Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 16, 1918, Image 1
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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER.
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Il< sl<i|>|j> il, ustonislxil at tlx- uu)
tin major took Ills .siiKKi'Stiuii. I low ui<1
Ih'Kxii to .slutI. i, |>uci'<l tlx- insult<>l
tin- i' til lor sonu- inoiiu-nls. iuult?-riiiK
to liimsill. aixl tlu-n swuntf touixl
iifton liis ht-cl, lacing tlx- lu-iju-nanl.
"tjootl (ioJ, no, \Vallat-t-! Whatevur
I>iit that internal idea into youi
head?" In- exploded "Si?- here, now.'
You're not well enough 1 talk this
Hung over tonight. Some day I'll tell
you why your pro|iosal is impossible."
"That's all very well, major. I don't
know what you mean, hut it you don't
like my proposition you know what
villi run do. I'm <|lllte well enough to
listen to what's worrying you. I rig it
out!"
"I haven't time, Wallace. There's
these stragglers to he sorted out. Not
that llll|c!l CUII he done tonight, I suppose.
Sometime I'll tell you--"
lie swung round on his heel and
made loi the iiitraiiee, stopped and
rcliiiin d.
"I suppose I'd hi Iter tell you now,"
In exelaiim d. 'I had thought it might
III as well not to tell you e\e|\ Yoll
don't happen to know who this child's
lathci was- thai man in tin tent V"
"What do you mean, uiajoi'.' Some
SI IIP I eailgllt by a Indict. I Sllp|H?Se."
Hampton!" said Maioi Howard,
gi imly.
I.iciilriiiiid Wallace sat holt upright
on the hid and stared at the otln r in
amazement.
"The man who sold oui mold ligation
plans to SliaiiT."' lie wliispend. coiiseiolis
III a sllddell terror loi the child.
The major nodded. "It's years
since we worked togethei iii the vvai
nlliee," he answered, "and. irankly, I
didn't know the lace. Von wouldn't
have would you, alter tin- work that
the hullet had done'.' One oi thosi
d d ilum-duuis. I tin- you didn't
sithis, did you'."'
He took a purse Irom Ins poeket.
opened it and shook out three gold
pieces into his hand. "That was on a
holt ahout tin' body," he said. "And
1Ii? m Were SOIIIC papers?not till.' oin s
we want<il. hut enough to identify
him. It was Hampton all right."
II. went lo llii' li nt door and looked
mil. "Ilore, Johnson!" In* rallnl.
Tl?i' iii'Kio servant ap|ieared almost
instantaneously within the opening
uini s*- ' ut attention.
' " ikllU^JfJU1 tUWlfrftt1 L!U\ti pteocn.
Johnson?" inquired Major Howard.
"Well, suh, 1 don't know as I'd object,"
replied the negro, grinning.
"It was |>art id' a sum that was paid
to an American soldier for l?tra.\lns
his country."
"oh. I.ord, no. major!" answered
Johnson.
"Then do what yon think l?est with
t llese."
The negro looked at the gold coins
in Ids hand, stepped outside the tent
and swung his arm. The pieces fell
in the jungle grass lai heyond the encampment.
Major Howard shied the
purse niter them and went hack to
where Wallace still sal upright on
the lied, lie noticed, with a certain
grimncss of spirit, that one of the lieutenant's
hands rested on the ehild's
fair hair.
"Well. Wallace?" lie asked.
"It's datnnalde."
"We can't exactly make ttiis child
tin1 regimental pel, can we?"
Wallaec was silent, tiud tin- major
sat down oil the edge of the lied lieside
him.
"I had orders to watch for iiitu." lie
said, 'lie was lo have lieen hanged
as soon as we captured Santiago.
That's win lie was making for tin
jllllgle. lie was detected nild allowed
to escape with his life, hut he hud
Im-i'ii working as a Spanish agent sitter
In' was ilniniini'il out of America. Ilicareer
ended at the luckiest moment
101 liiin. Ho seems to have liait tin
oiii' redeeming uiialitx of affection for
tlio child. though if In- liail hail a |>a.
I toll' of unsi jtlshitcss in liitu In- v. on hi
havo hit Iht hi'liiiul hint. I suppose
sin- was tin- only thing In* hail in his
Wl'ltl'lll'll lilo."
"Of t'ouiw there's no palliiition."
suggi-sliil Wallace. "lint the man
max havo been horn good anil?gone
ilow nhlll."
"Ili' was horn rot I on." answered the
major. "Ilo sold his country to pay
his gambling debts. 1'itha was about
tlio only place that would hold him. I
imagine. And to think that swine was
once in our regiment! Sorry I had to
tell >on. Wallace!"
lie hesitated a while; Wallace had
not moved: but the child at his side
stirred and breathed heavily. The
majot's lists clenched.
"I'm trying to bo just to the dead."
he said. "Hut I leel that a thousand
years of hell wouldn't atone for that
crime, Wallace."
Mark Wallace looked up. "I'm not
sure that I know all the facts about
the case, major." he said.
"The facts arc that it was no sudden
act of fear or temptation, hut
calculated, cold-blooded deliberation.
We knew at the war olticc that there
was a leakage. It had been traced to
the mobilization division, where Kel
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won1 under suspicion for a time. Then
it narrow oil down to Hampton and
another.
"Wallace, those months were the
worst time I've ever spent. Hampton
was m> I*cst friend, and Kellerman's.
too. We spied on him?had to.
