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_ ISSUED SEMI-WttEKLT. l m. oaisT's sons, Pabiiifaera ^atnilp Jleurspapcr: Jcor the promotion of the political, Social. ^(jrieoltiiral and (f ommerciat interests of the people, single corr. pipe cents. BSTABMSIIKM 1855. " Y^I^. C.I'MDA^JAN'UARY 11. N'?- 4 THEY TRj By WILLIAM M i ?#!?;. i i?ht. 1!?17. lly William M< "II.M'TKIt XXV In th# Blizzard. Mvifltt.itu " 1'i-ti, th<* driver >>f lh? jitaif** lifiwi'i ii Kausiak ami Kat-j ma. <it?l not like the lobks or the sk> as his ponies breasted the long uphill elllnb tha' ended at the pass It was his liUl.it to grumble. M<- had he-en complaining ever since tiny had j started liut as he studied the heavy | billows of cloud hanked above the peaks and in tin- saddle between, there was real anxiety in his red, upoplctic f.-,. e "'Jlttin' h.-r back lip for a blizzard, looks like. Doggone It. if that would not Jest > < my luck," he murmured fretfully. Sheb.-I hoped there would he one, not. of course, a really, truly blizzard ich as Macdonald had told her uout. hut tin- tail of a make-bclicvc one. enough to send her flowing with exhilaration Into the roundhouse with a happv sense of an adventure achieved. The girl hail got out to relieve tlii* liorses. and as her young, lissom body took the hill scattering Hakes of snow w? re already Hying Today she was buoyed up by a sense of freedom. For a turn*, at least, she was escaping Maidonald's driving energy, tin- appeal of Cordon Kl I lot's warm friendliness, and the unvoii i ?l urging of Diane. (loud old I'etcr and the kiddies were tin- j only ouch that let her alone. She looked |?aek at the horses laboring ii|? the hill. Swiftwatcr had got down and was urging them for^fcvaid. his long Vkhip crackling about ^flrhe ears of the leaders, lie waddled as he walked His fat legs were too short for the round barrel body. A big roll of fat bulged out over the collar of bis shirt. Whenever he was oxcitcil?and he always was on the least excuse?he puffed and snorted and grew alarmingly purple. J re." he exploded as soon ithln hearing. "Snow in i?tons of it. H'm* And ; We're m for an honestaril, sure as you're a foot - was worried. He would ? turn and run for it. iiut 1 house was twenty-se\eti If the blizzard came rn the slope they would L time pf it reaching safeQroaalDg wqs on .-the othle divide, only nine miles away. They would have to worry through somehow. Probably those angry clouds wore half a bluff The temperature was dropping rapIdly. Already snow fell fast in lug i thick flukes. To make it worse, the! wind was beginning to rise. It came in shrill gusts momentarily increasing , In force. The stage-driver knew the signs of cold and cursed the luck that had ] led htm to bring the stage. It was and the driver's llgure. The bitter cold seurched through Shcba's furs to her soft tlesh and the blast of powdered ice beat upon her The snow was getting deeper ^Aa the road rilled. Once or'tw lee she tumbled and tell. Her strength ebbed. and the hinges of her knees gave unexpectedly beneath her. How long was It, she asked herself, that Macdonald had said men could live In a bllisard? Staggering blindly forward. Sheba bumped Into the driver. He had drawn up to give the horses a moment's rest before sending them plunging at the snow again. * ?- - - ? i?? "iNO cnanve. ne ruucu imv mv i young woman's oar. "Never make Smith's in the world. Goin' try for miner's cabin up gulch little way." The team stuck in the drifts, fought through, nnd was blocked again ton yards beyond. A dozen times the horses gave up. answered the sting of the whip by diving ahead rtret at the white banks and wore stooped by fresh snow-combs. Pete gave up the flgnt. Ho began r- oniiitching the horses, while Sheba ' and Mrs. Olson, clinging to each oth^ er's hands, stumbled forward to Join htm. The words he shouted across 1 the back of a horse were almost lost > in the roar of the shrieking wind. ? *.. heluvatime ....ride.. ..gulch." Sheba made out. Be flung Mrs. Olson astride one of ft^kfce wheelers and helped Sheba to the ^^jack of the right leader. Swiftwater clambered upon its mate himself. iT1?e girl paid no attention to where v they were going. The urge of life wan <> faint within her that she did ggt greatly care whether she lived or gut Her face was blue from the UKON ML j IcLEOD RAINE. l<*Od I ?>* It:**. her vitality was sapped. She I seemed to herst-lf to have turned to | li e below the hips. Outside the 1111s- I ry nt tin- moment her whole attention was concentrated on sticking to ih?- hack of the horse. Numb though her lingers were, she must keep them fastened tightly In the frozen mane of Uo- animal. She recited her lesson I to herself like a child. She must stick j on she must?she must. Whether she lost consciousness or not, Sheba never knew. The next she realized was that Swiftwater Pete was nulling her from the horse. He draggel her into a cabin where Mrs. Olson lay crouched on the floor. "Hot to stable the horses." he explained, and left them. After a time he came back and lit a tire in the sheet-iron stove. As the circulation that meant life flooded back into her chilled veins. Sheba endured u half-hour of excruciating pain. She had to clench her teeth to keep hack the groans that came from her throat, to walk the floor and nurse her tortured hands with lingers III like plight. The cabin was empty of fumitun except for a home-made table, rough stools, and the frame of a bed. The last occupant had left a little tirewood beside the stove, enough to last perhaps for twenty-four hours. Sheba did not need to be told that if the blizzard lasted long enough, they would starve to death. In the handbag left in the stage were a box of candy and an Irish plum pudding. She had brought the latter from the old country with her and was taking it and the chocolates to the Husted