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* , ? ' < : f "? V r " ' ' I V > . i:- .; ~ * ' - f . .... - r'?4i "fS'f-5-y ? ? - 4ms^$ v, ?: i tV ' T V " -.f.:" ISSUED SEMI- WEEKLY. " ^ ^ ? L m. grist's sons, publishers. ?i ^'amilt) jRetrspaper: J"'or (he promotion of ihe'political, Social Agricultural and (Commercial 3<n{erests of the people. TER"ifc*ptErmsNc??re* ESTABLISHED 1855 ~ ~ YORK, S. C? FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1919L NO, 95 " ' ' ??i VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS ^ Brief Local Paragraphs of More or m Less Interest. * PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS I ' J r Stories Concerning Folks and Things [ Some of Which You Know and j Some You Don't Know?Condensed for Quick Reading. In a letter to a friend in Yorkville, Mrs. Lillie M. McElreath, well known Texas woman, farmerette and contributor to a number of Texas papers including the Four States Press, leading newspaper of Texarkana, Texas reviews crop conditions and general conditions in that great state. She says: "To the great state of Texas the heavy rains this fall were a mixed blessing. In the western districts where drouth prevailed to such an extent in 1918 '. that many farmers grew discouraged and moved away, the rains insured good gardens, some crops and fine grazing lands which enabled cattle men to sell their stock for good prices and t pay ,off old debts. To the greater portion of the state, however, the rains only added to the general feeling of 1 unrest and uncertainty caused by labor shortage. Most farmers planted ! a larger acreage than usual and crops '' were fine in prospect. But hundreds ! of acres of grain ruined in the fields ' for lack of help at harvest time, much of it being sold cheap for chick feed. 1 Cotton decayed in the bolls from the ' incessant rain and when it could be 1 y gathered at all "was either sold for a I very low price or refused outright at 1 . the markets. In this section of Texas, 1 I in gome instances corn ' was gatherft ed in boats, filrther west it was left In 1 r the flooded fields. Wheat and oats grew green in the shocks. An abundant crop of nuts when they could be { reached after the rains were found to j be sprouting and bursting the shells, j A fairly good crop of sweet potatoes , was made; but not insured to keep. ( some maintaining that after curing , they would dry-rot. From favored , parts of the state some fine long staple \ cotton ttas marketed at a good price? i 40 cents and up. But the paramount ( question confronting Texas farmers , just now is labor, the truth of which is j 'tahotm in these little Stories;- One f farmer approached a lad hanging t around a wagon-yard and offered him !} $3 a hundred and board to pick cotton. ( The lad only smiled and said he could make more in the oil fields. But he j was wrong as some cotton pickers f make $9 a day and board which far ex- j ceeds the $15 a day without board in s the oil fields. Around McKinney, , Texas the farmers are offering $3 a j hundred and auto transportation, the ? neeroes refusing the old time wagon | j transportation on account of its rough I, riding saying 'it hurts their heads.' But , the farmers are not the only ones to ! j suffer from lack of help. The town f wife receives this reply to her respect- ( ful inquiry for assistance?'No, ma'am, i ah don"t take in washing no moah. Ah { used to, but now my husband gets so ? much pay ah doan care to wash any j moah. Ah doan't wash cloze for no- . body,'" , Nine Kiddies?No Hubby. A refreshing occasional diversion from the dull monotony of court prodeedings is a humorous passage that j occurs, especially in answers of wit- , nesses to questions. For instance, Victoria Sims, negress who has evi- , dently passed through many a storm , in connection with the rearing of her 11 brood of nine sat in the witness chair | the other day: "Victoria," inquired counsel for the I defense, "who is your husband." ( "Victoria," looked at him surprised like and replied: "Me. Ah ain't got no husband." I "How many children have you," inquired counsel. "Ah is got nine," replied Victoria rather proudly. Cultivating Tobacco. "Some little attention has been paid in Bullock's Creek township this year to i.