"Well, you know what happened,
more or less. There was a woman goween,
as there generally is?a tinclookmtr
voting woman, little more than
a girl, named Hilda Morsheim. One
of French-Herman Alsatians.
Wallace. Kelleiman got some hold on
her, and she confessed. The case
against Hampton was absolutely
proven.
"There wasn't any trial. The fellowcould
have been shut up for a good
many years: he had cost his country
millions: he ought to have boon
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AMERICAN ARMY |
THE BATTLE- 1
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t. <?. ( liapman. i'
Hill
hanged. Hut he wan quietly cashiered
and allowed to disappear. Maybe it
was a l'oolish move, but we felt the
shame pu tty badly and wanted to forget
it. Hampton was let go, on the
understanding that he leave the country
forever. Oh. yes, he assumed the
innocent air quite dramatically. Some
of the war ottlce people believed in
him until the damaging documents
were laid before them
"And he was still somehow in
touch with things, Wallace, and the
leakages went on afterward. That's
w by we had orders to hang hitn us
soon as Santiago was taken. He did
the kindest thing he could have done
to himself when he got in the way
of that sniper's bullet.
"I'll tell you who the child's moth
< r was, Wallace, ih-cuusc 1 wn.i unfortunate
enough to know her. Sinwas
a .Miss Itennie, Miss Muijorie
Ibnnic, of a Baltimore family?limpeople,
ami. of course, with a tradition
like that, she believed in tlie
scoundrel absolutely. Site eatm- to
me twiee. The tirst time was before
Hit informal trial held by the department.
She begged me to believe
lie was innocent and the victim of a
trap. 1 wouldn't even listen. You
know, when a man has to run down
Ins friend lie has to harden his heart.
"She came to me again, after
Hampton was broken. She told me
I had played false to rny best friend
and that I'd suffer for it to the last
day of my life. I've never forgotten
that Interview, and yon can guess
how it made me mad to hang Hampton
w lit n we learned that he was
still keeping up the game from his
\ile in Cuba, lie must have got
unite a number of confidential papers
out of^the war office. That's
about ull."
"It's enough," said Wallace. "Tin
girl married him, then?"
"So much we learned. And also that
she died later. You see, we've been
pretty close on the fellow's track tinlast
couple of years?ever since the
war became a probability, in fact.
Most of the officers in the regiment
are since that time, I guess they
all knew something, and kept it unlet,
like you."
Wallace nodded. "I fancy there's a
good deal of feeling," he said.
' tiuite a good deal," said the major
.dryly.?-Aad-1- agw
with me that this makes it?let's say.
a little difficult to adopt his ehild offl
eiauy f
'Voii nit'nn the remeinhranee would
l>e too bitter?"
"I mean that that position is tlx
one and only itosltion that she is dis liialilied
front holding, by reason of
birth."
"Still," urged Wallace, "it isn't in
the blood. The mother was decent.
Why should that baby be tarnished
with her father's treachery?"
"It's written in the (iood Hook?"
be can the major.
"And there's something else about
coals of tire, too. major, which came
as a sort of revision of the old law.
It's Just what we ought to do. because
it's the only way to adjust the matter."
"Adjust It? Adjust what?" cried
the major, with sudden imssion.
"The whole of that hellish business,
major. The man was once an oflieer
of the Seventieth. He's dead and his
crimes have died with htm. We want
to forget that such a thing could have
happened, and the only way is to leave
him to <Sod's judgment and to cjtst
tuit till bitterness from our hearts.
You quoted Scripture to mi'?well. I
gave you the answer front the same
Hook. I<rt death bring oblivion to
the mail's memory. He's left us tne
' im. Start here. Start fresh. I have
the right to the kid. but what you
have told me makes me feel strongl*
that there's a Providence in this affair.
and 111 lend her to you?mark
that word, major!?on that condition
or none."
Major Howard pulled at his mustache
in agitation. "You don't really
mean it. Wallace?" he asked.
"I do. If you want me to let you
take her till the war's over?"
"It means forgiving that blackguard."
"It means forgetting 1dm and letting
the Judge judge."
"It goes against every instinct. I'd
bring her up away from the rogimental
life. Besides, there are the
others."
"Who else knows?"
' Well, of course, nobody else knows
who the dead man was. The colonel
will have to know. Hut he needn't
know we've adopted the child. He's
going south after the war. However.
I'm afraid Kellerman knows. He recognized
what was left of the face, or
suspected somehow. I could tell from
his manner."
"1 don't see any overwhelming difAcuity
in that. You can trust Kellerman
?"
The major nodded, and it occurred
to Wallace that he would rather trust
any of the officers than Kellerman.
He had conceived a prejudice against
him which he could not have explained.
"And Hampton's name was erased
from the old mess list." Wallace continued.
The major, who had been pulling at
his mustache and thinking deeply,
came to his decision.
"Well. I'll take her on those terms.
Wallace." he said. "The fellow was a
l?ait lot, but, as you nay, mere may
110 reason why this little animal
should suffer for his sins. The mother
was decent, and there may be
something in that Idea of a vicarious
restitution. I'll agree. Wallace, if
you'll let me take over the charge of
her till the war's ended. We'll enter
her on the mess book and settle a
fictitious parentage on her afterward,
and may she never know her father's
history. By the time she's old enough
to understand a mascot's duties, flirt
with the lieutenants and plead for the
drunks, maybe we'll have forgot ten it
ourselves. Goodnight, my boy. Take
tare of >our wound. I'll send in that
milk and biscuit and a couple of
cakes of naphtha soap, and a porcelain
tub with silver trimmings, foi
you to make a start on her in the
morning."