children. Hut Just now the stage was as far from them as Drogheda. lake many rough frontiersmen, Swiftwater Pete was a diamond In the raw. He had the kindly, gentle instincts that go to the making of a good man. So far as could be he made a hopeless and impossible situation comfortable. His judgment told htm that they were caught in a trap from which there was no escape, but for the sake of the women he put a to nave won mo ium iri|> ?un ?u?1 until spring. His dogs were waiting j for hltn at Katma for the return | Journey. Ho did not hlanio himself. , for thoro was no reason to expect such a storm so early In the season. None the loss, It was too bad that his lead doc had boon ailing when ho loft the gold camp eight days before. j Miss O'Neill know that Swiftwator Pete was anxious, and though she, was not yet' afraid, the girl under-! stood the reason for It. The road ran through the heart of a vast snow- j field, the surface of which was being j swept by a screaming wind. The air j was full of sifted white dust, and the ^ road furrow was rapidly tilling. Soon 1 It would be obliterated. ' '.e.idy th< ! horses were panting ana struggling, ? fnrvvitrd Sht'ki ?U) Mirj ^IVMO??v? .v. - tramped behind the stage-driver and In her trucks walked Mrs. Olson, tinother passenger. Through the mullled scream of the storm Swlftwuter shouted back to Sheba: "You wanta keep close to me." She nodded her head. His order needed n. explanation. The world I was narrowing to a lane whose walls i he could almost touch with her I Angers. A pull of white wrapped them. Upon them beat a wind of tinging sleet. Nothing could be seen but the blurred outlines of the stage so bitter that she soon gave up the attempt to fight her way through the drifts and turned back to the cabin. Sometime later Swiftwater Pete came stumbling into their temporary home. He was fagged to exhaustion but triumphant. Upon the tabic he dropped from the crook of his numbed I arm two packages. "The makings for a Christmas dinner," he said with a grin. After he had tak?n off his mukluks and his froxen socks they wrapped him in their furs while he toasted before the stove. Mrs. Olson thawed out the pudding and the chocolates in the oven and made a kind of mush out of some oats Pete had saved from the horse feed. They ate their one-sided meal In high spirits. The freeze had saved their lives. If it held clear till to-morrow they could reach Smith's Crossing on the crust of the snow. Swiftwater broke up the chairs for fuel and demolished the legs of the table, after which he lay down before the stove and fell at once Into a sodden sleep. cheerful face on things. "Lucky we found this cabin," he growled amiably. "By this time we'd a' been up Salt Creek if we hadn't. Se< itig as our luck has stood up so far, I reckon we'll be all right. Mighty kind of Mr. Last Tenant to Tehve us this firewood. Comes lb a showdown we've got one table, four stools and a bed that will make flrstelass fuel. We ain't so worse off." "If we only had some food," Mrs. Oslon suggested. "Food!" Pete looked at her in assumed surprise. "Huh! What about all that live stock I got in the stable? I've heard tell, ma'am that broncho tenderloin is a favorite dish with them there French chiefs that do the cooking. They kinder trim it up so's It's 'most as good as frawgs' legs. Sheba had never before slept on bare boards with a sealskin coat for a sleeping-bag. Hut she was very tired ami dropped oft almost instantly. Twice she woke during the night, disturbed by the stiffness and the pain of Iter body. It seemed to her that the hard, whipsuwed planks were pushing through the soft flesh to the bones. She was cold, too, and crept close to the stout Swedish woman lying beside her. Presently she fell asleep again to the sound of the blizzard howling outside. When she wakened for the third time It was morning. In the afternoon the blizzard died ......... * " o" ena Qhnha looked out upon a waste of snow. Her eyes turned from the desolation without to the bare and cheerless room In which they had found shelter. In spite of herself a little shiver ran down the spine of the girl. Had she come Into this Arctic solitude to And her tomb? Resolutely she brushed the gloomy thought from her mind and began to chat with Mrs. Olson. In a corner of the cabin Sheba had found a torn and disreputable copy of "Vanity Fair." The covers and the first forty pages were gone. A splash of what appeared to be tobacco Juice defiled the last sheet. Rut the fortunes of Becky and Amelia had served to make her forget during the morning that she was hungry and likely to be much hungrier before amother day had passed. As soon as the atorm had moderated enough to let him go out with safety, Swlftwater Pete had taken one of the horses for an attempt at trallbreaking. "Me, I'm after that plum pudding. I gotta get a feed of oats from the stage for my bronchs too. The scenery here is sure fine, but It ain't what you would call nourishing. Huh! Watch our smoke when me and old Baldface git to bucking them drifts." He had been gone two hours and the early dusk was already descending over the white waste when Sheba ventured out to see what had become of the stage-driver. But the cold was Presently Mrs. Olson lay down on the bed and began to snore regularly. Sheba could not sleep. The boards tired her bones and she was cold. Sometimes she slipped Into cat naps that were full of bad dreams. She thought she was walking on the snowcomb of a precipice and that Colby Mardonald pushed her from her precarious footing and laughed at her as she slid swiftly toward the gulf below. Whi n she waked with a start It was to lind that the fire had died down. She was shivering from lack of cover. Quietly the girl replenished the fire and lay down again. When she wakened with a start it ! was morning. A faint light sifted through the single window of the shack. Sheba whispered to the older woman that she was going out for a little walk. I "He careful, dearie," advised Mrs. Olson. "I wouldn't try to go too far." Sheba smiled to herself at the warning. It was not likely that she would go far enough to get lost with all these millions of tons of snow piled up around her in every direction. She had come out because she was restless and was tired of the dingy and uncomfortable room. Without any definite intentions, she naturally followed the trail that Swiftwater had broken the day before. N?