, exclusive i
of linters, by state, with comparisons,
follows:
Ave rape
States 1915 1914 1909-13 !
Va 16,000 25.222 20,538
X. C 708,000 390,631 808,154
S. C 1,160,000 1,533,810 1,294.422
Georgia .. .1,900,000 2,718,037 2.086.59S
Florida 50,000 31.255 61,561
Ala 1,050,000 1,751,375 1,354,579
Miss 940.000 1,245.535 1,181,320
I "u 360,000 449,458 340.765
Texas .. . 3.175,000 4.592.112 3,730,765
Ark 785.000 1.016,170 867.778
Tenn 295,000 383,517 336,866
Missouri ... 52,000 81,752 64.876
Okla 630,000 1,262.176 64,876
Cal 34,000 49,835
All other
states ... 6,000 15,045 14,713
FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS
Is Traced In Early Files ol The
Yorkvllle Enquirer.
HEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY ;
Bringing Up Records of the Past and
Giving the Younger Readers of Today
a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge
of the Things that Most Concerned
Generations that Have Gone
Before. I
The first installment of the notes appearing
under this heading was published
in our issue of November 14,
1913. The notes are being prepared by
the editor as time and opportunity permit.
Their purpose is to bring into
review the events of the past for the
pleasure and satisfaction of the older
people and for the entertainment and
instruction of the present generation.
1718T INSTALLMENT .
(Thursday Morning, Jan. 23, 1868.)
The Convention.
To'the exclusion of our usual variety,
we devote a large part of today's paper
to the proceedings of the mongrel convention
now in session at Charleston.
We are aware of the fact that the large
majority of our readers do not sympathize
with the convention or its purpose,
yet we are satisfied that they are
curious to know something of its doings.
For the reports we furnish our
readers, we are indebted to the Courier,
Mercury and News. On Friday
last, the convention adjourned over to
Monday. The failure of the mall on
Tuesday, leaves us without information
of what was done on Monday.
Remarkable Game of Marbles.
Hon. S. R. Mallroy, ex-secretary of
the Confederate navy, has recently
published in a Florida paper, a series
of "Pen and Ink Sketches" of the days
of the Southern Confederacy. He mentions
an interesting incident, connected
with the retreat southward of
Mr. Davis and his cabinet, after the
capitulation of General Johnson,
which occurred at the residence of
Colonel A. Baxter Springs, in this district.
The writer says:
"The party had stopped, by lnvita- (
tion, for rest at the residence of a
gentleman, not far from the Catawba
river. His dwelling, beautifully situated
and surrounded by ornate and cul- 1
tivated grounds, was reached about 4
o'clock p. m., and the charming lady of
the mansion, with that earnest sympathy
and generous kindness which Mr.
Davis in misfortune never failed to receive
from southern women, soon made 1
cirarv man nf naptv fnnrat hlfl I
t?vi/ iiiMit W4 vtiv pi*i v; fcviovv ? '
cares and feel, for a time at least,
"O'er all the Ills of life victorious."
After such slight renovation and
changes of their travel-stained toilets
circumstances permitted, an hour of
rr-tretfling rest, it was a novel sight
to see Mr. Davis and Mr. Reagan, with
a. little son of their kind host as their
illy, playing an animated and well
contested game of marbles against his
second son, a boy of some ten years,
supported by Gen. Breckenridge and
mother cabinet officer. The game
lasted nearly an hour, and notwithstanding
the skill of his opponents,
Breckenridge, who plays the best game
cf marbles of any leading man since
fudge Marshall, and who had his usuil
good luck, came off victorious.
"The youngsters, two bright, intelligent
Southern boys, will never for?et
that ardently disputed game of
marbles with Mr. Davis, who, to their i
infinite delight, seemed as much at
some with the words of caution and
command, from 'knuckle down at taw'
:o 'roundings,' as themselves."
Married?On the 14th inst., by Rev.
J. S. Nelson, Mr. J. B. Rhyne of Gaston
county, N. C., and Miss Maggie
E. Fewell of Yorkville.
At the residence of the bride's fath?r,
on Thursday, the 9th, inst., by Rev.
Mr. Carothers, Wm. McClelland of
Charlotte, N. C., and Miss Mary Stewirt
of Fort Mill, S. C.