He glanced at the sleeping child,
took Mark's hand and went quickly
out of the tent. Under the sky he
..tood still for a few moments.
"The d d scoundrel!" he muttered.
At that instant his alert ear heard
what the sentry, posted some distant
away, had failed to catch?the rustling
of some moving figure in tiedense
jungle grass at the edge of the
camp.
The major remained perfectly motionless.
except for his right hand,
which was swiftly withdrawing his revolver
from its case. Suddenly he was
transformed Into action. He leaped
between the two last tents 01 tne line,
to see a man confront him for an instant.
In the light of the quartertnoon
the major could not distinguish
how the Intruder was dressed. It was
evident, however, that he had been
prowling outside the tent which held
Wallace and the child.
"Halt!" shouted the major and the '
sentry together and, as the man dropped
Into the grass, the rifle and revol- '
ver rang out simultaneously.
The sentry, shouting to the guard,
came running up. The major and h<
searched the spot, but they found no- i
body. I
"One of those d d Cuban sneak- I
thieves!" muttered Mjor Howard as .<
lie replaced his revolver in its case, i
And he hun-h-d away to look after his ,
men. i
(To He Continued.)
RENTING FARMS ON SHARES |
Contracts Fair to Tenant and Landlord
Officially Discussed.
In answer to numerous Inquiries
from both landlords and tenants, asking
for help in renting farms, the
Cnited States department of agriculture
has recently published Hulletin
6.10. "Lease Contracts I'sed In Renting
Farms on Shares," which is a
report of the study of contracts used '
in various types of farming In every
state in the union. In making this 1
study 2v"? representative types of *
contracts were examined, and 2,907 1
tenant farm survey records, Including 1
near Columbia, and the new industrial
school for wayward girls, C.over- '
nor Manning has appointed the following
board: B. G. Clary of Gaff- !
noy, for the one-year term; J. A. '
Mood of Sumter, for the two-year '
term: Dr. E. M. Matthews of Florence,
for the three-yehr term; \V. B. Wil- ]
bur of Charleston, for the four-year 1
term. Dr. A. T. Jamison of Green- <
wood, for the five-year term. The |
board held-a ifieeting in the governor's |
office last week for the purpose of or- 1
ganizing. <
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Sightseeing.?Resident ? Have ,.ou '
seen the sights of the town? 1
Stranger?Yes. All morning I sat In i
the hotel front window watching them <
walk by.?Life. - i
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Record of Current Happenings Collected
from Various Sources.
Iowa is the first state to fill if
luota of the third Liberty loan in tin
seventh Federal reserve district, il
was officially announced Friday.
Four thousand striking employee*
of the Savage Arms Company a!
L'tica. N". Y.. have agreed to return tc
work for one week to try out a new
wage scale. The Savage Company i!
making Lewis machine guns.
The National German Alliance al
its convention in Philadelphia. 1 -si
Thursday with thirteen states represented,
voted to disband the organ!
zatlon. Tho delegates also voted w
donate $30,000 of thf; alliance fundi
to the American Red Cross.
Grover Cleveland Alexander. plt< lui
nf the Chicago National league baseball
team, has been selected by tho
draft board of Howard ceunty, Nil'.,
as one of 12 of the county's quota <>i
drafted men to go to Camp Punston,
during the five days' beginning
April 26.
Thirty inches of snow covered the
tracks of the Norfolk & Western rail"
road at points in the Shenandoah valley
of Virginia. Friday. Traffic was
considerably impeded. The snowfall
ninged from 14 to 30 inches thick, according
to messages received at the
railroad headquarters at Roanoke.
British aviators Friday dropped
more than a ton of bombs on the
nem.v station at Luxemberg. In reporting
on aviation activities on tlie
battle front Wednesday, the official
statement on aerial operations sa<s
I hat eight enemy airplanes were acounted
for and that seven British
machines arc missing.
The sinking of British merchantmen
by mines or submarines reported
last week reached the next lowest
evel of any week since Germany heron
her Intensive submarine campaign
early in 191". Four vessels of
more than 1.600 tons, two of less than
1.60m tons and two fishing boats were
sent to the bottom.
The Order of the British Empire
las been conferred upon Mrs. M. N.
Vlton, the wife of a sheep farmer in
lie Falkland Islands. It was due to
icr vigilance as a coast watcher that
he German Admiral Von Spec's
iqiiadron was sighted and the news
ommunicated to Admiral Sturdce in
into for him to give battle to and
'ink the German warships.
Hecause certain employoes of the
Intel Astor plumed the keyhole of a
oom he had engaged bo that his key
vould not unlock the door, former Asemhlyman
Ix>u!s Cohen has brought
itiit against the hotel for 1100,000.
dr. Cohen declares his reputation sufercd
to that extent Inasmuch as sevral
friends were witnesses of his hu^
riTttatlon: ' ^
One hundred and thirty men, ar esled
last Thursday in a raid that
overed various sections of N'ew Tork
ity, pleaded guilty Friday before
ludge Hand in the United States disrict
court to selling liquor to sollicrs
and sailors in uniform. They
vere sentenced to from one day to
ight months in the prison.
Ten modern American-built locomoivos,
built for the Russian governnent,
are. running on the Frisco rall oad
on the southern division, between
den.phis and Birmingham. The Rusian
locomotives are powerful freightr.s
of 51,000 pounds tractive efforts.