*? Aiilflt'ofinn nf the tobacco ulant and a number of farmers are considering going into the industry more extensively next year in the belief that there Is good money in it," said Mr. Sam I... 1 Blair, well known Bullock's Creek township farmer who was a business j visitor to Yorkville Tuesday. Mr. j Blair was chewing home raised tobacco j (wist which was grown by Mr. Harve | Latham who lived on the farm of Mr. j W. L. Hill in Bullock's Creek town- j ship this year. Mr. Latham made about j fifty pounds of tobacco of good quality off a very small patch. Mr. Blair tola ' of another farmer in that section who made about 450 pounds of good tobacco this year. Linen Prices Soaring. Trices of linen goods are soaring right along although luckily we laid in a large stock some time ago and are able to take care of our trade at rea- j sonable prices," said Nathan Keinstein. ^ well known merchant of ^ orkville, I * yesterday. "According to reliable in- i formation en\anating from mill men in Belfast, Ireland, orders are pouring in continually from all the European.' South American and Asiatic countries; likewise from various parts of Africa. It is stated that at the time England went to war with Germany, the flax spinning mills In United Kingdom consumed about 95.000 tons of flax fibre. Of this quantity about CO,000 | tons were imported from Russia, th< balance made up with imports fron Belgium, Holland and France, At thai time practically no flax was grown ir ! Ireland outside of Ulster. It will he m [least three years before Russia wil again export flax fibre in thousands o1 tons and Ireland's production has beer largely curtailed, hence the shortage and the increase in price." East is Enforcing the Law. "They are enforcing the bofte dry law and there is no mistake about that," said John R. Hart, Esq., oi Yorkviile who returned home a few days ago after a trip to New York. "1 don't use tha stuff, myself but just to satisfy myself as to whether or not liquor was available 1 inquired of a steward in the Vanderbilt hotel in New York as {to whether or not it was possible to procure a cirinK. i nerw was nothing doing. I was told that It might be possible to buy some sort of concoction in the tough districts but the better places were not trying to evade the law. The consensus of opinion appeared to be,' said Mr. Hart, "that liquor is coming back." No Trouble Maker. It had been brought out in the testimony of another witness that Victoria had b6en residing on the farm of a white man where she pow lives for sixteen years. Counsel for the defense sought to show that Victoria's disposition was of i violent and turbulent nature and that she was constantly rowing with other hands, causing them tp leave. The fact was not made clear and finally Judge Sease remarked from the bench: "So Victoria has not had much trouble with other hands on the place or that white man whoever he is nn whose farm she lives would never nave let her live there sixteen years." And the balance of the court appeared to agree with the judge. Fighting for Flat Bonus. "Soldiers in the military hospitals iround Washington and at Walter Reed especially are fighting for a $300 nonus for themselves and for every nan who wore the uniform," according :o Geo. R. Wallace, well known young nan of Yorkville, and son or Mr. John 1. Wallace who is on furlough at his lorae in Yorkville. Young Wallace sears a bum leg which he gave to the ;ause over there and while he is optimistic over the prospect that it is gong to be right again some of these lays* he- doesn't -expect -to be to lse it for months. "Soldiers in the lospitals have been hounding the life I >ut of congressmen and senators in j (Washington over the bonus matter," j le said Saturday. "They want C300 lat and they are going to keep up the 1ght until they get it. It was largely | ioldlers?wounded soldiers who pre-1 rented General Pershing's getting that 110.000 sword from congress vou heard (o much about some time ago. When j t became noised abroad that congress 1 ivas going to hand him that the j .vounded lads started a rumpus. The egless ones and the armless ones and :hose on crutches invaded the halls of congress and committee rooms in iVashington. Their cry was: 'You are joing to give that guy $10,000. Look it us. We did the work. Are we worth 1300 apiece?' I know." he concluded, because I was one who helped raise :he row." Danger of Judge Lynch. "That just goes to show you the ianger of mob law," said Chief of Policed. M. Youngblood of Rock Hill who ivas in Yorkville Tuesday attendant jpon the court of general sessions. He svas speaking of the charge of assault with intent to ravish which had been lodged against Elijah Ervin and the grand jury had just returned a "no bill" in the case. "We got hold of the negro the night the alleged crime was committed," said the chief. "I didn't think at the time he was guilty; hut the rumor was abroad that a woman had been assaulted and mention was made of Ervin. The mob was in the mood and they would have lynched him sure that night if they had gotten hands on him. In fact they would have lynched almost any negro whom they might have gotten their hands on. Mob law is indeed a dangerous thing." Skirts Going Up. "It will be some time before the new fashion reaches York county because as a rule latest styles in women's things don't get to going good in York county until they are a year or so ohl in New York; but it is a