On Tuesday, 14th inst., by Rev. W.
W. Ratchford, Mr. Lee S. White and
Miss Dorcas Culp, all of this district.
On the 9th inst., by J. P. Hood, Esq.,
Ambers Lee of Chester district, and
Miss Amanda Estes of Union.
(Thursday Morning, Jan. 30. 1868.)
Repudiation.
It is potent to everyone who has read
the reports of the proceedings of the
convention, that the scheme of universal
repudiation meets with no favor
in that body.
A homestead law will probably be
passed, and debt contracts for negroes,
declared null and void; but beyond
this, no other relief can be hoped for
by debtors. There has been an impression
for some time past, that the
convention would wipe out all old
debts. The sooner this notion is dispelled,
the better it will be for the
country. The convention has no disposition
to do anything of the kind,
even if it had the power; which no
sane man believes it has. It will be the
desire of that body to make land so
cheap that it will be within the reach
of the poorest. This can be accomplished
by permitting all of the land
in the country to be thrown on the
market.
Let no debtor, then, delude himself
by the thought that he can evade
his debts and hold his property; but
while it is yet time, let him propose
to pay what he can, and all just men
who have money owing to them, should
accept of a liberal compromise. In
this way, and only through this means,
can debtors escape utter bankruptcy.
Married?On the 16th inst., by J. D.
P. Currence, Esq.. Mr. Abram Howser
and Mrs. Elizabeth Willis, all of Gaston,
N. C.
On Tuesday evening, 21st inst., by
Rev. W. W. Ca rot hers, Mr. Robert
Finley and Miss Elizabeth McCallum,
ill of this district.
At Jacksonville, Alabama, on the
night of the 15th inst., Mr. J. T. Elliott
of Chester, and Mrs. Emelle A.
Kirkland of "Bailey's Varieties."
(To be Continued.)
SAVAGE DOGS IN CAMP
British War Prisoners at Wittenberg
Treated as Criminals.
The extremely unsatisfactory conditions
of the British prisoners of
war camp at Wittenberg have been
the subjects of reports, which were
issued yesterday by the press bureau,
from the American Ambassador in
Berlin and members of the Embassy
staff. I
Mr. Llthgow Osborne reported that f
his whole Impression of the camp
authorities was utterly unlike that
which he received in every other i
camp which he has visited. Instead
of regarding their charges as honorable
prisoners of war, the men appeared
to be regarded criminals,
whom a regime of fear alone would D
suffice to keep In obedience.
Sir Edward Grey having informed
the American Ambassador that he j
had read with great concern that report
on the conditions at Whittenberg,
Mr. Gerard himself forwarded, on
the 8th instant, a report of a personal
visit to the camp.
Mr. Gerard says he regrets to state
that the impression he gained was c
even more unfavorable than he had c
been led to expect. Among the 56 .
oltHHnn ra Via fnnnrl 1 0 worn
LiTiuau piiouucia nc &uuuu am ttvi v
Without overcoats. At the military
barracks he found a total of 16 over- fl
coats among 278 men. The allegation ^
that some men had had their over- .
coats taken away was at first denied, 13
but on Mr. Gerard reminding the of- p
fleer that the general had informed c
Mr. Osborne he had a right to do
this he agreed, and said that this t
course was perfectly proper. _
The men told Mr. Gerard that one ?
of the British medical officers at the ?
camp had been recently struck by a ?
German non-commissioned officer. y
On investigation this proved to be p
true. J
Many prisoners complained that
flogs were brought in by German sol- d
fliers on night duty, and that they D
bad had their clothes torn by them. S
Mr. Gerard was officially Md that s
these dogs were needed t protect h
the German soldiers.