The locomotives were not delivered to
tussia on account of the Bolshevik
iprising.
Cuba's sugar crop, now more than
talf harvested, will be the largest
single crop in the history of unv
ountry, according to a statement
nade by Claus A. Spreckles, presilent
of the Federal Sugar Refining
'ompr.ny. "Thus far 1,823,000 tons
lave been brought in," said he, "which
s 121.000 more than at this time last
ear. The Cuban government is sucessfully
combating enemy alien plots
o destroy the sugar crop by burning
ip the cane."
V- . u 1:(U?. ... Illo will
r?i.\ 4>uiiii * u-ruiiuu. iiuui uuuo ?
suffer for failure to observe food adninistration
rules and regulations, it
,vas announced last Friday. Charges
roilglit out at a hearing before the
Vorth Carolina Federal food admlnistrntor
in ilaleigh, were that the mills
xacted excessive prices for mill feeds,
:iiat some of them failed to extract
lour at a rate which would give 1U6
nunds for every 164 pounds of wheat,
ind that some of them had failed to
mbniit monthly reports to the food
id ministration.
A shell tired by the German long
angc cannon Thursday struck a
foundling asylum in the Rue de La
Ircche, in the Mont Rouge district on
[he southern outskirts of Paris, and
ihroe persons there were hilled and
: leven wounded. Within the hospital
I here were thirty women with new
iiorn bableo. One nurse, one patient
ind one baby were killed, while two
probationers, six women patients and
:hree infants were injured. Another
<hell struck an open air bowling alley
ind killed a man and a boy and
wounded ten ether persons.
President Wilson by proclamation
last Thursday took over four of the
I'rincipal coastwise steamship lines
rhtetly for utilization in moving troops
lo Kurope. The lines are the Clyde
steamship Company of Maine, the
Mallory line of Maine, the Merchants
ind Miners Transportation Company
>f Maryland, and the Southern Steamship
Company of Delaware. Wharves,
piers, ways and all other appurteninces
used by these companies will
likewise go under the control of the
government. The president put them
under authority of Wm. G. McAdO",
Jlrector general of railroads.
Government attorneys at Chicago,
.ai'aoIiiH I Via* IKa n*AQO/i|ltllin ol
the- 112 Indicted I. W. W. members
will be based partly on letters which
passed between officials of the organization
which proposed to change
the organization's name to the Knights
of the Stars and Stripes, and describe
the change as "patriotic camouflage."
rhe letters are also said to have proposed
emblazoning the I. W. W".
stationery with the American colors,
expecting In this way to gain immunity
from government interference
general und specified farming, were v
considered.
Under average conditions, the specl- I
nlists say, the share system is the most i
satisfactory. In the partnership \
formed hy this plan, tho landlord s
furnishes the land and the tenant the *
lalior. and it Is to their mutur.l inter- 3
csts that the farm be made more pro- f
ductivo and profitable. As a rule all <
equipment, ImTuSi^^ooIs, iilacIitnefyT 'r
work stock, productive stock, and
other work capital is owned in equal ,
partnership. All expenses, Including (
hired labor and taxes, arc shared ,
equally and the proceeds are dlvid- j
cd half and half. Products taken for (
family use by either landlord or ,
tenant are charged against the respec- x
live parties. In cases where the land- t
lord furnishes more than half of the
capital for stock or equipment, or (
where the land is naturally very productive,
he is entitled to receive more
than half of the proceeds, and a share ,
that is fair to both landlord and tenant ^
is agreed upon, tin the other hand,
where the tenant furnishes more than .
half of the capital, or the type of |
farming requires special skill or an (
unusual amount of labor, or the land
is not productive, he should receive
more than half of the profits.
In order to make the partnership
most successful the division of profits 1
should be fair to both parties. Any in- 1
justice tends to brlt.g about friction
between landlord and tenant, and
leads to a lack of interest and dis- '
agreements which prove unprofitable '
to both parties. The wording of the
lease, the specialists s:.y, is a compara- '
lively simple problem after the conditions
essential to fairness have been 1
a creed upon. Frankness Is also important.
and the contract should be >
prepared In a simple, specific, and 1
readily understanding form. 1
Most farm leases run for one year. 1
with the privilege of renewal at one
or two months' notice. Uusually the '
crop year, March 1 to March 1, is *
used The share system involves con- 1
sideralilo bookkeeping, but this is de- 1
sirablc on all ..farms and, in fact. I
most contracts specify that accounts '
be kept. Some farms are rented for !
a stipulated sum, the price ranging !
from $2 to ISO per acre, the average
price being from $4 to $10 In the i
north central states. A modified form I
if this system consists in paying a <
specified number of bushels of grain I
or bales of cotton, etc., in lieu of I
cash.?Weekly News Letter. <
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PALMETTO GLEANINGS. I
Happenings and Events cf Interest in |
South Carolina. I
In an opinion handed down Thurs- j
day, overruling the state's contention, j
the supreme court holds that J. M.
Graham has the right to sue the state
for alleged damages arising from the
abrogation of his contract when the '
old hosiery mill at the state peniten- '
tiary was abolished by the legislature. 1
I'nder the terms of the act of the
last legislature creating a board of
eorrectional administration for South
Carolina, and putting under its control
the white boys' reformatory at
doienee- the necro hovs' reformatory
and so be allowed to carry on their
propaganda unhindered.