fact nevertheless that the length of women's skirts is going up like everything else," said a Yorkville man yesterday?a fellow who does pretty well in the way of keeping up with everything that is going. "I was talking to a York county lady whose opinion goe.i quite a way in regard to the short skirts and what about 'em and all of that and she kind of set down on me." Said she: "Modesty does not lie in the length of a skirt or the exhibition of an inch more or less of a feminine leg. A girl may have skirts that sweep the ground and still be a menace from the look in her eye. Modesty and good manners are innate. This outcry against the women, young and old, ol our generation as exploiters of immodest dress is unfair and preposterous. For generations the peasant wo| men of the Old World, in the beautiful national costumes of their countries have worn knee-length petticoats, anc no one has accused them of Indelicacy There h.\ve been times when it was considered- immodest for a woman u appear with uncovered head and places ; where it is a crime to uncover her fac? or to wear properly fitting shoes. There ! I never was a period when there was as j t I little slavery tb fashion as at present, j 11 \yhether coats be long or short, skirts 11 be wide or narrow, makes little differ- j " 1 j ence so far as the style is concerned, j f It is 3. freedom from foolish thraldom i ! to dress that has grown out of the war ' > i when our women and girls worked side' Tl by side with our soldiers in a fine com- j radesiiip that nobody considered un- j M I womanly. Some men are everlastingly dictating what women's dress *hall be. | No n-ian who has anything important to thjnk about bothers about women's dresses. There is of course a group of women, and always will be, who are|rj, overluxurious in dress. For my part, ja I find nothing to deplore hut that in ^ these days of high cost and profiteer- v| ing. No matter whether skirts are g? wide or narrow; no matter how short e(] they are, I urge the women to wear ar their old clothes as rduch as possible, ju to be economical till garments get back 0(j to normal price. I say again, good j,0 manners have nothing to do with cj, clothes, and I resent any criticism of 0f our frank and modest American young t|.| I womanhood. There never were more ; girls fitted to be real helpmates to our young men than there are today. The ^ short skirt has its best argument on the score of health, with convenience th( added." wj 1 * hii SEABOARD BILL olc Tells Why He is Against the Esch Railroad Bill. * Pr< Representative W. F. Stevenson, or the Fifth District, has made the fol- ^ lowing statement explaining why he voted against the Esch railroad bill: "1. Because it provided for a govP61 ernment guaranty tc railroads for six wa months after they were returned, which, it is estimated, would cost the taxpayers $500,000,00) and was merely a gift to the railroads. g, clfl "2. Because it provided that a railD3j road, to get the benefit of the guarant)i ty, must apply in sixty days for a further raise in rates which it is ex-p" pected will be 25 per cent, and Ihis will unnually cost the people in freight ua and passenger service around $750,-Ip 000.00f\ The people expecT a reduc- (;ja tion of rates, not an increase. They ; "n ' tai were nceased 25 per cent on freight .and 50 per cent, on i?issenger traffic, and to add 25 per cent, more to that ne is indefensible. "3. Because the bill practically wipes out the power pf the state to regulate even' 1htrastrrn,s"Vates. Yf "Ts" contended that a vote against the bill ;so' is a vote to retain government control !1561 and ultimately government ownership. A" This is untrue. The president already ':f)l has ample power to return the roads to their owners, and when he opened ! ^lc this congress, May 19, he announced i ha: that he expected to return them De- Istl" cember 31, whether there was further |c01 legislation or not. I am opposed to! ownership of the country's railroads ( by the government, but I am equally opposed to the ownership of the peopie by the railroads as proposed in I%va this; bill." 1 ani I th< ARRE3T WITHOUT WARRANT, jth' State Game Warden Makes Interesting ! 