Sir Edward Grey has expressed his t(
astonishment that a British medical D
offcer has been struck by a German ?
ion-commissioned officer, all the c
more so, he points out, as the officer
tvas detained solely for the convent- a
snce of the German government. ^
A.nd he has added the hope that steps a
will at once be taken severely to pun- n
ish the non-commissioned officer in c
question and to prevent the recur- 1(
rence of such an unseemly breech of i,
liscipline. a
In a note of the 12th Instant with d
regard to the introduction of a sav- n
ige dog into the camp, Sir Edward
Grey lakes the strongest exception t(
:o the use of police dogs in the camp. ^
He also says that he regrets to ob- d
serve that in spite of the severity of
the weather only 16 out of 278 Brit- 1(
sh prisoners of war are provided t
with overcoats, though it would seem e
:hat overcoats are available.?London t
Observer. e
PALMETTO GLEANINGS ?
f;
Current Events and Happenings
Throughout South Carolina. jj
The Jasper Lumber Company of w
Jasper county, has been commissioned f
with a capital of >100,000. v
v
Elbert Dawkins, a Newberry county n
negro drank more than a quart of gin fi
nn Friday, December 3. He is dead. "
Dirt was broken Saturday for Spart- t
mburg's new >250,000 hotel. The a
nullding will be seven stories tall. 'J
Dr. John A. Brunson of St Mat- b
thews has decided to accept a call to g
;he pastorate of the First Baptist fi
:hurch of Sumter. t
Senator B. R. Tillman ? roposes to ^
ntroduce a bill in the United States f,
senate calling for the establishment f;
it a government plant to make armor r
nlate. J
The election on the question of b
lorming McCormick county to be g
made up from parts of Greenwood, a
Abbeville and Edgefield counties is t<
neing held today. w
Rev. C. I* Brown- of Japan has been n
elected a member of the Lutheran p
Mission board to succeed Dr. R. C. .
Holland who died in Columbia recent- .\
ly. He will be general secretary of ihe
nission's board.
p
First Lieutenant Enoch C. Garey of s
:he United States army has been or- h
iered to the Citadel, Charleston, as ^
nsiructor of military science and p
actics. He will relieve Frist Lieu- p
enant Jesse Gaston who has been ,,
nstructor at the Citadel for some time
J cist. is
George W. Tidwell, sentenced to n
(even years' imprisonment for shoot- o
ng R. Emmett Walker after the latter $
tad admitted seducing his daughter, it
las abandoned his appeal to the su- E
preme court and will enter upon the tl
lervice of his sentence within the next a
:ew days. ti
The following have been named as !'
postmasters in different places in 11
south Carolina by the president: W.
3. Hite, Batesburg; G. I. Hutchinson,
summerville; W. J. Stanley, Hamp- "
on; J. C. Jennings, Pickens; A. P. .
stewart, McCormick; J. P. Ouxts, ;
Edgefield; L. S. Blowers, Prosperity. ?
The two story frame dwelling of j,
Fohn Whisonant of Blacksburg was s
lestroyed by fire last week. The ?
property was valued at about $3,000. ,T
McQueen Mack, a negro boy of c,
Orangeburg county, is jail in Orange- e,
purg charged with an attempted c
criminal assault upon a white girl of a
:he F\>rk section of Orangeburg county. a
Quincy Miller and John W. Shealy, g
r'oang white men of Lexington e
pounty are in the Lexington county b
lail charged with robbing Cleveland n
Bell, a 13-year-old negro boy of $1.50 o
md then setting his clothing on firo r<
lfter they had poured kerosene over c
lim. It is said that the boy's presence e
pf mind saved him from burning to t:
leath, he having jumped into a pond s
learby after his clothing was ignited. F
He was painfully burned as it was. n
Greenwood Rogers and two other ?
legroes serving sentences on the state :!
prison farm in Kershaw county made
heir escape last week after they had
pverpowered a guard and taken his s
Winchester ritle and pistol away from
lim. Rogers was serving a sentence *
pf life imprisonment for the murder ?
pf a white man in Laurens county. A ?
eward of $50 has been offered for
:he capture of each of the escaped .