> wind stirred and the sky was clear. Hut it was very cold. The sun would not be up for half an hour. As she worked her way down the gulch Sheba wondered whether the news of their loss had reached Kuslak. Were search parties out already to rescue them? Colby Macdonald had gone out into the blizzard years ago to save her father. Perhaps he might have been out all night trying to save her father's daughter. Peter would go, of course.?and Cordon Elliot. The work in the mines would stop and men would volunteer by scores. That was one fine thing about the North. It resI>onded to the unwritten law that a man must risk his own life to save others. Hut if the wires had come down In the storm Kusiak would not know they had not got through to Smith's Crossing. Swiftwater Pete spoke cheerfully about mushing to the roadhousc. But Sheba knew the snow would not bear the horses. They would have to walk, and it was not at all certain that Mrs. Olson could do so long a walk with the thermometer at forty or fifty below zero. From a little knoll Sheba looked down upon the top of the stage three hundred yards below her, and while "hi. afnrwt there the nromise of the new day was blazoned on the sky. It came with amazing beauty of green and primrose and amethyst, while the stars ilickered out and the heavens took on the blue of sunrise. In a crotch between two peaks a faint golden glow heralded the sun. A circle of lovely rose-pink flushed the horizon. She ka had this much of the poet in "fTPT.'trtatTVerJ' suitVTs^Tras still cle. She drew a deep, slow breath of adoration and turned away. As she did so her eyes dilated and her body grew rigid. Arrows the snow waste a man was coming. He was moving toward the cabin and must cross the trench close to her. The heart of the girl stopped, then beat wildly to make up the lost stroke. He had come through the blizzard to save her. At that very Instant, as if the stage had been set for It, the wonderful Alaska sun pushed up into the crotch of the peaks and poured its radiance over the Arctic waste. The pink glow swept in a tide of delicate color over the snow and transmuted it to millions of sparkling diamonds. The Great Magician's wand had recreated the world Instantaneously. ?To He Continued.) GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Record of Current Happenings Collected From Various Sources. Pour persons, three of them children were killed by leaking gas fumes in Philadelphia last Sunday. John D. Rockefeller has contributed another J5.500.000 to the Rockefeller foundation, to be used more especially for war relief. Citizens of Nome, Alaska, have filed charges against Federal Judge Wm. S. Holchoinier, in which it is asserted that the Judge is pro-German. A New York grand Jury has indicted seven officers of the Dairymen's League of New York state, charging them with unlawfully raising the price of milk. A movement is under way in sections of Pennsylvania to have the government close 500 saloons in the coal fields in order to speed up coal production. Director General McAdoo has promulgated orders providing heavy charges for unnecessary delay in unloading railway cars. The penalty after the eighth day is J10 per day. The American steamer, Harry Luchenbach Is reported to have been sunk in the English channel by a torpedo a few days ago. Eight of the crew are missing. The government has taken over the big race track at Laurel. Md. It Is to 1 ? - ?-. t*,latoilnn Tho ne ueeu ub u. iiuiuiub ....... government offered to buy the property. The owner refused to sell, then the government took It anyway. Because of lack of cars in which to ship coal. Governor Cox says that many Ohio coal miners are facing starvation. They only work when they can get the cars to ship the coal that they mine. Prohibitionists of Virginia will make a flght before the present session of the legislature for ratification of the prohibition amendment to the Federal constitution and also to wipe out Virginia's quart-a-month law. The borough government of Sellersville. Pa., has lifted the ban on pig pens In the town limits for the period of the war. in order to give everybody an opportunity to help the food situation. A bill providing for compulsory conservation?possibly a system of enforced rationing?is being prepared for presentation to congress. Wheatless days and meatleaso days as well as other regulations for food conservation, are to be provided for in the proposed bill. TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES . e ? News Happenings in Neighboring? Communities. r . C CONDENSED EOt QUICK READINIi ? Dealing Mainly With Local Affair* of t Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaaton, Che*- { ter and Lancaster. :i Gastonia Gazette, Jan. 7: Gaston- a ian.s will be interested to know that y Otto Hupp :md his wife, Germans, ? | are held In the Norfolk, Va., Jail f I without bail pending further investi- t gution as to the origin of the destructive lire of last Tuesday which j, did property damage to the extent of t J:.'