WAS LOYAL AMERICAN
i
, No Evidence Against the German Who
t Was Lynched in Illinois.
A request that his body be wrapped
, in the American Hag formed the last
I words of Kohert H. Pragcr, hanged
, here by a mob early last Friday, acr
eording to testimony before' the cor(
oner's inquest by Joseph Riegel. it was
s:iid tonight by persons who were
present at the Inquiry which was held
' behind closed doors, says a dispatch
' of Wednesday from Colllnaville. 111.
Riegel, according to these persons.
' admitted he was a leader of the mob.
( I'rager was hoisted in the air by
1 boys from 12 to 16 years old, Riegel is
said to have testified. He is declared
to have said that Prager denied that
. he was a spy or that he had hoarded
. powder with the purpose of blowing
, up the Maryville mine. Riegel. it Is
' -"-aia, paid a irinuie 10 rrafci n ui?.?i
ry. declaring that the latter never
. shed a tear except when he kissed the
flag, and that he did not beg for
mercy.
Itiegel made a confession early today
to a St. Louis newspaper man, nnd
persons present at the fn<iuest nssert1
< <1 tonight that Itiegel had reiterated
' before the jury every detail mentioned
in his statement to the reporter.
According to Kiegel's alleged statement
to the newspaper man. he said
lie was in a Collinsville saloon at 10.15
o'clock Thursday night when a police
came in ami ordered the place closed,
i explaining that a disturbance was
feared.
"The mayor came out and made a
s|s-ech and tried to get us to go away,"
the confession said. "He declared the
man was gone. I asked whether he '
would allow a I'nited States army
man to go in nnd see. and I showed
him my army discharge papers.
'He told me to come on in. which I
did, and the crowd followed. If we
had found the man in tlie cell we
would not have bothered him, but it
made us angry to feel that the police
had sneaked him away. We went
outside, surrounded the place and decided
to look again.
"Another man and 1 went Into the
cellar and found I'rager hiding In a
idle of tiles. He came out and we
grabbed him and led him out."
Riegel said that en route to the
scene of the hanging several persons
were met In automobiles and I'rager
was forced to sing and kiss the flag
for them. At the tree members of the
mob questioned I'rager for twenty
minutes regarding his alleged prode
rmanlsm.
"We asked him if he was a German
spy and if he had tried to blow up the
Maryville mine, and why ho did not
keep his date ut Kdwardsvllle with
Mose Johnson. He dented ho was a
?*jy and that he hoarded powder."
li^r'TOr" ntrnr hon,jrfyrrjlg; .. .
"Somebody tied the trope around
I "ragers necn ana several uojs irum
12 to 16 yearn old pulled him up. His
hands were not tied and he grabbed
the rope. They let him down and we
said, 'Now are you going to tell whether
anybody Is mixed up with you?'
We told him we were going to kill him
if he didn't tell everything. * <
"He said his parents were living and
that he wanted to write to them. He
also said be had three partners, but
refused to tell their names.
"All the time the crowd kept getting
more excited and angry. Some one
shouted: 'Well, if he won't come in
with anything, string him up.' A boy
produced a handkerchief und his hands
were tied. I might have been the man
who did the tying. I wus drunk.
"Just as we were about to string
him up Prager said: 'All right, boys,
go ahead and kill me, but wrap me in
"Then they pulled the rope.
"He was the bravest man I ever saw.
He never shed a tear except when he
kissed the flag and did not once bog
for mercy."
The inquest was continued tonight
in an attempt to conclude it by tomorrow
night. No arrests will be
made until after the inquest, according
to \V. E. Trautinar.n, assistant attorney
general of Illinois.
Five Men Held.
Colllnsville, III., April II.?The coroner's
jury, which investigated the
lynching here last Friday of Robert
1*. Prager, alleged German sympathizer,
at the close of the inquest tonight
recommended that five men lie held,
charged with murder In connection
with the hanging.
The men ordered held are: Joseph
Riegel, Wesley Benver, Richard Dukes.
Jr., Enid Ellmore nnd William Brockmier.
After having been In deliberation
since 2:30 this afternoon the coroner's
jury tonight brought In a verdict that
Prager was "hanged by a mob" nnd
recommended thnt the men named be
held charged with Prager's murder.
Warrants Immediately were prepared
by Coroner Lowe.
Wesley Beaver, a saloon porter, was
the first man placed under arrest.
Heaver testified at the inquest, but
was reported to have denied he had
any part in the lynching save that he
carried a flag two blocks as Prager was
being marched to his death.
Such testimony as has been made
public has made but sygbt mention of
Dukes, Ellmore and Brockmicr. All are
1 miners. According to the statement by
1 Mayor Riegel, Dukes was in the crowd
that gathered at the city hall where
Pr-1 p-or wnfl hMHrrv
1 The Inquest opened last Monday and
all sessions have been Becret. It was
reported yesterday by persons who attended
the hearing that Riegel, one of
the men held, had confessed he was
leader of the mob which hanged Frai
ger.
? The United States senate has passed
the sedition bill prohibiting under
penalties of twenty years' imprisonment
and }20,000 fine, language or
' acts of disloyalty or obstruction of the
army draft or Liberty loan. Though
modified to meet the objections of senators
who claimed the original draft
would curb legitimate freedom of
, speech, the bill retains the broad Inhibition
of words or acts which "support
' or favor the cause of the German em.
i plre or its allies?or oppose the cause
of the United States." It also would
punish wilful and "disloyal, profane,
scurrilous, contemptuous or abusive"
language about-the American form of
, government, "constitution, military or
naval forces, flag or uniform," and'
willful utterances designated to curtail i
! production of esssntisl war materials. {
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GREATEST AIRSHIP BUILDER
American Hakes Good Id Great
Britain.