ponvlcts. "
Jim Red, Ernest McGrier and Eu
jene Lipford, negroes, are under ar- ij
est charged with entering the store 5
)f W. T. Fulle a merchant of Brad- ],
ey, Greenwood county, and stealing 0
mods therefrom. The store owner n
laving missed goods on several oc- 5
:asions, set a gun at the door fixed 0
n such a manner as to be discharged (,
.vhen the door was opened. At the f(
:ime of the last robbery the gun was c
lischarged but there was no evidence a
)f the guilty parties. A rural police- e
nan noticing the negro, Jim Red. a
imping several days later, became
suspicious, and examining the negro's w
eg found four shots in it. Red then S(
confessed that he had entered the n
store and had been shot and he also f,
mplicated the other two negroes. n
The recommendation of the execu- ai
ve committee that no action be taken o
n the case of the University of South ir
Carolina, which admitted recently o
hat it had eight ineligible players w
svho participated in games this sea- p
son, to which that Institution was a cs
i>arty was adopted at the first session p
)f the Southern Intercollegiate Athle- o
ic association here, says a New Or- w
eans dispatch of Friday. It was ordered,
however, that the university be t<
ldmonished to exercise greater dili- o
?nce in future to safeguard its athle- s<
ic standards. The committee based ci
ts recommendations 011 the "fact that o
his is the university's first year in fi
:he S. I. A. A., which made it easy for a
he general slackness which usually T
characterizes local control to re-act ir
ipon the faculty representative to d
nake him less vlligant than he might ir
jtherwise have been and in view of w
:he dismissal or disqualification of the h
juilty players and In view of the fact rr
:hat the university has done away
vith the office of graduate manager, n
substituting therefor a student man- f<
igership, responsible to the faculty." d
'ROGRESS OF THE STATE.
ddress of Governor Manning to Commercial
Congress.
ROBLEMS IN PROCESS OF SOLUTION.
>erfection of the Warehouse System?
Possibilities of the Regional Reserve
Bank?Need for Rural Credit System?Other
matters of Importance.
Hon. Richard I. Manning, governor,
lelivered the following address to the
sommercial congress, on its convening
n Charleston yesterday:
Th a hnnnr est n r A?i Hlntr nvor thp
Irst session of the meeting of the
louse of southern governors has
een accorded to me. It Is a sincere
ileasure to greet you here and to
laim you as our guests.
The significance and importance of
he subjects for discussion will be
eoognized by a glance at the proramme.
This congress will bring us
ieasure as a necessary accompaniment
f the gathering together of men and
fomen representative in character and
harming personality. But pleasure is
ot its object Nor are we here simpiy
? adopt resolutions. We are here to
eal seriously with genuine, serious
roblems?problems that affect us of
he south particularly, but, in a wider
ense, affects us in the nation. We are
ere as southerners, but we yield not
o north, east or west in our loyalty
a the nation; and as Americans we
ledge our devotion and support to
ur country's flag and to our country's
onstitution and laws.
Foremost among tho subjects to be
ealt with here is that of "Education."
'his subject is broad onough to cover
11 the others, for without education,
0 other need bo considered; and eduation
in its final analysis is the prob;m
of the betterment of the race. It
1 education, too, that will lead to
pply science to agriculture, the founation
state of the material developtent
of the south.
The importance of applying science
o agriculture cannot be overestimated,
'he increased cost of living makes a
lemand for increased production,
rhich cannot be stilled. The prob>ms
brought upon us by the war in
he old world across the water are
nough to spur us onward to solve
hem. But besides dealing with presnt
conditions, we will be wise if we
an catch the vision of future opporunities,
making them count in our
avor.
Rising to the viewpoint of the great
resident who is now guiding our naional
destinies, we can see that all
re do-for ourselves is preparation also
or the service we will bo called ur?on
? perform for the rest of the stricken
rorld. It will be a great service. Imicmorial
cities must be raised again
rom thoir ashes. Peoples once wealthy
ud still proud, must be fed and clothd.
The simple preservation of peaceul
progress will, when peace comes
gain to Europe, stand up as a beacon
ght of hope to the broken soldiers,
rho will make so large a part of
Europe's male population. like all
reat services, this will bring its regard
to us. The things we give will
mooth the ocean way for trade in
nings we sell, and a national impetus
rill be given to all our Industries,
'hese rewards will be our Just dues,
or*we have not escaped scatheless
rom the mighty struggle. All of us
emember the heavy cloud that settled
ver our activities in the early days
f that conflict The seas were closed
o us; the fleecy staple of the south
lutted the market; food was high
nd money was unobtainable. Men
ell us now, and tell us truly, that
re are unprepared for war. We were
ot then even prepared to remain at
eace while others fought.
