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THE VOICE OF HHttNTY President Wilson Gives Expression ti it li England ( EP8EH MAKING SPEECH AT SOILS HALL * Ad Mankind Now Becoming United In i the Determination That Right and 1 Justice Shall Be Established In the World, and That the Weak Shall No Longer Be Preyed Upon by the Strong. '' President and Mrs. Wilson have met with a moat rousing reception throughout Bo gland. The people of all classes have shown their fullest appreciation of what America has done and of what America proposes to do. The president has been the guest of honor at the moat notable state banquet that the British government has ever given, and it la generally agreed that the Britiah nation, as represented In the banqueting halls and on the outside, has never before shown greater honor and higher appreciation of any guests. Here la the president's spe?ch as de- ' livered at the banquet of the Low1 Mayorof London In Guild Hall, last I ^urdayT^-^. "Mr, Lord Mayor: 'We have come unon times when ceremonies like this | have & new significance which .most ft impress me as I stand here. The ad> dress which I have Just heard is most generously and graciously conceived, and the delightful accent of sincerity in it seems like a part of that voice of counsel which is now everywhere lo be heard. I feel that a distinguished honor has been conferred upon me by this reception, and i beg to assure I I you, sir, and your associates, of my very profound appreciation, but I i know that i am only a part of what I may call a great body of clrcuxnstancee. c "I do not believe that it was fancy on my part that I heard in the voice of welcome uttered in the streets of this great city and in the streets of J Paris something more than a personal welcome. It seems to me that I heard the voice of one people speaking to another people and it was a voice in . which one could distinguish a singular combination of emotions. There was surely the deep, gratefulness that the flchting was. over. There was. the pride that the fighting had had such a culmination. There was that sort of gratitude that the nations engaged had produced such men as the soldiers of Great Britain and the United States and of France and of Italy* jL men whose prowess and achievements * - they had witnessed with rising admiration as they moved from culmination to culmination, w* Business Not Yet Oone. "But there was something more in u wvota niwn nthora tn H699 liUbi Jb UWW 4 WW? Uj^vu v?mv ? - see that those lives were not lost in saiifc t ? ' "leave not yet been to the actual Is battlefields, but I have been with 8 many of the men who have fought the battles, and the other day I had X the pleasure of being present at a ses."mf. slon of the French academy when ?r they admitted Marshal Joff re to their membership. The sturdy, serene sol>? dier stood and uttered, not the words *\i of triumph, but the simple words of affection for his soldiers and the congF viction which he summed up in a sen4 T nrill nnt tnf oppiiritplv lento wimu a itm uv? .. j , P to quote, but reproduce in ita spirit J l<Lwas that Prance must always remember that the small and the weak could never live free in the world un- ' lees the strong and the great always > put their power and their strength in the service of right . . "That is the after thought* the thought that something must be done now; not only to make the just tf settlements* that, of course* but to see that the settlements remalned and were observed and that honor and justice prevail in the world. . And as I have conversed with the sol ?dlera I have been more and more aware that they fought tor something that not all of them recognized the ? moment you stated it to them. They fought to do away w'tta an old Order - and to establish a new one and the center and characteristic of the old <$ order was that unstable thing which we used to call the 'balance of power,' a thing which the balance was determined by the sword which was thrown in on the one side or the other, a balance which was determined by the unstable jealous watchfulness and ft" an antagonism of interests w Mch Ife though it was generally latent, v as always deep-seated. 5 "End Now and Forever.". "The men who have "fought in this war have been the men from the free nations who are determined that that ' sort of thing should end ribw and r forever. It is very .interesting to me Bt. to observe how frodw*vei4r quarter, ..from every sort of mind, from every .. httoi concert of councel there comes Jhe suggestion that there must now be not a balance or power not uuo group of nations, set up against anBa other, but a .pii^gle ^overwhelming, k powerful group ^f aat&ns who shall B ^Lbe the trustees of the peace of the fflV "It has been ddtighl&il in my^con Wferencee wt'b the leider* of ?your I government to find how our Kinds moved along exactly the saiqg line ^ and howjafo thouariyWs always that the key-gWTie peece tos the fgarantee of the peace, not the ltem?ibf it; pv that the items would be worth^Eu un IP- ! less there stood back or imm h raanent concert of power fog their maintenance. That is the mgbt reI assuring1 thing that has ever Mppened in the world. "When the war began thtf thought of a league of nations was ||dulgentp Ty considered as *the Aarestlng thought of cloeetedMtudenlW 4 It was r thought of as one 'of those wjgs that I name whir as a univerwty man. I have always resented. It Las sold to be academic, as If that is itself were a condemnation * f something that men could think aboftt, but never get Now we And the jmctical. leadmind of .the world ptermlned toll Never Witnessed Before. "No of purpose has ever been wltneea&d In the world before. Do y?t wonder, therefore, gentlemen, that In common with .those who represent you I am eager to get at the business and wVite * the sentroces down? And that I am particularly happy that the grpuad is cleared and the foundations la&l * * for we have already aceepjed t*e same J Ky of principles. Those plnclples clearly and definitely ^enough stated to make their application a f matter which should afford 90 fundamental difficulty. " 1 m * *- * ImMord Hvo "Ana UiUJK UL us IB UUIrk iu^v.