1 Ruling. ' hig Persons caught in the act of violat- jsec ing the game laws of the sta :e may | mt be arrested by the game wardens with- sol out warrants, but in cases of informa- fiv tion no belief warrants are neoessa y. coi This is an opinion 1 endered by Chief it State Game Warden of Columbia. Mr. Cl< Gibbes says in a letter to Dan T. re; Woods, York county game warden: wli "A game warden has a right to make wh an arrest where the party is actually Cl< caught in the commission of an offense | his against the game laws. In cases of in- ani formation and belief or in catching aci | up with a party after he has once got| ten away, it is necessary to swear out i | a warrant. We are sending you some int I prosecution records and law pam- P. phlets under separate cover." coi I 'A man does not have to post his wa | land in order to make it unlawful for up | parties to hunt on it. No man has a right P. to fish or hunt on the lands of another ?Sti without permission, but whenever a at | man buys a license from us and we of [find him hunting on the lands of others B. we tal-e it for granted that he has per- un I mission and do not molest him unless mc the owner of the land asks us to help byprotect his property. Tn such cases we I insist that the owner of *the land shall j j prosecute the case himself. The fines ^ cit for trespassing do not come to this of- [ho fico tc be paid into the game protec- |ap tion fund and where cases are brought an by the owners one-half of the fines j ov goes to the owners and the other half ! tal either to the county or state." m I m CO ? Tie American cotton crop this Hi ! year, exclusive of linters, will be 10.- be j 130,00 ) bales, according to annual m< j forecast of Cooper & Grillin, a well- co j known cotton firm of Greenville, issued Monday. The estimate is made up from reports of the correspond- pa cuts c>f this firm throughout the cotton roi [belt. The crop for South Carolina is w? j forecasted as 1.3S6.000 bales. This j th forecast has been made annually by lot! ! Cooper (c Griffin sin :e 1010. and for ! to j the pist four years has come well j wi ! # V, i,, 100(11111 linli.c nf 1 )ir? finnl vinlit. I The forecast indicates that the crop i ar this j ear will be smallest in many uj: I years. The yield in 1D1S was 12,- tw 040,532. Cooper & Griffin's-estimate I to |'< being 12,011,000. Ihi : pi > ii'T In connection with a canal system nc ) Fralice has built a tunnel four and i half miles Ions by 72 feet wide and f?i ' | feet high. one of the greatest in the ; i world. vt CLOVER NEWS BUDGET | hat People of Town and Community are Saying and Doing. BE COTTON MARKET IS VERY DULL p. Thos. H. Allen, Well Known Citizen Crit:cally III?Good Progress With Road Worl'?Price of Hunting License of Small Importance. Clover. Nov. 28.?Considerable Inrest was manifest here in the publltion last "Wednesday in the Observer, daily newspaper cf Charlotte, which < is several subscribers in Clover and cinity, of a picture of Rev. Leslie L. i mders a minister. The picture show. the Rev. Sanders behind prison bars id bore the explanation: "Pastor is i ,i! *d. Rev. I.eslie L. Sanders, charg- 1 with using the mails to defraud, in 1 lonling a mythical evangelistic as.su- I itlon. Rev. Leslie L. Sanders, father J six children, is in jail awaiting 1 ial." Rev. Sanders is remembered 1 re very well. He came to Clover in ay, 1918 and preached at the Clover t iptist church for a month. He was l ougnt to be a splendid preacher and t e congregation was so well pleased < th him that it was decided to employ m at a salary of $100 a month. He s limed that his home was in Kansas f ty, Mo., where his family resided and I the end of a month he left Clover esumably for the purpose of going ter his family and bringing them to aver. *He was paid $100 for his first f mth's salary and the church advanchlm a second $100 for moving exnses. Weeks elapsed and nothing t is heard of him. Officials of the \ urch, finally becoming- suspicious of s i conduct, made inquiry and finally t t into correspondence with him. He I timed that lie could not accept the t storate and after considerable trou- c i and inconvenience they finally se- t red from him the return of the $100 ' vanced for moving expenses. That ? s the last heard of him until the r blication of the picture in the news- c per last Wednesday. Where he is * jail is not known and further de- ' Is of the charge against him than 1 i information given beneath the t tvspaper cut, are not known. 1 Real Estate Changes. a several real estate dei^t have taken ^ ice in the Clover section within the 9t few day* Mr. VF.Kf-'Etroup has 1 d the residence occupied for a num- 1 r of years by Mrs. J. B. Wood to Mr. a M. McNaull of Fairfield county. The a isideration was $3,000. Mr. McNaull, * is understood proposes to move to * )ver, within a few weeks. Mr. Wood ^ s bought a residence on Bethel 1 eet from Mr. T. P. Clinton for a 1 isideration of $1,800. Thanksgiving Services. -lover people united in Thunksgiv- c : services at the Associate Reformed c esbyterian church here today. There r s a large congregation in attend- 0 ce. Rev. H A. Whitten, pastor of * ? Clover Methodist church preached | i sermon of the occasion. Coming to Clover, dr. Preston Goforth, well known and f ;hly esteemed citizen of the Bethany ' :tion and a resident of that cominity for many years has recently d his residence and farm of fifty e acres to Mr. P. C. Horton for a ' isideration of $10,000. Mr. Goforth, is understood proposes to