.000,000 or more. Hupp. It will be s recalled, formerly operated a meat ? market here. About a year ugo he t. left, going to Richmond. He was here 1( a year or more. Of a very belligcr- j ent disposition, Hupp and his wife tj were both involved in numerous small j, ditliculties while here. They were g strong Germans and talked bitterly, t] while here, against the I'nited States M government lor supplying the Allies K with munitions and foodstuffs. Gas- r tonians will watch with interest the v progress of the cases against Hupp j, and his wife .All the cotton r mills which closed last Friday at noon ? because the electric power was cut t| off resumed operations this morning, j The rain yesterday together with the i molting snows will no doubt increase t] th<* water supply to such an extent p that the Southern Power Company will not be forced to close down again soon. ? * * * J Chester Reporter, Jan. 7: Eddie p Patterson, a colored boy about four- t. teen years of age. was shot and in- ( stantly killed Friday morning, the tragedy occuring on lands owned by j .Mr. S. A. Rodman near Rodman. Sam ^ Caldwell, cousin of the dead boy, who ^ was along, claims that Patterson was ( shot by a white or yellow man. who met the two boys, as they were on .( their way to their rabbit gum. C'ald- .. well says that this man. who was a stranger to him, cursed the dead boy, ,, 1< who replied in kind, w hereupon the; () stranger killed him. The theory of a ( great many is that the boys, who lived together, had slipped out the gun, that an accident occurred, and that the survivor frightened by what oc- b curred, slipped the gun back in its s place at home and put out the story ^ of the shooting related above Of ,t much interest to a large circle of ( friends was the wedding of Miss Sarah Ella Henry and Mr. Albert M. t Simpson, which was solemnized Fri- ^ day afternoon at the home of the j bride's parents. Hon. and Mrs. J. K. y Henry, on Hinton street. The ceremony was performed by Rev. D. G. g pv'.IUps. II T1, porter rtt tliii '.i Ih thif church and was witnessed by the relatives ana a numuer 01 me ciose f friends of the contractirg couple Hubert Halsey, colored, was arrested ,j here Saturday by order of the Local . Exemption Board for failure to regis- j_ ter. Halsey claims to have regis- j. tered in Hlehmond. Va. Married 0 Thursday, January 3rd. 1918, Miss ,, Ada MeKeown, of Blackstoek, and j, Mr. William Matthews, of York conn- H< ty, at the M. K. parsonage in Black- : j, stock. Rev. S. B. White oillciating. I y Rock Hill Record, Jan. 7: The local ;S public schools opened again this morning after the holiday, extended a few days to save fuel Rev. H. E. " GritHn of Spartanburg has been ap- | u pointed to the pastorate of the Park |, and Manchester Methodist churches, 1 in place of Rev. Elzie Myers, who left (s Saturday to take the pastorate at |n Hickory Grove. Miss Mary Frew, j daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Frew i \\ of this city, was married to Lieut. Ernest Samsson of the Three Hun- a dred and Seventy-first infantry, U. S. ^ A., Saturday at 5 p. m., the Rev. I. P. McGhce, pastor of the St. John's ** Methodist church officiating. Rela- w tives and a few close friends witnessed the ceremony Miss Clara n Cherry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. 0 R. Cherry of this city, was married in '' charlotte last Thursday afternoon by t Rev. H. M. Pressly to John D. Kluttz, at the home of the groom's % parents. Mr. Kluttz is chief clerk in 0 the Charlotte offices of the Southern. 0 , r . a SOUNDS LIKE PROPHECY r C Study of Speech by John L. McLaurin in 191i o Anderson Farmers' Tribune. On January 18th, 1912. John L. a Mchaurtn, then a private citizen living quietly at his home in Benettsville, was requested to deliver an ad- 4 dress in the state senate hall on the d warehouse bill. Mr. McLaurln hud c just returned from the governors' k conference in New Orleans, where the warehouse plan under state management had been formally recommended. At the request of the Marlborough delegation he had prepared V a bill which had been introduced into the house by Representative McQueen t< and in the senate by Senator Jno. B. ? Green, who died shortly afterward and was succeeded by Mr. McLaurin t! himself as senator from Marlborough. w As this was the first public exposl- b tion of the warehouse Idea, we have " carefully studied this speech. There are some remarkable utterances In it. considering what has since yans- n pired. We make a few extracts: n Cotton. tl "To secure a fair price, the mark- 1< eting must be gradual; wc must have ? some resource by which the surplus ? can be withdrawn from the channels of trade, maintaining at all times ? the equilibrium between production b and consumption. P i wuuiu noi comena mai we vi should attempt arbitrarily to flx H prices. I do not want cotton so high S as to check consumption, nor yet so low as not to yield a fair profit on v the Investment. It la now about 7 1-2 cents and It should be 15 cents ii compared to other products." k Continuing, Mr. McLaurln discuss- P ed property rights: c " N'o law can equalize mental or t physical faculties, accidental or In- C herlted differences, nor safety legls- * late away the national laws of com- 1< merceu "We are taught, however, that II governments are Instituted for the d encfit of the governed. Under the onstitution the protection of proprty is insistent as the protection f life and liberty. If the protection f property is not made to mean omething more than mere physical ossession. If'it does not protect the itizen in the use of that property, nd the full opportunity to EMPLOY HAT PROPERTY WITH PROFIT. HEN OUR' WHOLE SCHEME OF ., o v if T?VT y j ? pd t rn tvn r' % i * i.-> n r i\.\ i u n*? 1/ ll*MBI"<?. It trusts fix the price of 11 1 ?