^.v. yearning of the world to h&vt^all disturbing: questions quieted, to /have all threats against peace silenced, to have just men everywhere comet' together for a common object. The peoples of the world want peace ahd pey want C It no*1, not merely by conquest ' of c sums but by agreement of plnd. i It was this incomparably great ob- 1 ject that brought me overseas. It has t never before been deqpaed^execusable t for a president of the TJsited States e to leave the territory of the United f State?, but I know that I have the < support of the Jud TmentSrf my col- t leagues in the \^vernrtjnt * of the i United States tn saving jpat It was my paramount duty -to ? turn away i even from the lmperatlw tasks ' at 1 home to lend such oouns# and aid as l I could to this great may I" not say e final enterprise of humanly?" -j HAS DONE A ^5RE^j?T WORK. a Tax Commission Takes Step in Equalizing Asugrrnent*. a The State Tax ComaSaajpn reduced * the state 'tax levy thiamT&r from 91 t to,81 mills. Theyvweijp enabled to do * this by reason of- the Tact that they t put real estate values 6n the same b&- i is ha personal prope^y and corpora- 1 tion property. They began two years 1 ago with the banks and the railroads, * then took up 'cottof mills, and last I year equalized live jtock. Each time * the"* tackled a claims of property a storm of protest wfnt up from those 1 affected. But after/the operation was 8 over the patient Mt better and has c been doing nicely fince. 1 They h%ve now? put all ^classes of ^ property on a 42 jft cent- basis. The 1 raise in the real /estate assessments ? have amounted ta some twenty mil- ? lions, which made.the reduction in i the levy $oesih$. Heretofore each I country has been? fixing its own basis t for valuing real aetata and there was 1 no uniformity, lifter careful research 1 in this counti*3?the commission has < S^ed the averags value or real estate I ? for each country Some countries find 1 their va^ie ainest doubtful; others i find it reduced while still others have I not .been changla. Beaufort is'among c the latter claW If any city, Country or school dls- t trlct finds the^ew assessment raises v more -than it &?ds it can lower its 1 levy. Thai Is lk-hat the state did. < u K,?* >**? noph mav I political QlYIKinw uuv I.W. www.. , Ik its own \fry. There could be no t uniformity i* assessments without a i central boari tike the tax c&tfmissloh. ? It has take* some shaking up. to get ( this unlfodnity, and some countries i and classes and towns and school dis-, c trlcts hav? been Jolted. Every $>ne of 1 these which flntfs they must pay more > fussee to po ?nd, while the othera ' Just kee* quiet But they may all * straighten out their nests now and go i on hatching eggs as usual. 1 Each county may not feel that it is taxed on a reasonable basis com- 1 pared with all other counties. 1 There Is still to be accomplished < the equalizing of holdings in each * county. This is another story and < needs another long editor&l. Beau- i fort crfity's average assessment per 1 " ' - 1?? nt 1 acre ia? jusi, compm tu mw v??. Other counties. But inside of Beaufort county and the same Is true of the others, there is no equalizing between landholders. Jones, on Ladies' Island,; is paying a three dollars' assessment for land worth four dollars on the market, while Smith, on Port Royal^ island, is paying on a ten-dollar assessment for land worth $100 on jfce market. So there is yet a big Jato of equalizing to be done within the various counties.?Beaufort Ga|itt.. '' ,*r ' , m . Air Routes for Pacific Coast?Fori! the purpose of mapping aerial mail routes between Sac. Diego, California and Saq* Francisco, six aviators, in three machines, left San Diego last JViday and arrived in San Francisco #n Sunday, the actual flying time for gt distance of about 590 miles being 10 hours and 20 minutes. The Tehachapi Mountains, seperating Southern California from the central and northern Section of the state, were crossed at altitude of qyer 10,000 feet. Nairigatlon lanes, dead reackohing points, and landingf fields were charted oh the trip. The advanced C' rtlss type of training plane#, with one 150,horatt>ower Hispano-Suiza ' engine, were^usedL oowno nf fl v. THIS was ontr ui.. <. <= ing expeditions recently made on the ' Pacific Coast from San Diego to Seat- ' tie, Washington, not only for aerial ' mall route purposes, but to gather 1 infopnation for the navigation branch of the training section of the aviation 1 service. ' Relations with Mexiee.?Despite th? * conficting reports of internal condl- 1 tiont in Mexico, the belief is rapidly i gro*flng in official circles that MexU J co l*f again on the brink of widespread 1 revqjiution which may bring a chaotic j stati of such danger to America's in- j terests that action by the United States will be necessary. 1 That the attitude of this governin o?t toward Mexico Is more stern ] tha$ It has been for years, was given 1 further emphasis today when. It was 1 disposed that the recall by the Ger- 1 mat government of von Eckhardt, the ] Gennan embassador to Mexico, fol- ] lo\*id a hint dropped to Berlin that i sock a step would not be displeasing i to ^he United State*- The move of i th^United States is not in accord with : usttai procedure, diplomats pointed ; outj- because international courtesy i usiklly leads to such transfers being: i catllffcd out through the agency of the 1 nation where the ambassador ts sta- < Cojbnel Roosevelt is st home again at Qys- < wJlay.