ATTAINS FAME FROM OBSCURITY.
Commenced His Career Upward Without
Help?Says the Future Possibilities
of the Airship are Without
Limit and that it May be that Some
Day the Traveler will eat Breakfast
in London and Dinner in New York.
With ulI Its cases of meteoric rises
from poverty and humbleness to
wealth and success, the United States
lurnisncs nuiiitUK mure aumiug uuu
that of J. A. Whitehead, president of '
the Whitehead Co., though a Britisher '
now. has American citizenship papers
and grot his business training in San 1
Francisco. '
Unknown two years ago, Mr. White- 1
head now is one of the most promi- '
nent men in Great Britain and in its :
industrial i*fe is easily one of the '
most shining figures. He started his '
career two years and a half ago with
no asset * in the world" except credit '
with a small hotel-keeper In a Lon- '
don suburb. Now he owns the biggest
airplane factory in Great Britain and I
has under his ownership 45 acres of 1
factory buildings and airdomes. His :
tirst payroll was $35 a week, with 1
borrowed money. His payroll now is 1
$6ort,00tt a week. He recently ob- 1
tained permission from the treasury '
department of England to increase his t
capitalization by $5,000,000 and so '
complete was the confidence of English
investors in his ability to "make
good" that the amount was subscrib- ?
I'd before the bonds were issued.
i
Sentenced to be Shot. ,
At the outbreak of the war Mr. (
Whitehead, then on the sunny side of ,
40, was in Sun Francisco, Just getling
on his feet after u rather adventurous
exj>erienee which had taken
him to all parts of the world find
in a way gave him the reputation, as
he now humorously says, of a
"black sheep." The turning point in
his career had como at Monte Carlo a
some years before. He received fi- t
nuncial aid which enabled him to j
shift his course in life and take a turn r
lor the better.
As soon as war was declared, al- jj
though he had become an American h
citizen, he enlisted in a British regi- f
ihent and came to England. He was n
at the battle of Antwerp, and there, v
after watching the work of enemy I
airplanes, reached the conclusion that
airplanes would decide the war soon- t
cr or later. v
To get out of the army was not an s
easy task. He did it by insubordina- o
tion and, when sentenced to be shot, n
produced his American citizenship 1;
WflfCf. .and nsJd IMt hr didn't think.r
the authorities would kill him. They b
didn't. They paid very little atten- li
tion to his claim that he had commit- t
tod a breach of discipline for the sole 1
purpose of devoting his fciients in a v
more effective way to the service of
his country. He was sent back home c
with a black mark against him, tilled "
with chagrin, but glowing with con- s
tidcnce that he could manufacture v
airplanes on a big sc ale, and be a fac- a
tor in the determination of the world 1
struggle.
He had not a cent. Ho had no v
friends who could help. His parents *
quite naturally, turned a deaf ear to ^
bis overtures for aid. His first step 1
was to go to the war office and, as 11
he laughingly says, with true Amerl- v
cun optimism, asked for an order to a
~-i a ?r h
>iilid airplanes, vt rien usm-u h hv
had u factory he replied that he had.
Then he went out to look for one. so
that the government authorities could
verify his statement.
Out in a London suburb, where he
had a hotel man for an acquaintance,
he found an old machine shop in
which were a few lathes and some
benches. He inspected it as well as he
eould through the windows, borrowed
a pot of paint and a brush and ladder
and began to paint his name on
the front of the building. He had
fairly well done when a man came
along and said:
"What ure you doing there?"
-,I am painting my name on this
building."
"And what are you doing that for?
That's my building."
"Oh, is that so? Then you are Just
the man I want to see."
Mr. Whitehead took the owner of
the building to the aforementioned 1
hotel and bought luncheon for him.
He told him of his airplane dream,
and Vaughan Thompson?Tor that
was the name of the owner?was
impresed by it. He said:
"It sounds very good to me. If it
will help win the war I am for it. I
am going to the front tomorrow, and
you can take the building and do
what you want to with it And I
have ?200 cash, and as I don't expect s
ever to come back you can take that,
too. and use it the best way you can.
It will be at your disposal in a month"
Mr. Thompson went away. He was '
killed, as he predicted. Just a year 1
from that day.
i
Contract for Six Flyers. j
Mr. Whitehead, being a skilled me- I
chanic, put the old machinery in the I
Thompson property in the best con- ]
Uition he could, made a few purchases '
on credit and went to the air department
with this proposal; <
"You may send your Inspector to I
my machine shop any time you wish. I I
should like a contract to build six air- I
planes, and they will be as good as I
any other maker In the country can
give you." I
They gave him a contract for the i
six. An inspector reported that his i
factory was of sufficient capacity for I
a trifling order of that kind, and |
thereupon the 450 acre Whitehead I
Company began Its career. i
On the strength of his order for six, I
government machines Mr. Whitehead
was able to make such purchases as
he needed for his small undertaking. ,
He also borrowed $35 to pay two ]
mechanics who helped him the first
week. Prom that the Industry grew. I
He surmounted obstacles that would i
have awed almost any one, and did i
things which astonished the cleverest <
business men of England. But he <
achieved-results. He finished his six i
machines in far less than the specltied
time, and then he got a contract
for 10?.