move to )ver some time in the future and has f :ent!y' purchased, a lot here upon 1 ilch he will build. Mr. T. B. Parker 1 10 recently purchased a farm near '' )ver from Mr. D. M. Parrott, has sold 3 i holdings to Messrs. J. F. Pursley 1 d Jas. A. Page. There are about 165 r res in the tract. f Clover Man Held Services. c special services preparatory to com- 9 mion were held in the Clover A. R. r church beginning last Thursday and ming to a close on Sunday. There ' s n laree eonrrreeation in attendance t ori each service. The pastor Rev. W. c Grier was assisted by Rev. Paul a roup, pastor of a group of churches a Newell, N. C. Rev. Stroup is a native c Clover, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. \ Stroup and is a yourig preacher of r usual force and ability whose ser- f ms were heard with much interest his congregations. 1 Mr. Allen Very III. s Mr. Thomas II. Allen, well known r izen of Clover is seriously ill at his t me on King's Mountain street with pendicitis and pleurisy and relatives \ d. friends are very much alarmed i er his condition- He was forced to i ke his bed several days ago and little ( prevement lias been noted in his I ndition. His sons, Drs. Chris and ( imby Allen of Newman, Ga., have n en called to his bedside and other 11 ?mbers of the family have been in \ nsitant attendance. ! t Road Work Completed. Road forces which for some time [ t st have been engaged in working the ! 1 acl between Clover and Bethany by t xy of Henry's Knob have completed, i1 cir task and on "Wednesday moved to n her sections of King's Mountain jt wnship. One gang, it is understood i 1 ill spend some time on the Bethel I ad between th? Bethel township line id Clover while the ot her has taken 11 ) the work of reoairing the road be- ] ; *en the North Carolina line and the n w n of Clover. Engineers of the state h gliway commission have just com- U eted a survey of this road and it is ^ j >w ready for the road builders. ] Many Hunting Licenses Sold. ] T. Mack Ferguson, well known Clo- 1 r man said yesterday that more than Ji 400 hunting licenses had been sold by him to persons in this community so far this fall 4nd the sales of licenses were still in progress. Numbers of persons especially negroes who bought licenses some time before the season opened and who lost them; later have bought a second license, preferring to do that rather than go to the trouble of applying for duplicate licenses. No Cotton Market. Clover has had no cotton market worthy of the name for the past two weeks. Little or no cotton has been offered and local buyers are apparently very well satisfied that there has been none. A well Informed Clover man is j authority for the statement that hardly half a dozen bales of cotton have been sold in the past two weeks. Other Matters. Among those who attended the Mitchell-Allison wedding at Blalrskdlle Wednesday were: Messes. James P. Pursley, Edmund Ford, Paul Hedge3ath, Frank McElwee, Gray McElwee. Mr. and Mrs. Allison after a short .vedding trip will return to Clover, ivhere they will reside. Mr. R. A. Jackson who is undergoing ireatment in a Charlotte hospital is jetting along nicely and hopes to re:urn to his home here within a few lays. Thad P. Clinton of Clover, was imong those who attended the Virrinia-Carolina football game at Chapel Jill, N. C. today. PROFITEERING BOOTLEGGERS. Jew Yorker Protests Against the High Prices Demanded by Tigers. New York liquor drinkers are proesting because of the fact that Scotch vhisky is selling in that city for $10 i quart and are so mad about it that hey have even written to the news mpers. York county rum-hounds hfnk that their protest is absurd be:ause they have been paying $15 a iuart for bottled in bond rye whiskey n Charlotte, the nearest supply tation without a murmur while ordilary manure-mash liquor sells in York :ounty towns for $10 a quart. Anyvay York county liquor-heads evidenty believe that liquor is worth nearer ts real value here at present than do heir brethren in Xew York. Writing 0 the editor-of The New York World 1 few days ago, fellow who signed ilmself "Indigent," said: 1 wish to record my protest against he profiteering otl&9tleJjg?r?._JJ have ecently been forced to pay as much is $10 for a bottle of Scotch whiskey, nd bottled-ln-bond domestic goods lave risen proportionately. My bootcgger tells me also that the market las an upward tendency and that there s little posf-iblity of a reduction in >rices. While the government is fixing the trice of almost every other essential ommodity it appears to have entirely tverlooked this?one of the most im icrtant. Those of us who like to take i drop of something warm against he winter winds are not averse to laying a'fair price for it but object o being gouged. I hope the government will, take some strong action and ix the maximum price at which booteggers may sell their wares. ' BRITISH WAR DEBT. 