^dter spending seven in m New ^ 1 VACATION IMPRESSIONS rbat the Editor Learned 011 Tocation Trip to larlhoroogb . - OUTH CAROLINA NOT PROGRESSIVE - ' ' , ? .. . ' ' , 'lenty of Money in Evidenoe on Both Sides of State Line; But T*r Heels Arw Makina the Best Use of Their Profits In the Country That Was Once the Stamping Ground of Hen* ry Berry Lowrie. They've cot better roads In North Carolina than they have in South Carolina. They are making , more progress n North Carolina than they are makng in South Carolina. -They are holdng cotton in North Carolina Just as hey are in South Carolina. They are tqually saddened in both-states by , the lu, and the people of both states are iqually apprehensive of what the fuure may hold In the fehape of further -avages from this scourge. These are a few of the outstanding mpressions that were confirmed by a >rief vacation that the editor took durng the holidays. The vacation' was ipent as the guest ^of his friend, Bon. fohn L. McLaurin, of Bennettsvllle, .nd was pretty well filled with walks ind talks and rides and observations, cenes and impressions. I spent two days between Torkville ind Bennettsvllle, three nights and wo days with Mr. McLeurin, one of he days in Bennettsvllle, and the oth ir on. an auiomooue inp iu me ensi hrougrh Marlboro, Scotland and Robson counties to Lumberton, N. C, vhere Rev. Baxter McLendon is holdng an evangelical meet&g. I was on he go most of the time and the two lays with Mr. McLaurln were pretty till of interest and diversion. Let me say in order to avoid any nisapprehension, that there was abolutely no political object or signlflance in the trip. It was pure!/ friendy and social. Mr. McLeuiin it: done vith politics. He is convinced that he s not suited to that vocation. ' He uiowb very well that he could help ?outh Carolina, industrially, agricultu ally and financially, if he could be in >osition to shape legislation in such nanner as to carry out the plans that is'has long cherished "along that line; >ut he does not feel equal to the task f smashing the partisan barriers that itand in the way. So he has absolutey quit politics. He has not quit thinkng of ways and means to help the >eople to get a fair deal, means of cir:umventing the parasites that control ind prey on honest production and hinge of that kind; but he hae given IP all thought and desire for official xftition. It is not because of any loubt of bis ability to administer such position ln4he way he thinks-it,should ft1 iwi will lUeefedMfet*- wrth*r t*6caqe? ie is unable to compete in the getting, here with people who know so little vhat to do with administrative office iftes they have secured it "I have riveft to the state several years during vbich .J could have made a great deal >f money," he says, "but if the state las benefitted as much as so many of ny friends eeefh to think, I have no egrets, except that I wish I could have nore completely carried out my plans n connection with grading,, marketing ind financing of cotton." While in Bennettsville I learned 'ro'm Mr. McLaurin and others that ifarlboro farmers have not sold a great leal of cotton. They have thousands ind thousands of bales on their forms md in the warehouses- The Bennettsnr?*A^A?oa AAmtvonv nf which f HkX3 TT OUWUOV w VIr. McLaurin is the principal owner, 8 alone carrying more than six thou (and bales, and It would have twice ;hat much except for the fact that it is acking in storage room. Bennettsville, by the way, is quite a jretty town, - so far as fine business >uildings, handsome homes, well 'kept awns and yards go; but it won't stand :lose inspection as to civic progress, [t has a few concrete sidewalks, mostly :onstructed by private enterprise; but ,t has no paved streets. The town is zery well laid off on a wide, flat ridge, [t is for the most part quite level. The lte is all that_couM be desired. But :he streets are dirty, un paved, muddy, ind anything but a credit to people ivho own so many handsome residences ind business houses, along with so many high priced automobiles. On Thursday Mr. McLaurin and I :ook a trip in Mr. McLaurin's big CadUac car to Lumberton, * about fifty miles to the east of Bennettsville. The route lay through what is commonly held to be the choicest agricultural section of Marlboro, passing through the little towns of Tatum and McColl, crossing the Little Pee Dee river at Barnes's bridge, a few-miles over the North Carolina line in what was formerly Robeson, s but now Scotland :ounty. The country through which the road runs is almost as level as a floor. There is not a hill to be climbe^ anywhere. The soil is of a grayish yellow, with lots of sand in it, splendid material for a roadbed, yet the road is noariv a a ennri an that between Torkville and Rock Hill, or Yorkville and Clover. It is all cut up in ruts and Joes not have the appearance of having ever been dragged. No intelligent traveler from abroad, aware of the tact that Marlboro produces more cotton to the acre than any other county In the United States, would ever have believed that he would find the principal thoroughfare of such a county In my such condition certainly not when with but little labor and expense the road could be made perfect. The .difference in road conditions was noticeable from the time we crossed Into North Carolina. We went over the line at Barnes's bridge, noted in local history as the scene of many boldups apd murders committed by the Henry Berry Lowrie gang in the late 3ixties and early seventies. There is no change in the topography or the ?n(i The country is' Uliaiavvvi vi. vuv w?