>uy. If these combinations mount to CONSPIRACIES IX REIT ft AI NT OF TRADE, It is the duty f tin' government to protect me in a air return in the use of my propery. "What chunce without stute aid, ave the unorganized COTTON IROWKRS scattered over thirteen tates. mi a contest with expert tiuncial strategy backed by unlimited upitul. It is not only the province, t is the duty of the government, to o for the people (in mass.) what hey arc unable to do for themselves adividually. I am only asking the tate to help the farmers to help hcmselvcs. If you will pass this rarehouse law and validate with the reat seal of South Carolina, these eceipts. It will impart an artificial alue to every acre of cotton land, ecause its products will then be a ecognized collateral in the money jurkets of the world. It will make he south rich beyond our wildest ream. 1 ant not asking for money, only want to capitalize a portion of he sovereignty of the state for the enotit of our most numerous class ml only MONEY CROP. "Already a hireling press is crying ut socialism. I say, NO, it is only L'STICE. Another says it is pa irnalisni. I say, then make your hoice. Shall it be PATERNALISM >lt POVERTY?" In discussing the trusts, Mr. Mc.aurin actually foreshadows the riee-tixing now being done by the ederal authorities, and says the rusts have educated the people up d it. It is the same idea expressed 0 years ago in Bellahy's book looking forward." Trusts have existed from the <*irl;st time and will exist until the awn of the millenium, which after II will be one BIG TRUST of the ind defined under the Sherman act s BENEFICIEXT INTENTIONS, "here is lots of rot taught in text ooks on political economy. They ay "competition is the life of trade." 'hat is proven by actual test to be fallacy. CONSOLIDATION*. NOT OllPETllION IS THE LIFE OF 'It AIDE. THE SHERMAN ACT 'avnot and never will be IN FORCED. the courts are 'OWEltLl.SS. Wipe out trusts and ou increase the cost of iroduction no lover efficiency. They had a hentaw, la GrqnrcLjinil r"^^^^hform cd a great trust 1 Egypt, on no other capital excm i i; old coat, he left in the hands f Potiphar's wife, god almighy has given us a nature iade trust in cotton proDUCTION. give me the pow:it, and we will use our trust for urselves and our children instead of fall street and Liverpool. It is not iws nor lack of money thj^l is enlaving the south, it is lack of vision, t is ignorance that binds our limbs with shackles tronger than tempered teel. "Look about you; the present adlinistralion is serious'y considering LAW REGULATING THE PRICE IF ALL TRUST-MADE ARTICLES, 'hey are either bound to do this or o increase the wages of labor that tore money will be ^eft for labor and s products. I say that this will be one or that revolution of some kind 'ill engulf the entire world. Talk bout Socialism with cotton at seven ents and labor barely able to exist, am satisfied GO per cent of the white eople of this state are Socialists lthout knowing it "The present day SOCIALIST Is lerely a protest against the existing rdcr of things. Do you know that i this state. MEN' NO LONGER GO O THE POLLS AND VOTE THEIR OXVICTIOXS, but to register their otes AGAINST ONE MAN. Public fhcials in this state are the product f a PROTEST VOTE, and as long s they are, PUBLIC POLITICS will eprcsent the destructive, not the CONSTRUCTION forces of society. "Poverty Is the PRIMARY CAUSE f FACTIONALISM. Give me this iw, and we will wipe out poverty nd with it FACTIONAL STRIFE." Social Evolution. At the close of his speech, Mr. lcLaurin shows that in his mind is imly prefigured the world catalasm that is now convulsing man ina. *10 says: "A mighty revolutionary force is now soliciting MAN'S co-operation in his own uplifting." The unceasing brooding over y'RONG, has ever, in the past, been he tremendous lever, which from age 3 age, has lifted mankind from one poch into another. We utterly misread the signs of he times, if there is not at hand a orld crisis, which will wreck and ury this generation with much that : holds sacred and dear. Twenty centuries of Christian clvization still finds human greed and lilitarism its corner stones. The ext stop may be backward until hrough terror, blood and death, we ?arn that the Justice of God is still mnipotent In the universe which He reated. Go into the gray silence of those ar eastern lands and read the lesson n the dismal wreckage of proud em ires. Where is Persia, Egypt and ireece?' Mighty nations vanishing ike sunset shadows and fruitful fields Iven over to graves. "For the spider hath woven her reb in the banqueting halls of kings, nd the owl keepetb her night watch a the towers of Aprastib." There i not a problem in finance nor diplomacy anywhere in this world which an not be solved without bloodshed, iy wise statesmanship, justice and Christian charity. To say otherrise is to saolT at the divine benovoence which rules this universe. We wish/ (very voter In South Carotna cotilu rend this greet speech grasp of the situation, the boldness j and clearness with which the present | .s discussed and the future diagnosed, J reveals a power that should be of j use to this country in its time of need. No man should lead a people in these troublous times who cannot reason from cause to effect. Note particularly what Mr. McLaurin said about a PROTEST VOTE. Is the folly to be repeated next summer? Manning and Ed Smith are the products of PROTEST, N??T CONVICTION*. STEVENSON AND THE FARMS I . ? 1 Congressman from tne r-ixtn upnoias Farm Loan. When the proposition for the government purchase of lloO.uuti.OOU farm loan bonds tame up for consideration in the house last week, it met with vigorous opposition at the hands of representatives of mortgage companies who do not like the idea of having their 8 per cent loans fall off with loans bearing a lower rate of interest. in the course of his argument against the appropriation. Representative Campbell of Kansas, said that not a single one of his farmer constituents had asked him to support the appropriation: and he read the following extract from a letter in opposition: "The farmers are not asking this appropriation of $100,000,000 to buy furm-loan bonds. It is a device of the Federal harm Loan Board to help get themselves out of their embarrassing financial ditliculty. The farmers throughout the country never were in a more prosperous and better financial condition than now. All kinds of farm products sell at high prices, farm lands are in demand and selling at increased prices, the legitimate wants of the farmer are being taken care of now and will be in the future as they have been in the past, without borrowing from the United States government." Congressman Stevenson of the Fifth District of South Carolina, a member of the committee on bunking and cur reney, spoke in favor of the appropriation as follows: Mr. Stevenson. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Campbell! closed his remarks by reading a statement from somebody who does not seem to have been a farmer, stating that the farmers were not asking for this and did not need it. The farmers are asking to the extent of IliiO.OOO.OuO for loans with which to relieve themselves from encumbrances that they can not relieve themselves of otherwise, unless, as his correspondent suggests, they sell their farms; and when they sell their farms the correspondent says that the farm lands are bringing a good price; therefore when he attempts to continue to farm by buying another he wants to buy put up so high that he is squeezed out of the farming business; and now they are asking that loans be provided in order that they may have funds with which to liquidate these debts und enable them to go on. This statement of his corres pondent that the rarmeru are in u good and prosperous condition is partly true, but aa to the section of the , United States from which I come, it is just beginning to recover from the enormous loss, which congress said it could not help them to avoid, brought about by this war, when in 1914 they marketed the crop of cotton at a loss of 1480,000,000, and many a iarm was mortgaged as a result, and they have not hud a prosperous time sufficient to rehabiliate themselves. They made 16,u0u,00o bales of cotton in 1914, and it cost the average farmer at least 12 cents a pound to make it?$60 to the bale?and the people got, on an average, $30 for it. They have never recovered, and they are today facing demands from England and elsewhere, from the mortgage companies, that they liquidate their mortgages, and they have got to do it in this way or not at all. Now, are these bonds safe? If they are not, who is responsible? This congress enacted this act, and in the 27th sectibn it provided the Fedoral reserve banks should have the right to buy and deal in them. Well, If they are not a safe security, why allow the great financial Institutions handling the commercial credits of this country to deal in them as assets on which our currency should be based. Not only that but L it just that we should do something for them, and is it propitious now? We have got to do one of two things, to allow these farm-loan bonds put upon the market in competition with the United States loans that are being made and asked for for the purpose of helping until this war is over?we have got either to do that or we have got to take it out of the treasury of the United States; and I say we should not put the Farm Loan Board In competition with the treasury of the United States, and the president this morning in this apt language expressed exactly the principle that should govern us now when he said; "No borrowing should run athwart the borrowing of the Federal treasury." vMr. Piatt. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. Stevenson. I will. Mr. Piatt How Is this $100,000,000 going to be raised If we do not borrow It on the credit of the United States? Mr. Stevenson: We borrow it on the credit of the United States, along with the billions that we are borrowing to loan to France, England, and other countries. We hear no protest against that. We hear no protest when we And that the government is preparing to loan money to keep the railroads running; and I submit that If we are going to loan money to the railroads to keep them running, it is high time we began to take care of the man who produces that which we move upon the railroads and which Is absolutely necessary to maintain the railroads, the people, and the army at the front. Mr. Piatt Will the gentleman yield again? Mr. Stevenson. Tea Mr. Piatt Does the gentleman agree to have the government seise the farms and ran them for the benefit of the people as It has the railroads? Mr. Stevenson. The government has not found that neoceseary because the farmers have shown their capacity, tf given proper credit sad given the proper facilities, to run their farms so as to support this great government; and they responded last year in a way that has far exceeded the ability of the railroads or anybody else to demonstrate their patriotism in this country. Mr. Moore of Pennsylvania. Could not the railroads do that. too. if they had that much credit from the government? Mr. Stevenson. They have had much more man me tarmcrs nave had. They have had their credit in the money center of Xew York, and when in 1907 we had a panic, preceded by speculation in securities in Xew York, the farmers of the south paid for It in the prices of their cotton, and the money that we had in Xew York we could not get, for the treasury of the United States put J 100.000,000 there in order to maintain the values of the stocks of the railroads and of the bonds of the greut corporations. (Applause.) Why. Mr. Chairman, coming to that, I was president of a hunk at that time. We had money in Xew York, and could not get it. I had a neighbor who had $100,000 on deposit in a bank in Xew York, and it took him three weeks to get $10,000 of it. and we were having cotton forced on the murket and were taking certitlcates of indebtedness for it. If it comes down to