The works grew also. He built a
great ulrdome facing a held of hundreds
of acres and to the amazement
of government officials who thought
his field was no use as a training
station, because of the fact that a river
flowed through it, he buried the
river. He diverted a stream so that
it is not now to be seen on his property.
That lunch which he gave tho other
day marked the end of the second
year of active full operation. There
is no telling where it will end.
"I learned a great dcrl," said Mr.
Whitehead, "during my experience in
America. I am sure I have because
of the fact that I have been able to
do many things which might other
ivise appalled me. I am sometimes
astonished when I pause to think of
the good fortune that has come to
me. and I hope that there Is some
truth in the statement made by
speakers at a recent function namely
that I have some capacity 'or accomplishing
things.
- "Airplanes will be the eye-opener
jf the world in the near future, as
hey are today the 'eyes of the army.'
There is no one who would dare to
predict what the future will be. The
nan who would have said 15 years
igo that airplanes would tly around
vith all the agility and, I may sayhe
security of a gull, would have
icon mentally unbalanced. Ho would
ic a brave man indeed who today
vould attempt to give a picture of the
ilrplune 10 years from now.
"Having breakfast in London and
litiner in New York?counting of
-nurse, of the six hours with the sun
?will be no more unusual In our life
inie than it is now to leavo New
fork on the Twentieth Century
limited and 20 hours later bo In
'liicugo, 1.000 miles away."
WHAT ONE MAN DID
irought About Prohibition in the Russian
Empire.
Michael Demltrovitch Tschellslu-ff is
.striking example of what wonderful
hings a single man with a gnat purlose,
without any of the advantages of
ank or fortune can accomplish.
This man who is really the father ot
(inhibition in Russia, is a peasant by
>irth, and was a houscpainter by proesslon
when he became mayor of Sahara.
He Is now a millionaire, and
me of the most lntluential men in
tussia.
How he picked up an education'Is
old In his own words by an American
k-rlter: "1 was reared in a small Itusian
village. Thete were no schools
r hospitals, or any of the improvenents
we are accustomed to in civilzed
communities. I picked up an edualiotufrom
old newspapers and strap,
looks. One day I chanced upon n
>ook In the hands of a moujlk, which
rented of the hamtfulncss of nlcohol.
t stated among other things that
odka was a poison."
Just sis he tr?t his education?by
onstant effort and hard work?this
lan raised himself from peasant to
tatesnian, and since his rise has demoted
himself to the uplift of the |k-:isnt
class in Hussln, esiieeinlly through
he suppression of vodka.
iteiore nis election 10 mo mnjoran.v,
fhon TscnelshefT was an alderman in
Samara, a drunken man, in one of the
louses owned l>y him, killed his wife,
""his made such an impression upon
lint that he registered a vow that he
rould make a supreme effort to strike
i death blow to the greatest enemy of
lis people.
loiter he was elected to the duina on
he anti-vodak platform. He got a bill
>asscd by this body to the efTect that
very bottle of vodka should bear a
>oison label. After the bill passed the
luina it went to the imperial council,
t was there tabled. But TschelishelT
vas not beaten. He secured an audiince
with the czar, and told him what
odka was doing to Russia and her
.eople. After listening attentively the
zar referred him to his minister of
inance. This man said the measure
o prohibit the sale of vodka was a
langerous innovation depriving the
jovernment of one billion rubles.
500,000,000) yearly revenue, with no
nethod of replacing it. The czar did
lot rest satisfied with this, but visited
he country around Moscow, and saw
or himself the terrible havoc vodka
vas making among his people. He
hen dismissed his minister of finance
ind appointed E. M. Bark in his place.
Then followed the war. At the very
>eglnnlng, the mobilization of the army
irought home to the grand duke the
nemory of the terrible disorganization
lue to drunkenness in 1904, and he orlered
the prohibition of all alcoholic
Irinks except in certain high class
dubs and restaurants. This was not
inough for TschlishefT. He kept on
vorklng until he gained his object and
irohibition in Russia was made univerial.?New
Science Magazine.
Service Flag for Bond Buyers.?
Kach purchaser of a bond In the third
Liberty loan campaign, which starts
April 6. will have his name Inscribed
>n the honor roll of the community
n which he lives and will be allowed
lo display an "Honor Flag," accordng
to an announcement made by the
Liberty loan committee of the New
fork Federal Reserve district.
The "Honor Flag" will be similar in
lesign to the service flag, with a
uroad red border surrounding u white
Held, and on the field three vertical
Idue bars, signifying the third Liberty
loan.
Moreover, the idea will bo extended
to cities and towns, so that communities
exceeding their quotas will be permitted
to fly an "Honor Flag," adding
to the bars a blue star for each 100
per cent oversubscribed. The awarding
of the first municipal flag will be
made an Important event, at which it
Is expected Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo will unfurl the banner.
Expressing the belief that "every
American will subscribe to the limit of
tils ability," directors of the campaign
will not place on the Individual "honor
Hags" any mark Indicating the amount
lubscribed and in the case of the municipal
honor rolls, which will be posted
in city and town halls and published
in . newspapers or circulars, the
ame policy will prevail.
WEALTH FOR THE SOUTH
t
Tremendous Significance of Great Nitrate
Plant.