Aim we are nut prcpu~itru iuuaj,
Parenthetically, let me say that I beeve
firmly that South Carolina'
tands conscious of national onprearedness,
but is ready and does
land squarely with the president in
is policy of national preparedness for
efense.) I repeat, we are not prearei
today. This presents, in one
hase, the task of the Southern Comlercial
congress.
Cotton is a southern product, but it
i a product of national importance. In
ormal times it maintains the balance
f trade. It brings to our shores
600,000,000 to $900,000,000 in gold, and
: pays for the goods we import from
lurope. It is the material that clothes
tie world, and it is practically without
competitor. The south has pracically
a monopoly in its production;
ut can the south afford to ignore the
isistent demand that, in handling
nd marketing this world-important
roduct, our methods must be changed
i order that he who produces this
rop shall receive the full benefit of
liis monopoly? Cotton is not perishble,
but can be kept indefinitely if
roperly stored. Cotton that was a
urden to us a year ago, must be inured
as a resource, whether foreign
larkets are closed to us or not. We
lust establish a broader system of
otton warehouses, properly safeguardd,
so that Insurance and interest
harges can be obtained at low rates;
nd warehouse receipts so protected
nd safeguarded that they will be
uilt-edged collateral anywhere and
verywhere. The Federal reserve
ank can, and does, furnish all money
eeded, and we of the south must do
ur part in seeing that all reasonable
equirements for the safety of the seurity
of cotton warehouse receipts are
omplied with. I firmly believe that
he declaration of Mr. McAdoo, the
ecretary of the treasury, that the
'ederal reserve bank would lend thirty
lillions or more, if necessary, on coton
properly warehoused, saved us
rom disastrous losses by maintaining
he price of cotton, r ? has saved
rom ruin the cuuon growers of the
outh.
The ability to obtain loans on cotsn
has exhibited and proved that
eriods of depression, with markets
lutted or closed, can be bridged over
nccessfully, and our producers of
otton can, by slow, gradual marketig
of this product, earn a reasonble
profit in production. We must
atch closely our transportation faciliies,
and see that defects in this
ranch of our marketing system no
jnger close markets of the world to
ur goods. The national and interational
-significance of this crop is
rought forcibly to the front by the
rder of Great Britain In placing cot>n
on tho contraband list. Never bejre
has it been placed even on the
onditional contraband list. This
ction by Great Britain, unprecedentd
as it was, emphasizes the importnce
of the vital question of the disribution
of cotton now and after the
ar is over. The shortage of the preent
crop, the extended uses and demand
for cotton, the prospect for still
jrther curtailment in production
ext year, due to the absence of potsh
and the almost prohibitive prices
f fertilizers, make it probable that
\creased prices for cotton should be
btained; and the increased demand,
Itli curtailment in production, emhasize
the necessity for greater
ire, more businesslike and sensible
lans, in the handling and marketing
f this national and international and
orld-neeeded commodity.
Along with the consideration of cotm,
goes hand-in-hand the question
f diversification, and of applying
dence to agriculture, the raising of
ittle and stock, for the production
f cotton will not be permanently protable
until our farmers learn to raise
t home all necessary food supplies,
he production of cotton, the markettg
and warehousing of cotton, with
iversification of crops and stock raistg,
are inter-related and must be
orked together. The practice of
aving cotton as our money crop
lust be abandoned.
This congress is peculiarly fortuate
in the person of its president.
>r Senator Fletcher, if he will paron
a personal reference to what is
of broad public Interest, is chairman
of the national commission on rural
credits. As such he, with the managing:
director of the Southern Commercial
congress, Dr. Owens, has
traveled on a tour of study, drawing
on the systems of Italy, Austria,
Germany, Switzerland and France,
for suggestions that would be valuable
to us. The results of these investigations
have been laid before the
preisident of the United States; and
President Woodrow Wilson, in his recent
address to the Federal congress,
gave token of his approval by urging
legislation of this kind at the present
session. It is but just to give credit
to the Southern Commercial congress
for initiating the movement The
commission of which Senator Fletcher
was chairman and Dr. Clarence J.
Owens was secretary, investigated the
question of agricultural finance, production,
distribution and organization
in sixteen foreign countries. The report
of this commission is the basis
of proposed legislation, state and Federal,
that is to provide for long-term
mortgage loans and also short-time
personal credits for the American far
iiici* uc uiuai pcucti a oj>oicui w
meet the needs of agriculture just as.
the Federal reserve act now meets
the needs of commercial transactions.