*t * _ level and flat and the soil a grayish yellow sandy loam. Forty years ago ill this country was a swampy wilderness, covered with pine and other timber. The ruling price was about 40 cents an acre. That was the situation for more than fifty miles to the aast. But it is not way now. 3reat drai page ditches have been cut :hrough the country, the swamps have . . ? - * % ' T ' 1 f disappeared, the road Is dragged every b< few days with split log contrivances th drawn by broad wheel Ford autottio- ee biles and from the Mary>oro line to n< Lumberton, more than thirty miles,'it ki is the most thickly populated rnral of district I have ever seen. Many of the tb houses are large, two-story hands^fee fe structures of eight and ten or q^ore hi rooms, while others are smaller itnd th still others are mere shacks. Mlmy gi Croatan Indians are to bo seen ^Ohg d< the road in varying stages of piSirti|r.> ity, and most of them at work, elmer in about their homes or on their kljlbA .tb or traveling the roads in their waififjns, 'hi taking produce tb nuutof or brhMKjtng til back furniture and other articl^f^br- w chased from the towns *of Maxton and < Lumberton. t i z> The country through which we ai ed, now so progressive and prosperous, tfe is the same that was once the stamp- m Ing ground of-Henry Berry LowrieAnd h his notorious, but nevertheless famous g< ban! of outlaws. Henry Berry Ldhfede ai belonged to the tribe of Croatan't*%n- al dians that is said to be descended ftmm m Sir Walter Raleigh's loot Roatfake ai colony. a rfl I can very well remember healing a members of my family talking about ^ Henry Berry Lowrie at the, diningjfca- vt ble and around the living room |Jjre to when-I was a child of 7 or 8 yearagjHe n and his gang were headliners in 'Jftie 8fl newspdfcers in those day a and thsmut fa as big a figure throughout the wgfele in country as did Jesse James, Bill wa, iq Bob D<on or any gt the rest of tntn. gj Lowrie robbed right and left, attaJbd to courthouses and Jails, carried awajshe y\ safes of sheriffs and other officials u,d ^ killed people who goi in their w. The state of (forth Carolina offer? a reward of lie,000 for the body of Henry Berry Lowrie, dead or alive, ami- \ though other members of the ?ng were taken and executed, no onelflraa ever able to claim the reward for%he outlaw chief himself- '*? g* Though as I have said, you seeufets 01 of Indians while passing through Mat ^ country at the rate of 16 of 40- rapes ^ an hour, you see nothing suggesthApf the old daya Max ton, about half |r*y. "ft between Bennettsvllle and Lumbedfen, ** then a collection of brothals, known as ^ "Scuffletown," and later as "woe ha Heel," is now quite a handsome litUe city, with brick stores, beautiful nd- mi deuces, a college building- that 4ftks as If It might have cost $50,00# &t (u more, paved streets, electric UghtAnd D? other modern publio^convenlencea '' Here Henry Berry Lowry was Bug over a period of five or sl? years,j$ud Lumberton, the county feat of Rob^fon 00 and the victim of numerous raids $K>m 80 the gang, is now a city of apparBitly . 5,000 or 6,000 people, with nUmafpus ? private mansions, some of whidmartf . as elegant and as imposing as anytBng Jo to be seen In Charlotte or ColuiAla; {Jj The streets are paved, the sldeaHka concreted, and everything has th^toppearance of affluence surroundqSby well-satisfied sober security. -dBw main oBJect bf^Urr fj berton was'to make a call on Rev. lb Baxter McLendon, who Is conducting a meeting there, Because of the veath- pi? er, the big tent the evangelist usee at ~ other places would be uncomfortable, ^ and for the purposes of this meeting he pa is using a great brick warehouse, cap- th< able of seating not less th&n five or six thousand people. We dropped In on m an afternoon meeting when the con- m gregatlon was bolow 1,000; but the ?k people in attendance said that the ml crowds at the night meetings filled the ' building to capacity, and that the in- Fr terest was very great There were all kinds of people in attendance, including the wealthiest and most represent- m: ative people of the town and surrdundlng country as well as many Croatans, among them, no doubt, descendants of J? the Lowries. nu But getting back to Henry Berry " Lowrie. Senator IfcLaurin told me ri; why he was never captured. He killed mi himself accidentally. It was on February 20, 1872. The gang had raided & Lumberton the night before and car- ne rled away the sheriffs safe, containing . $20,000 in cash. They made their ^ay fo' down to the house of Tom Lowrle, "J near Scuffletown, and began fixing ^ their firearms in preparation for alio ' -- J 1 ty pursuing party, wnne tienry uerry was trying to draw a charge from his fn shotgun the weapon slipped in his ^ hand in such a manner that the hammer struck against the sill of a corn- be crib. The gun.was discharged and the load took off a good part of Henry is Berry's head. The surviving members of the gang buried the body under the jjj corncrib for the night and later car- It ried it off Into the swamp foj a penna- 17 nent burial. It was not until years u, afterward that the facts of the occur- *b rence were made known, the members of the gang having held their tongues Se in the meantime to keep anybody from being able to claim the 110,000 reward be offered by the state. Ml Along the whole fifty miles between w< Bennettsville and Iiumberton, {here is now only one suitable place for a hold up, with a good chance for a get-away, re This is at that same old Barnes's ^ brftlge. The bridge crosses the Little Pee Dee river in the midst of a dense by swamD at the only crossing place for a tic good many miles In either direction. l?