a question of aiding the farmers as a speciul class, 1 want 'o call your attention to one othei thing. The great commercial centers, such as Xew York, have had their heart and center In the Federal reserve banks. What have we done? There has been on deposit in those banks by the government not less than $50,000,000, practically, ever since they huve been established, upon which tney uo Dusmess every uay in me year. Not only that, but we paused last spring here a bill amending the provision for Federal reserves, so as to require 7 per cent of all deposits of all banks of the reserve system to be maintained in those banks, and that meant on the average deposits last year $568,000,000 of reserves, put there for the Federal reserve banks to do business upor And yet they say that the Federal tarm-loan banks can not have a credit of $100,000,000 from the government in this way, when it is absolutely secured, which it Is given the right to control until the loan is paid off: and it is presumed to be secure, becuuse the very basis of these bonds Is the land of the farmers of this country, and land is the basis and the foundation stone of all credit, and everything that maintains credit is grown for the support of this country, of its armies, and of its institutions, and upon its shoulders rests the conclusion and successful termination of this war. Any they arc doing their duty and -trsihg-timr^BMt -eiwwuCoru to pOtiav the means with which to prevent the people from starvation. It would be a tardy act of justice not to give them at least an opportunity to look in on the treasury of the United States and feel that Uncle Sam Is a father to the farmer as well as to the other interests of this country. (Applause.) CLOVER CULLINGS Correspondence The Yorkvll'* F.nqulrrr Clover, January 9.?Clover has a sufficiency of coal for immediate needs if economically used. One car of coal was received here this week and W. P. Smith scys he has two more cars that should arrive within me nexi rew nays. wnen mis comes in Clover will be pretty well flx^ * .< co far us domestic coal Is ned. The churches of Cloved nave united in taking up the work of raising funds for the relief of the Armenians and Syrian war sufferers, and in the way that Clover usually does things of this nature, the matter is being handled in a thotough and systematic manner. Each church has appointed a committeeman as a member of a central committee, and this committee has in turn appointed sub-committees from their respective churches and on Sunday afternoon it is proposed to canvass the town and community in the effort to raise a liberal contribution as Clover's part toward the relief. The Sunday school of the local Presbyterian church last Sunday made a contribution of }55 for this purpose. In his report of vital statistics for King's Mountain township for the month of December, Dr. J. E. Prison, registrar, reports six deaths and 15 births. The deaths Included two whites and four blacks, and the births, eleven whites and four blacks. Though the cotton ginning season J is about over the management of the Clover Oil mill ginnery estimates that there arc yet from 125 to 150 bales of cotton that will come to the local ginnery. Up to today the oil mill has ginned 1,878 bales of cotton. Messrs. Macon and James SifTord and Mack Knox left Tuesday afternoon to resume their studies at the South Carolina Universltyj^iafter spending the holidays at their home here. A business change of some interest I here took place on January 1st, when Mr. T. W. McElwee sold his Interest in the Arm of McElwee A Parrott to his partner, Mr. D. M. Parrott, who will continue the businesa The police of Cleveland, Ohio, believe that Frank B. Smith, a wealthy automobile dealer, of that city, has been kidnapped and is being held for | ransom. Smith disappeared Thursday of last week. The biggest snow storm on record hit Ohicago on Sunday. The streets were filled with snow drifts seven to ten feet deep. Scores of automobiles were abandoned on the streets. Railroad and street car traffic was paralysed. Eighty-eight coal miners in the New River fields on the Norfolk and Western railway in Virginia, are closed on account of the lack of motive power. A generator of the Appalachain Power Co., was recently destroyed by fire. In Minnesota a special war body has l been organised, known as the MlaneIsota Motor Reserve. Its several hundred members, all automobile owners, are pledged to furnish their ears with drivers to transport representatives lof the government who require such service. UP IN AN AIRPLANE York Couoly Boy Tells of First Experience. WONDERFUL, DELIGHTFUL SENSATIONS In a Letter to Hie Mother, Henry Suggs Gives Graphic Account of Just How It Feels to Ascend Miles In the Air. and Also He Paints an Interesting Picture of the Earth Below. This description of an aeroplane flight it taken trout a letter thrt Lieutenant Henry L. Suss* ha, written to hit mother, Mr,. G. L. Sucs?. of Rock HIIL Lieutenant Sustt it a I lemton graduate md former ttar member of the football team. He it now in the Ubtervrra* tchool at Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill. Oklahoma, preparing himtelf for the aviation unite in France. The letter it remarkably well written, and The Enquirer it fortunate in being able to reproduce iU This afternoon 1 hud my first flight in an aeroplane, and it surpassed anything 1 ever did in the line of sport, far and away. It was glorious, thrilling. satisfying. Our sect ion inarched to the airdotne in No. T hangar to prepare for the first trip up, with many and varied emotions. Most ol' us were whistling or singing, probably for the same reason that a small boy whistles on a dark street at night. I think 110 man can go into the air for the first time without having that feeling of all good football players just before the kiekoff, or