If such a system ran be made practical
and workable, it will mean the
regeneration of the rural life of the
south, and of America. It will provide
a plan by which the farmers can be
the owner of his home and farm. It
will furnish him the great object, the
purpose and ambition to improve the
conditions of life for himself and his
family, and will Inspire him with the
motive for Improvement, for education,
for the comfort and luxury of
home. We must have rural credits
providing for long-term mortgage
loans and short-time credits. This Is
an Insistent demand, and this demand
must be met If we are to realize the
fruition of the aims of those of us
who know the imperative need for
making rural life profitable and so attractive
that young men and women
will not be weaned away from country
life, but will be attracted to it It will
mean a new declaration of independence
In agricultural business and life.
In 1913, the Commercial congress
was addressed by the president of the
United States, and the opening of the
Panama Canal was the greatest event
to be emphasized at that time. The
United States, and South Carolina, and
Charleston particularly, were arranging
for a great official movement In
commerce, on account of the opening
of the canal. Our eyes were turned
in hungry desire for trade relations
with Latin-America and the Orient.
With the waterway completed, and
with a basis of exchange, it seemed
but a matter of a short time before
the United States would assert emphatically
its commercial supremacy.
The war in Europe has emphasized
the lack of transportation facilities
on the ocean. To remedy this, President
Wilson recommends to congress
the enactment of such legislation as
will give government-controlled merchant
marine. The outlook seems to
fovnr thn nnaan aa nf a ahi nninc hill.
under which our country will be in
position 10 seize commerlcal opportunities
In this the south will be vitally
Interested. We have witnessed abnormal
conditions in trade for the
past 3ighteen months. This country
has supplied belligerent countries, as
well as neutrals. The Federal reserve
act has supplied all possible needs in
finance. The balance of trade has been
tremendously strengthened and developed.
We must remember, however,
that we are preparing to meet,
not pnly conditions as they exist during
the war, but we must prepare for
conditions that will confront us after
this war is ended. It may be that those
great countries engaged in war will
not be able, for a long time, to rehabilitate
their lost prestige and commercial
power. They may not be in
position to buy from us as they have
done in the past. It may be necessary
for us to look after new markets and
to develop trade relations with LatinAmerica
and the Orient, but in any
event the United States must be
ready, on the one hand, to meet competition
with her former rivals In Europe;
or if the demands from Europe
are not open to us, we must be ready
to extend our markets In other directions.
Of one thing we may feel confident,
that if we take advantage of
the opportunities that are now open
to us, we may feel sure of the ultimate
commerlcal suprcmancy of the United
States, and in this prosperity must
share the southern states of America.
CITY OF HOPEWELL
a r% e.lJ wi a a ( XAt t_l II. J.
m uornneia l nai inn nmr nas m?uo
Into a Town of 27,000.
In the American Magazine for December
an article by Merle Crowell
describing the galvanic effect of the
powder industry on real estate values,
says:
"The next report of the department
of commerce will tell something of
the miracle; yet it can give only a
hint of the industrial magic that has
studded the eastern states with mighty
manufacturing plants since the nations
of Europe- developed military hydrophobia
only a little more than a year
ago. Many of these plants are new;
others are old ones grown together.
"War waved his red wand above a
hamlet at the Junction of the James
and Appomattox rivers and a city
sprang up overnight. Where forests
of pine and dogwood looked down on
rows of newly planted corn last
spring, the largest powder plant in the
world is standing today, and more
than 27,000 men swear by it and at it.
Already the buildings of the plant extend
over 167 acres. At City Point
there are 22,000 powder employes and
perhaps 5,000 other men, drawn there,
for the most part, by the desire to
divert a golden stream near its source;
for the semi-monthly pay roll of the
Du Pont powder works is more than
three quarters of a million dollars.
"Flanked on one side by City Point
village, the original settlement, and
on the other by Du Pont City, lies
Hopewell, the most remarkable municipal
prodigy ever produced east of
the Mississippi river. Bert Harte
would have gloried in Hopewell for a
mining camp in Doom tiays musi nu-vc
been very like it; true, It lacks the
mines, but when land worth $10 an
acre a few months ago is selling for
$16,000 a double building lot today,
why should one delve into the bowels
of the earth for further riches?"