< It Is said that the Lowrie gang used to m| kill travelers at this bridge, weight their bodies down with stones and *? U1 throw them into the river, never to be an seen again. Bennettsville has suffered terribly ro from the influenza. I did not get the exact figures, but I was told that there was not a family in the town that had on not lost either a member or a close ** relative. And in passing through the ro town of Tatum to the east of Bennetts* ville, where there were a half dozen dc stores, I was told that the proprietor Fe of each and every store had died of in- ga fluenza. On Christmas afternoon 1 walked out with Senator McLaurin to the Ben- Bi nettsville cemeteries, two of them close together one known as the old ceme- th tery and the otheras^tha-VCCall came- *4 tery, the latter^jRarted aa a klitTbf cu land Bpeculatlbn enterprise. There ^ were many new made graves in both n cemeteries. Dlentv of evidences'of the f? ravages of the Influenza.' In a negro cemetery behind the bB "Old" cemetery, we nm across & rath- M er peculiar sight that- of the few made grave of an adult negro, cover- ^ ed with bottles, pill boxes, bandages, is etc. Sticking at'the head of the grave ?tf was a castor oil bottle that ha^oclgT all Inally held a quart The fleece w the ^ >ttle had been stuck in the crave and I :e remaining, oil had saturated the ' irth. There was a costly hypodermic sedle, "pneumonia cure," different < nds of pills, and various other things ' ' a like nature. Inquiry developed tat there had been stories to the efct that the negro wife had allowed ?r husband to die of neglect and j ieee tokens had-been placed on the ave as evidences of the attention the weased had received. * Senator McLaurin is still a believer ' ' better prices for cotton. He has te greater part of thrfce crops on ud, and he is not inclined to sell un1 the mice gets at least to somehere in the neighborhood of forty ints, which he belteyps 'will be Sealed before the next crop Is gathered, t the same^Ume, however, he behaves # at .the "days of'cotton growing in t arlboro are fast reaching their had. ( e thixifi that the boll weevil "will be y >ttlag n its work to the windup soon. | id because of that belief, he is doing j 1 he can to Induce the people to give t ore attention to tobacco raising. He , id his son, Thomas McLaurin, have j cenfly secured quantities of tobacco ( ed that they are distributing along j Etb instructions as to planting, cultiftion and curing, etc., and are trying j i get the farmers to go in for Uie ( ising of a million pounds of tobacco ( ! they can at once have a home marit They used a page'advertisement j the Pee Dee Advocate not long ago j the promotion of their propaganda j 41..H Sra nAvlAptlnor nrt nnnnrtlinlta i push the^work directly with Djdiduala, fcy means of arjryu?tft' and irsuahioh. 3. '* ? mm, I m ' GENERAL NEWS NOTES. en^s of Interest Gathered From All 1 the World. J Rev. Dr.'Wilbur Chaoman. the famous even- < list died at his home in New York 4nty on . iriatmas day. Henry Mitchell McOraeken. seed 78, chsnoel- t f emeritus ef New YOrk university, died De- < tnbeg 24, at Orlando, Fin. { Five large business bouses at Bristol, VS.- ? ma., were destroyed by firs Monday morning. >e lops totaled $1,500,000. A rumor to the effect that Colonel Roosevelt 8 kxld visit the peace conference in February, c a been emphatically denied. A boom has 'been started in Germany Jo ike General Hindenhurg the first president of s proposed Gorman republic. , I Prince Cdnrnd von Hobefilobe-Sehlllinge- t ret, ex-premier of Austria, died suddenly on j pcember 14, while hunting. The census department is working out plans r the .taking of the .census in 1920. The 8 irk will require '90,000 enumerators. t The food administration recently bought 14,- \ 0,000 pounds of cereals, formerly used as. _ ur substitutes, dor shipment to Belgian* ^ General Pershing on Decern Hbr 28 conferred * s-United States distinguished service medal e fourteen of the leading Allied generals. " g Simon Sobelman of St. Louis, Mo., will in , iy_ nest celebrate his 109th birthday anniver- * rj. am wmjw am wywu wj w?c iu?u/ /wu> ??. 8 rh? American Sugar Refining company of >w York, gave Ha 1C.000 employes Christmas eaents^of insurance policies qf fKQQ and U0;000 or more. . Pour' peraons were killed anSl-twenty or more rloosly injured, several fatally, by u ex. Mkm at a tbeli loading plant at Watertown, Y., December 24. lite Krupp Otm Works at Eeeen. Germany, ter paying large dividends for several rears at, has decided to pass up its divideod for t present fiscal year. IL Litvinoff, Bolshevik minister, is authority r the statement that the Bolshevik govern* snt has appealed to President Wilson to sere pesos for Bnssia. A bill is to be introduced in the coming see- < n of the Pennsylvania legislature, to make litary training compulsory in grammar and jh schools of that state, it is reported at Tangiers that British and ench representatives at Madrid, hare daunted that the Spanish government expel the irmans from Morocco. All restrictions governing the actions of ene f aliens, so Tar as tneir movements are 01 peaceable nature, were lifted throughout the an try on Christinas day. * The board of health of Boston has passed order requiring barbers, doctors, nurses and Mrs waiting on influenaa victims, to wear isks while *o engaged. The Frankfort Nach rich ten says that the sure of the property owned by the Prussian ral family would at onoe produce 900,000,000 irks, (nominally $226,000,000). A monument to Wllbnr Wright, inventor of ft airplane, Is to be erected at LeMans, ance. Paul Ladowsld, a sergeant of engieri in the French krmy, is the scolptor. ignace