The air nitrate plant to bo built
at the Muscle Shoals In Alabama
. will he the largest plant of its kind
, In the world. Nothing on earth will
touch it for size or output. Ger,
many, with all her boasted progress
in the fixation of nitrogen, has nothing
that will equal in Immensity the
government air nitrate plant at the
, Muscle Shoals.
President Wilson has signed the
bill which ?.alls for the expenditure
of $60,000,000 in this vast and won
derful undertaking. This is beyond
the greatest dreams of those who
had hot>cs of seeing the gigantic
waterpower of the Tennessee river
harnessed for the fixation of nitrogen.
The fondest hopes held a few
months ago were that the government
would spend $20,000,000 in
this propect. After untiring work
this bill was finally passed. But
that was before this country entered
the war. Now, within a few
weeks' time, a bill Is passed by congress
and signed by the president
calling for the expenditure of 160,"O0,u00
in this collossal project.
limit concrete dams will be
thrown across the Tennessee river
at the Muscle Shoals, backing up
millions of tons of water for miles
and obtaining more than 500,000
horsepower. No such horsepower
Is possible anywhere else la America
except ut Nlagr.-. Falls.
The air nitrate plant will make
us absolutely independent of Chilean
nitrates, either for ammunition
or fertilizer. rne new pian win
furnish ell the nitrates needed for
our navy and our armies and supply
millions of tons to the farmers of
America.
Not only that, but with Immense
deposits of phosphute rock a little
further north in the Tennessee valley.
there will be produced ammonium
phosphate without limit.
What all this means to southern
farmers can not now be realized. It
means that with cheap fertilizers in
unlimited quantities (the potash excepted
t they can in many cases almost
double the yields of their land.
We folks do not know what real fertilizing
means as much fertilizing
as we have done. We have not yet
dared to think of 1,000 und 1,500
pounds to the acre?and maybe even
more.
The Muscle Shoals project Is not
only the greatest commercial enterprnist
ever undertaken in Alabama,
but is the biggest thing that has ever
been started In the entire south.
There is no enterprise in the south
equal to it either in also and none
anywhere equul to It In importance.
It dwarfs our coal mines and our
shtrpards?and wwy ethse Ind?tsyi - As
a wealth producer for the
south its possibilities are fairly staggering.
It will increase by tens of millions
and by hundreds of millions of
bushels the south's annual crop production
and it will increase the cot
it'll jiviu.i mutually. i iir utuovra
Shoals Is the most wonderful fairy tale
come Irue that the south has ever
heard. Atlanta Sunday American.
VITAL ISSUES SUMMARIZE 0
Political Platform that ic Sound in
Every Plank.
The Tribune Is making an honest
effort to rise above local and personal
prejudices In the coming campaign.
Our country Is going through a
fiery ordeal, and Is entitled to the
whole hearted support of every patriotic
citizen.
Its success will depend on creating
wholesome public sentiment. We
doubt If there is a paper in South
Carolina with greater power tn moulding
the thoughts of the lubor and furiner
element. It is the only "Poor
Man's" daily in the state. Our weekly
has a constantly increasing circulation.
and thousands who refuse to
iwiy for the Tribune borrow and read
it.
We have been persecuted and our
faults and shortcomings mugnified so
as to prejudice the public.
Our enemies have failed, because
on the great, vital Issues we are right.
We do not intend during this campaign
to attack the private life of ou>
man or to inject personality into the
issue. If we arc attacked?then that
is another story, and the fur will fly.
We are sup|?orting Woodrow Wilson
with all of our power.
We think the most Important issue
before the people is the election of a
governor and legtsluture who will
give the state an economical and businesslike
administration.
There is wastefulness in the expenditure
of the public funds. Taxes
have increased 33 1-3 in four years,
and there is no corresponding increase
In public efficiency. The (Jreenvillc
Piedmont has been publishing a
series of articles, "Cuss-Odes." which
have analyzed every Item of the last
appropriation hill. They must l?e written
by some mem iter of the general
assembly who is disgusted with the
situation. If every taxpayer could
read these "Cuss-Odes," It would
surely be "Iteformatlon or Revolution."
Then, too, the state warehouse
should be put on Arm ground with a
central bank, to handle agricultural
paper. Htate insurance is an Incident,
occasioned by the exactions of
the trust The rates on all property
have been greatly Increased since the
repeal of the Laney-Odom act They
say on account of the war. If thla
ia ao. then why ahould the rates in
South Carolina be advanced 33 1-3
higher on country property than
they are in North Carolina?
Why doea not Governor Manning
sign the State Insurance bill passed
at the last session of the general assembly?
Is it because he sold out as McLaurin
charged at the May convention
In 1916 ?
Ia It because he is director In an
insurance company?
Is it because he Is more Interested
In "big business," than the interests
of the massee?
McLaurin began this fight He is
devoted to the industrial development
and identified with no political
faction. For this reason we began
months ago to advocate him for
governor. It is fast assuming the
proportion of a tidal wave. These
selfish Interests, see this, and dread a
man who knows banking, finance and
insurance, and at the same time is
fearless and independent Now they
are trying to side track him into the
senatorial race. They will fail. Mc
Laurin will run for governor and carry
to perfection the dream of bit life,
the perfection of a plan that will
make land, cotton crop mortgage*
and rent notes, aa good assets to
borrow money on as stocks and bonds.
As he says "why not, all values are
based primarily on land and its products?"
The Tribune is going to support
these principles and the man at merf**
who are their best exponents.
It is going to let the minnows alone
for a while and chase whales.?Anderson
Tribune.
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