? Laurens special of December 7 to
tho Greenville News: Nelson Wright,
an old negro shoemaker of this city,
who had the distinction of being the
original negro Democrat of Laurens
county, died yesterday In his little
cabin home on East Main street He
lived alone. Yesterday a white neighbor
called by the cottage and found
the old negro lying in front of the
lire place in an unconscious condition
and In a short time he expired. Nelse
claimed that he was over 100 years
old, but he probably was not over 90.
He was a native of Georgetown and
was the bodyguard of a Col. Alston,
grandson of Governor Alston, and
Nelse went out west with Col. Alston
during Indian uprisings in Utah and
other frontier sections at that time.
He spent several years in that section
of the country and then returned and
went to the front in 1861 with a
South Carolina company as a servant
After the war he located in Laurens,
having been owned by the Wright
family, living near the city, and engaged
in shoemaking. In the first
campaigns waged for the redemption
of the state from Radical rule, Nelse
identified himself with the white people
and voted with them in all the
succeeding elections. He was proud
of the distinction of being the first
negro Democrat in the county and he
continued to cast his ballot at all the
state and Federal elections, his vote
being the only one cast by a negro
at the last election held here last fall.
TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES
News Happenings in Neighboring
Communities.
CONDENSED FOR QUICK HEADING
Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of
Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster
and Chester.
Gaffney Ledger, December 10: Two
school Improvement associations, one
at Antiocn and the other at Wllklnsville,
nave recenuy been organized.
. ...Mra K. AdaJIne Ruppe died at
the home of Mr. a. D. Morton In the
Maud section bunday morning about
12:30 o'clock, bhe was taken seriously
111 with pneumonia on Wednesday
night and grew worse until the end
came. Mra Ruppe was Mrs. Horton's
grandmotner Eleven Cherokee
county schools will receive a total of
$l,usy.00 tor term extensions this
year. The schools and amount for
eacn follow: King's Creek, 1100.00;
Rock Springs, $100.00; Grassy Pond,
$100.00; sarratts, $100.00; Cowpens,
$100.00; Draytonvllle, $100.00; star
Farm, $100.00; Beaverdam, $100.00;
Ross Grove, $100.00; Robbs, $80.00,
and Butlers, $100.00 Work on
the Brown building on the corner of
Limestone and Robinson streets Is
being pushed forward r&pldly and the
prospects are now that the structure
will be completed early In next year.
It will have a frontage of 44 feet and
will be three stories. The first floor
will be occupied by H. M. Brown's
general merchandise store; the second
noor will be devoted to olficee, and
the third will be the Elk's home.
9 9 9
King's Mountain Hsrald, Deo. 9: The
J. B. Khyne Mercantile company, Incorporated,
went Into the hands of
a receiver Saturday. J. P. Weaver
was appointed receiver. This was done
at the Instruction of J. fiunyan Rhyne,
a creditor The southern
Venture company of King's Mountain,
with head otnce at Charlotte Is In process
ot dissolution. The company was
organized several months ago, for
the purpose of working the old Catawba
Gold Mine near Kings Mountain.
The promoters were unable to
sell sufficient stock to make the effort
a success Rev. J. R. Miller has
resigned as pasior of the First Baptist
cnurch of King's Mountain, to take
effect at the pleasure of the church.
The church has deferred action on
the resignation until next conference,
which comes Wednesday after the
fourth Sunday in this month.
Mr. Ira Dixon and Miss Mattle Blackburn
of Bethlehem section came over
to town Sunday November 28th, and
were married, Esquire G. W. Kendrlck
performing the ceremony
Mr. Sam Bell and Miss Virginia
Wright both of Oak Grove section
were married Sunday November 28th.
at the home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. Thompson Wright,
Rev. Mr. Blanton officiating.
m m
Rock Hill Record, Doe. 9s Rock
Hill Lodge No. Ill Tuesday night
elected the following officers for the
year: B. J. White, W. M.; 8. Reid
spencer, S. W.; John E. Gettys, J. W.;
V. B. McFadden, Treasurer; Hiram
H. White, Secretary; Brlce T, Dickson,
S. D.; D. L. McDonald, J. D.; J.
H. McMurray, Jr., Steward; D. B.
McFadden, steward; J. W. Westerlund,
tiler Captain H. Greene,
who has been in the Fennell Infirmary
for some time past for treatment, has
improved enough to be taken to the
home of his son, G. H. Greene, this
morning.