dan Paderewski, the famous Polish snist, has arrived in Poland to attempt the andlng of a new Polish government. He presents, the Polish societies of America. President Wilson has commuted the death ntences of Privates Ernest F. K. Leof of wa, and J. O. Jacobs of Mississippi, to twenyears in prison and dishonorable discharge. A Paris report has it that Germany has not lly complied with the agreement to surrender I its U-boats, there being one of the largest the German U-boats at Trondhjen, Norway. Prof. John MacNeil of Dublin university, has en overwhelmingly elected ss the university's presentatlve to the British parliament, over of. Conway, nationalist candidate, Macneii a Sinn Feiner. President Wilson is understood to have been adered the presidency of the University of >rth Carolina after his term of office expiree, is said that the offer carries with it a salaof $20,000 a-yaar. Walter Hines Page, late ambassador of the nlted States to England, was buried in Beeseda cemetery, near Aberdeen, N. C., Dember 24. Messages of condolence were re- > ived from King George, Queen Mary.Foreign cretary Balfour and President Wilson. Dominick Costarella, aged 26, was arrested Lancaster. Pa.. December 24, charged with ing one of the anarchists who bombed the llwaukee, Wis., centra! police station on Nomber 24. 1017, in which thirteen persons :re killed. He was betrayed by his wife. A terrific bllnard swept over the middle ist December 24 and 26. A roaring gale i ept Chicago from Lake Michigan, at tiroes aching 60 miles an hour. Illinois, Kansas, l <" Vnhraaka. Michigan and other states . ffered moat The snowfall was quits heavy. The city of Coblenx, occupied by American * x>ps, has been put under strict millthry rule ] General Pershing. The rules ore not draa- . i or retaliatory, but simply strict enough to 1 the German people of the city know that t ey are a conquered people and subject to , ilitary discipline. ' The war Industries board and tbe war trade t ard virtually went out of existence On Jan tj 1, with the resignations of B. M. Borach d Vance McCormick. respective Chairmen, t coming effective. Both, of these men. on sumsns from President Wilson, sailed for Eupe on December 31. I Ernesto Madero, formerly minister of finance ] the cabinet of Francisco Madero of Mexico, . boded guilty to grand larceny in New York i December 24th. He and two partners had t ladled a New York bank out of $102,000 on f sudulent warehouse receipts of which Made WW president. Christian Donhauser, aged 23, a German my aviator, says he is the flyer who shot iwn Qoentin Roosevelt on July 14, east of re-en-Tardenois, France. He did not know ho his victim was at the time. Donhauser ys that he is going to visit America end that hopes to become a citizen of the United a tee. A Copenhagen dispatch says that Count von -ockdorff-Rantxau. German minister to Denark, has been appointed German foreign inistcr to succeed Dr. Solf. It is said that e new minister has declared that his earnest in would be to achieve a peace baaed on Present Wilson's fourteen points and thereby sere a league of nations.' A letter from the Island of Tahiti, under ite of December 7, tells of the terrible death te on the Island due to influenza. Fully oneventh of the population of Papeete, the chief wn. are dead, the bodies being burned in an lmanaat- funeral pyre because at inability to rt the dead. There were sick in almost ev y native home. There were no nmaicinee id bat little food. It le 'reported in Washington that Speaker j amp Clark will be a candidate for the Demxatic presidential nomination in 1920, and it also rumored that ha will have the support j WllHsm Jennings Bryan, the rumor making jrasva < aore convention when Mr.Vllson-whs fin* JECENTllf AND IN ORDER I . lase ol Rape Fiend Disposed ol u Bp One Process of Law y . ' ? . V fa; (AM MMH T8 DIE JAIOItYAD 0 ? 5 Jpeoial Term of Court Convont*, With p I r.Mufrl n( BamU^Ltatlu* Ci*. 6l izen? in Attendance, and'the Court R Machinery Moves With Solemn Die* n nity That Would Have Been Credit- h able Even to a Leee Significant Oe0..10 ' ; At the special term of theicourt of general sessions cabled last Monday for ^ irith attempting a criminal aaseult on ^ he person of a young wj^lt^ glrl in ^ ?*<Jrt Mill township on the afternoon of .he 80 th of November last^the de- ^ 'endant was presented byitfer grand lury, tried- and.eonvicttd and *ntenc- , ?d to death, all within tho space of two c tours. The whole thing was dene by due t( process of law in a Qttlet, orderly, Due tolemn and Impressive manner, to the y somplete satisfaction of all concerned. Court convened at 10 o'clock, with 0 Ion; H. W. Memminger presiding, So- n icltor Henry representing the state, 0 Stenographer Thomas at his deck, and . ill the other oourt officials, including nost of the members of the York :ounty bar, Sheriff Quinn, his deputies Q uad bailiffs, add Clerk Logan and his h leputy in their places,, . After the poll of the grand Jury by he clerk. Solicitor Henry gave out his yill of indictment, and swore several t] witnesses; Judge- Memmlnger gave a k irlef but clear explanation as to the . hztles Involved, and directed that all he-grand Jurdra had to do wis to de? u ermine whether the evidence lndlc&tA probable guilt Tbe grand jury renained In its room for flfteep minutes ^ ind returned with a 'true Dill." . With the returning of the bill the iheriff brought the prisoner Into the * iourt room and placed him in the ^ toct w Already the courtroom had been fllld with spectators. For the most part ^ hey ^ included representative white ^ arm era, a majority of them men ?1 gl amines, from all parts of the\ jt ind a liberal per cent of thdm from d hat portion of Fort township In b rhich the crime waa oommltted. There C( ras no threat or menace apparent In ^ he bearing or demeanor of the audi- I nee. Thdre wa^obeervgble, however ^ . well defined solemnity that left no Jc tuestion as to the general appreciation V( if full utHnnnnAM at the whole Ituatlon in ^11 its bearings. '. Taj The prisoned having made no effort lr o secure counsel, it became the *duty b ipon J. S. Brtce^ Esq. He*sprplained ^ hat he had previously- mentioned the jt natter to G. W- S. Hart, ESQ., as senior tl nember of the bar; but Mr. Hart had aked to be excused on the ground of U-heelth. Mr. Brice said that he had previously been in consultation with jr he father of the victim, had heard the torles of the prosecution in a confllential way, and had given his advice. 