the same sensations in the fdt of the stomach that u eraek runner has before the pistol shot starting a championship race. It is physical, so much so as a headache and can he traced by experts to the nerves; but why it should show forth in the pit of the stomach is something every sportsman would liku to have explained. I can't remember when 1 lirst felt it. but I rfeinember how 1 used to feel while warming up for the Cleinson-C'arolinu football game. 1 was just as sure that we would beat Carolina as I was sure that we would ail come down again; but m both cases the sum* old feeling was there, and felt rather reassuring, like the presence ol an old frieiul. We spent a lime tunc arounu me airdomc while the mechanicians started the motors to popping and got the machines tuned tor Might. At o'clock, after bundling up in a fur-lined teddybear suit, leather coat, helmet and goggles. I went out to where No. 3t?3 was sitting, with the motor idling and the propeller lazily turning, and climbed into the observer's seat, just ahead of the pilot and right between the two wings. A small, sloping, semi-cowl of inica on the forward edge of the cockpit served to keep the wind off, if one uid not get too curious and stretch up over the top. "I'll take it easy with you," said the pilot, "and won't do anything that might give you a scare." "Go to it," 1 told him, for 1 felt like I might just as well get it all at once and hooked the safety belt that held me to the seat. lie gave her a little gas and we headed out toward the middle of the field. Then into the wind, more gas and we were bumping gently over the ground at about sixty miles per hour, t suppose, with the wind from the pro'gy/aw aaa jmk r * mighty noise. Tne ball had been kicked off and I was having the time of my life. I kept behind my diminutive wind shield; but Mnally peered over the side to watch the speeding ground; suddenly the bumping ceased and we were in the air, climbing fast, as the ground dropped rapidly away. Up we went for a mile straight away and then a wide turn and we were back over the hangar again. We circled the Meld twice and the altimeter registered 3,000 feet, about three-quarters of a mile up. VV'i> u',>rr> hist Pontine around UD there and going higher all the time. The ground began to take on the appearance of a great map. and the regular lines of tents at Camp Doniphan began to show up like a checker board. The thermometer on the ground registered about twenty degrees, but the air up there was colder, und moving awful fast. 5,000 Feet Up. We climbed to 5,000 feet, then we straightened out flat. I leaned out and looked down. The wind seemed to have the consistency of thick paste, out 1 was bound to sec what the world looked like, und 1 saw. We were over the town of Lawton. The air was clear and the details that 1 could see astonished me. I turned to look at the pilot. He was hanging one arm over inc side und apparently paying no attention whatever to the ship. 1 thought if that man has a girl in Lawton. I wish he would take some other lime to give her a signal. But we were riding as smoothly as a Packard with an occasional little bob Just like a small wave hitting an eighteen-foot sail boat. It was rather cold at 5,000 feet, but ortmi w>. huimn tn rllmh nirtiln and that altimeter held my eyes like a magnet nolus steel, as 1 watched it creep steadily up until 8,500 feet was reached?nearly two miles up. To my astonishment It was warm up there, and there we stayed for forty minutes. We started on a big circle and the whole country spread out beneath us? Law ton, the railroads, military camps, and ail appeared at a glance, while the beautiful Lake Lawtouku at the foot of Mt. Scott, reflected the blue of the sky. appearing as a wonderful sapphire set in a rich brown. The roar of the engine became absorbed and seemed a part of the thing, when all of a sudden it stopped. Not knowing what had happened, I turned and looked at the pilot. He was grinning and told me we were going to take a dip. I yelled all right, and braced my feet. Turning the engine on he shot her straight nose up until the motor stalled, and 1 was sitting on my back. She began slipping down, tail flnrt, but the engine being heavier, naturally wanted to go down flrst and before I knew what had happened, from sitting on my back looking at the sky. 1 was looking over the nose of the ship at the ground which seemed to be rushing up to meet us. Magnify the sensation of an express elevator a thousand times and put the whole thing out of doors, unattached and nearly two miles up in the air, and it will give you an Idea of that dip. I felt as steady in my seat as when we were running level, and there was no sensation of falling forward out of the machine. If I had pulled loose and Jumped out, the ship would probably have left me behind. It was then that the earth began to do strange things First, it stood on edge, then turned around once on an axis directly beneath us. He had thrown her into a 90 degree bank and I was sitting on my side, I tncn had spinalled, but it seemed to me that the earth was doing the turning and not us. I could feel the planes gradually begin to flatten out and we were sailing serenely straight away again at 6.000 feet. 3,500 feet down in the twinkling of an eye and all the time a feeling of complete safety. I turned and grinned at Johnston and tried to say "fine," but by the time I said it, we were four blocks past the worda the way the wind picked the thoughts from my lips. We climbed rapidly to 1,000 feet again, circled back and came down, engine off. with a long, easy glide, lighting on the field as lightly as a gull takes water. > I realty have not told you about the ride. I can't I know how It was," but It beats me to tell it right Hope this will gtve you an Inkling, however, of the general characteristics. I Henry L Sogga.