#
Chester Reporter, Dec. 9: Capt. W.
F. Sahms and family, who came .here
recently from Florence, to establish
a post of the Volunteers, of America,
say they are much pleased with Chester
and are succeeding nicely with
their work. Lieutenant James Shark
accompanied them, and is assisting
with the work. A marriage license
was issued to Mr. Ernest Montgomery
Gwin, of Blackstock, and Miss '
Bessie May Henson, of Rossville, yesterday
by Judge of Probate A. W.
Wise As the result of a Are that
occurred about 10:30 o'clock Tuesday
morning and burned briskly and
caused great excitement while it lasted
the small wooden warehouse of
the Chester Drug Co., located back
of the store, was badly damaged, and
much of the contents, including ice
cream making outfits, heavy drugs
oils, etc., destroyed. The loss will
amount to about 31,000 A marriage
of much Interest to their many
friends was that of Miss Helen Wix
and Mr. R. Audrey Alexander, which
was quietly solemnized Monday at
the home of the bride's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Wix, in WinstonSalem,
N. C.
?
Fort Mill Times, Dec. 9: The Rev.
W. H. Hafner, of the Fort Mill Presby/?Vinr/?h
annnnnoAri from his
pulpit Sunday morning that he had
not up to that time reached a decision
as to whether he would accept
the call given him recently to the
church at Gaffney. Mr. Hainer stated
that this call was the third he had had
from the Gaffney church since entering
the ministry Community
Day was observed by patrons and
friends of the Fort Mill graded school
Friday. A large crowd of both men
and women gathered at the school
building early in the morning and
labored untiringly throughout the day
in renovating the building and Improving
the school grounds
A serious accident occurred Monday
which almost resulted in some
fatalities when an automobile collided
with a wagon driven by Messrs. Ed
Bailes and S. P. Wilson. It appears
that the car was running in "low"
when the mishap took place but the
warning signal, by the driver, was
not given therefore allowing the above
gentlemen no time to pull to one side.
Neither party saw the other, due to a
large embankment and a steep hill,
until the automobile was driven under
one mule throwing It to the ground.
Beside a few bruises to this animal
no other damage was done .The
many friends of Hon. S. H. Epps, Sr.,
are glad to learn that he is considerably
better. Mr. Epps has been sick
for nearly a year.
Gastonia Gazette, Dec. 10: Mrs.
Eugenia Spurrier, only sister of Mrs.
W. E. Jenkins, of Gastonia, died at
her home in Mayworth, Wednesday
morning, following a long illness from
a complication of diseases. Funeral
services were conducted at the home
yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, by Rev.
J. D. Moose, and the body was taken
to Paw Creek for interment. Surviving
her husband, Mr. Jeff Spurrier,
and three children. The youngest
child, aged six months, died three
Mr T M Smith the
genial and efficient rural letter carrier
on route one from Clover, was in
town Wednesday for the first time
since he was injured in a runaway accident
eleven weeks ago. He is going
on crutches but his condition is improving
so rapidly that he expects to
be back on his job in a very short
time. Mr. Smith says there is quite a
difference in the appearance of things
at Clover since Judge Rice stopped
the North Carolinians from going
there for their mail order liquor. The
new condition of things is highly
pleasing to the Cloverites At the
country home of Mr. and Mrs. T. A.
McDonald on the Beatty's Ford road
near Charlotte, Wednesday afternoon
at 3.30 o'clock, their daughter, Miss
Laura Maye McDonald, was married to
Mr. Larkin Augustus Brandon, of the
Bethel section of York county, S. C.
The ceremony was performed in the
presence of a large number of relatives
and friends of the contracting
parties, by Rev. R. K. Timmons. pastor
of the Bethel Presbyterian church.
Mr. and Mrs. Brandon left soon after
the ceremony on a bridal trip to
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