'T le felt that under the circumstances g( ie would not be warranted in underaklng the defense; butwoW do so If ( he court thought differently. Judge ' ' > * 1.. At A thlnl. Ul> U^IUIUIUKCI BH4U UO UIU UVb waaasss* mp.*. ^ 3rice eras disqualified; but nevertheess would excuse him and called upon tj dr. C. a Spencer to undertake tto lefense. Mr. Spencer begged to be ex- h used, on the ground that he had not n undertaken a criminal case for twenty ears, and Judge Memminger next urned to Thoa F. McDow, Esq., who. k undertook the defense. Upon arraignment the negro plead ^ ruilty to the crime as charged In the ^ ndictment, and the court sustained a t] >olnt of law made by Mr. McDow- to t( he effect that such a plea could not be Q. intered upon the record In a capital :ase, except upon a finding of the jury ^ is to the fact. Accordingly a Jury waa e) impaneled as follows: q, T. C. RawlLnson, foreman; J. C. Har- d >er, Q. W. Knox, H. A. Caldwell, B. S. ^ tlrk, Geo. A. McCarter, S. G. Caroil, W. G. Brown, W. J. Beamguard, n t. C. Haroer. A. C. Bigger, S. V. Ay :ock. ' s< The negro objected to only one Ju or, S. P. Sutton, of Port Mill, and ' n view of his manner of Indicating his ^ lesire, It Is not certain that he under- a itood he 'vas objecting to Mr. Sutton. ["hat Is, he said "No," once or twice yj shen he thought he meant "Yes," and a' dr. McDow found It necessary to ask llm which he really meant w J. M- Youngblood, chief of police of w tock Hill, was the first witness. He ^ estlfled to the fact that on the way to e) took Hill after his arrest, Johnson T nade a full, free confession to him of - - - - - .. t.lei vhat n? naa aore ana huq um uc vas very sorry. Mr. F. H. Wilson of n 'ort Mill, also testified thst he had q leard Johnson make a similar confes- u 'on in the guard house in Fort Mill. w Ucordlng to both witnesses the negro as driven from his purpose' by the B| muggins and cries of his intended vie- d( im. u Johnson, himself, was sworn and ra )laced on the stand. He said that ilessrs. Youngblood and Wilson had ^ old the truth as to what he had tbld d) hem, and as to his confession being oj 'ree and voluntary. He said that he jr lad never seen his intended victim be- b( 'ore; that'he was idling and saw her in the road and was stirred by he did p iot know what to make the attempt, ^ 'or which he was very sorry. Q. When asked by counsel if there were w iny witnesses in the courthouse, he g1 anted to have sworn, or whether p here were any that he desired to send b or, he said "No," and Judge Memnin- 0 fer explained that he some time back t] nstructed the sheriff to find out from Q he defendant whether or not he had a iny witnesses he desired summoned m ind if so to summon them. It appear- 1( ;d that the negro had made no effort it a defense. The solicitor did not deem It neces- " (ary to'cross-examine the defendant, a *nd Mr. McDow having no other wit- g leases went to the Jury, , it Mr. McDow explained that in view the defendant's confession as cor'obor&ted by the testimony of the'wiu |j ' *' * - Till i r' ii i esses, the only question for ths Jurj ras whether the facts warranted i Bcommendatton to merer, and thai uestlon he was perfectly willing tc save to the good judgment of the Jury The solicitor had nothing to my. y Judge Memmingerti charge was vers riet He explained the nature of the Sense under consideration and whal as necessary to constitute that of?n?e. He also told the Jury of the apishment fixed by statute, deatb'b? lectrocution if there was no recomisndation, and in thj.case of a recomlend&tion not rrvbre than'forty yean or fe?b than ftve y?n at hardrtaboi i the penitentiary. the Jury took the paper* at Itt.tO clock, and returned at 11.41 with a erdict of "guilty." The defendant, who Is evidently Ota >w order, of intelligence, had. not pteiously showed any especially anlma>d concern at the proceedings; bul pon the publication of the verdict hli Me showed signs of about all tin motion he seem> -jjapahle of feOlthg xcept that he did not break down. ^ Ordering the negro to stand up udge Memmin'ger Immediately pro eeded*' to pronounce sentence, whicl ras prefaced with just a few retn?ki 5 this effect; "Sam Johnson yon have been con Icted of assault with Intent to ravish rtthout reoommendatlon, and In delining 1? make a regommendation t< lercy thialury did right The negto* f this country must be taught to un? ere tend that under no clrcumSl&acei lttstthey lay Jthsir bands on %hlt< romen with evil ihtont, for the rightsus penalty for that Is death-" Thar e concluded: "The senteace of thojsfc i death by electrocution and' the courl ronounc^ t&e sentence or tne, law 'hlch Is that you be taken hence tc to place from whence ycu came and ept in solitary confinement until be, ween the hour* of 10 a. m and X |# l, on Jan nary 10th, you will'be pd In pronouncing the sentence Jbdge lemmlnger was not *bk> to oerapletetough distinct, wii not entirely free rom a slight <lu*dfr, and hisfaoe alsc towed indications of pain. But there raa oo^hepttation. Of course. Fro or the time of the publication oi ae fury's vfTdlct only a minute before, le negro stood in & kind of a daze, iggesting an approaching swoon; but 1st as Judge Memmloger finished the sputy sheriff and* * bailiff took him Y either arm and led him out of the nirtroom, from which he was shortly fterward taken back to Columbia. . .. There whs just a little sciupinJH ret In the. bock part of the house MP 'Wing the publication* of the Jury's jrdict; 'but It was not contagious "and id- not amount to applause. The auience began to stand up and go out nmedlately following the jagtomes; at the confusion was not suffitiftnt to tent, which took plaoe at 12 o'clock. ist two hours after the opening ox le session. A WORLD EPIDEMIC. jfluenza Oils of ths Worst 8sourg#s 1 Evsr Known. *he medical editor of the Boudpn tares, stated yesterday that "there ?m? reasonable ground for believing iat some six million persons hpd died ? influenza and pneumonia during ie last twelve, weeks throughout the Grid." If the statement {s substantiated, re influenza has destroyed as many arsons , as the great world war we a.ve just completed, and It is to be ^called that the war extended ewer a eriod of more four, years add iree months, whereas the disease illed these people in' barely three tonths. Tbe total oftht 'Serbs' from lis disease will pitjfeably ne^er be oown but it is certainly well djjjhte 3S* ' A 1 miZis 16 miliums, u spread uvrn a. mun jrritory than the .. war, and no part f the globe, civilized or uncivilized, scaped its ravages. It slew hundreds f thousands Among1'the savage tribes f Central Africa; it ravaged the Esulmaux of the Arctic the Inians and half breeds of South Amera. So far, no country ha$ escaped it. In the United States where aceuite hgures are obtainable, the morillty from the' influenza was given ims weeks ago as 360,000. It is now laced at 440,000. In this .country. 1th Us great wealth; its thorough oranlzation, its many doctors, nurses nd hospitals, the disease was held hq fieck as compared with other has adinced lands and' the fatal number oi ases were greatly reduced. When la considered that the United States hich contains one-eighteenth of the orid's population, lost over four undred thousand Uvea trotn the disise, it will be recognized that the lines' estimate of six million for the atire world Is not too high: In the Mght of this slaughter it is ot -to be wondered at that 8urgeon eneral Blue should seise these figres as a reason for publishing this anting to the country: 'The epidemic is not ended, and ich recrudescences of cases and oaths as are occuring irt many local* tea may be expected to beoome tore or leas general." This is said not to alarm people lit to warn and protect thgm. The laease still prevails In many portions f the country, being particularly bad i the middle west; and it has not sen possible in some districts to get , in control, although nearly every Ion suggested has been tried. It ad been hoped that, the convention f the Medical Association held this eek in Chicago would be able to jggest some standard treatment or rotectlon, but this had proved not to e the case. There are disagreements a many points and It is recognised iat unless physicians-tend sanitarians an marshal their foiCes in a united ttack a complete and earfcr victory is carcely to be hoped for.- New OrsanB Picayune. _ * Kins Gaorso of Knilland ha* announced um mnMnt of tha Prinoeas Patricia, dausbtai rthjP.ifa^Ooa'^hu to Copm?^> KMiscy the rsritiui K *M*GmaUUn I * / ' >1. j .-'"l* i>?nwiwin< ' J yjT cim*, Delivery of Add?*m iiid,jfaidrB :s>fp? ?* 'Star .Iho Enjoym ml of i > | jlS^' <4 .,. %?4u4fcJ ' Sua&h pursi/3 / was filftbrfttin!11 irffi b^e five* and frlsioda hid an,. , W J u?y _ J. i1 people mostlv relative? audi I the ^ family..- ^The p^^mke traut betweei condition* Otta? Wp^lM' if fears a*o an 1 now, auditor 1# tsrest to that connection, lis wettaifej more Uiita ordinary interact to JjMjjffi^; rvitrlnar th< Aav thAaa III will nTjlllAd^" as much in< erect' In things la no doubt flf tko fact U?t ^ "Margaret Purvey married Wright, a-'td we do they lived or what famihr Wj?'* w*a^ "Katie Parsley married Wffliam Patfcck, and they "ved near Mr. Bankhead Jackson, about a mMenortn of Clover, they had no^Udreia^ JM "Delilah married Thomas Mcwh?rUT. and they livedI watt ofWO. i Adams's piMK We do not know wntfggn family they had. 4-l w "Polly married BSlhwi Patrick. moved wait and we have no record of f r ?S^RQoarrwl waa ratoed near Winnaboro. 8. -C. met 'Jimpeey* rtraley at Mr D IC Par- a rotfe plac*, two mil* eouth of Clorer. A "Jamee Puratev, who married game w Quarrel, waa familiarly JflPWiLjJo M " rimAMT" Pundflt He waa n carwln J tor tftrade and asat.MrAl^ Wallace's pljg^, When she was about flue ywur#-?lOg&; ,-i moved hiti family to the place laisa Susie now Uvea ' WfjB "Sallie Quarrel the mother of Ulaa Susie, vr*t bora te: fTirandlhr^tolfc 98 years fiid. JImpsey' Pu^yr jO born hi 1719 and lived to be 88 * ***$ old "dies Susie Is the only ohfr'^jjaH family now llviDa- 8be^wM^boro flHWB j years old tomorrow. Praatlostty mi j w life has been spent where ?ne wow H lives. Sb? baa led a quiet, life ?w like a mcther to her brothers ters. Sh< has known a hard work and. has worked raltnxuiiy, ? patiently and cheerfully. - "Visa Sturie has seen several cehetrag tlone con e and go lo. this concnu^jB^-^ ^ the Henrys, McElwee* Love* Vat - i sons, Falls, Qulnna. McGlll a IgWryvt, McMacklns, Campbells ^'"Thw total of children, grnAdcMbJw <t#en. great-rraaddhildreni thafc^jMH seendeoLfrom 'JlmpesT" Parsley dnfj Sallle Quarrel la ?tl.? xagm Worth IHnieU. mm J baavUrr uT/t?ly