'roposition to Pay it by the Sale of Church Property. Observer^ of Great Britain's financial roblems says a London dispatch, atach some significance made recently hat the main burden of paying off the luge national debt created by the war hould be laid upon the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, nore particularly on the former. The iroposal is that all their property, lnluding Westminster Abbey, should be old and converted into cash for the elief pf the debt-afflicted country. The attention attracted by the idea s due largejy to its source it being irought forward by "The Statist," one if the widely read Journals of finance ; .nd trade. The writer of the article | .sserts that the annual interest charge | if ?500,000,000, which he estimates j vill hang like a millstone around the ! lation's neck unless some means is bund to get rid of it. Hence the necessity of making a arge hole in the debt "by one large lacriflce" with those who have the nost money contributing the most in ne emergency. "There is no reason," argues the i vriter, "why the Church of England i ihould be supported by the whole popllation. It is not believed in by the vhole .population, and therefore it >as lost all right to extract support 'rorr those who do not attend its services. What is wanted now is that he whole property of the church, vithout exception, should be used for he freeing of the country from debt. "It has been suggested that very Utile could be forgot Westminster Ab>ey. We differ entirely. We believe i hat a very large sum could be got for | West minster Abbey. The wise course' .vould be to put the Abbey up at auc- | ion and allow every great church to 1 jid for it as much as they please." ? The posioflke, located on the first | ioor of the Guardian building, in Hampton, was forcibly entered some ( time during Sunday night by unknown parties, the safe blown open, and in I iddition to the cash and stamps in it, i registered package from the Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond to the Hank of Hampton, containing $5,300 in Victory bonds, was taken. Xo clue to :he robbers has been obtained. w I MAKING BETTER ROADS Excellent Work In King's Nountaii Township. . ! COMMISSION GETS GOOD RESULT! ; Lets Than Half of the AvailabW Money so far Expended and at Least riTieen mues or noiai rraciicaii> Completed. Now that the heaviest part of th? work of gathering the crops is out ol the way, the King's Mountain Township Highway commission has resumed Its activities on the public roads and is pushing ahead as rapidly as the weatheV anj the labor supply will permit to finish up by the end of the year as much work as has already been commenced as is possible. Up to the present time the commission has practically completed about fifteen miles of road, in whole and broken pieces of sections, and so far it has expended only about 25,000 of the 60,000 derived from the sale of the road bonds. Unless there is unforseen interference with the plans now In operation, it expects to spend somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000 more during the present month, and wind up the year with about $30,000 for further operations. It Is some remarkably good work that the commission haB done. The work spqaks for itself, and that It is of surprisingly superior quality is the verdict of practically everybody who has seen it. The editor of The Yorkville Enquirer went over a portion of the road last Wednesday afternoon in company with Mr. D. C. Clark In his automobile. Because of limited time, the lateness of the hour and threatening weather, the trip took in only a portion of the different stretches of work that have been completed In whole or in part; but it included all that has been done along the eleven miles between the York township line and thp North Carolina line. Mr. J. D. Smith, secretary of the highway commission, got in the car at the invitation of Mr. Clark at his/home eight mfies north of Yorkvllle; and rode cn ufi to the North Carolina line. He was able to answer the editor's questions, as to what was being done, how it was being done, approximate costs, etd., aud it is to be said of him nilUA art A />nn lilClb a 1IXIUUQ it itivmcab auu VVM servative about it till he Is showing1 most commendable interest for a careful business man of affairs who is carrying such a heavy public responsibility practically without pecuniary compensation, his pay being only nominal. J The King's Mountain road work is practically completed from the North Carolina line down to Smith Brothers a distance of approximately seven miles, and it was here that the road workers were encountered. The workers here were engaged in surfacing. They had already prepared the roadbed with a nice rounding up toward the centre with clean cut waterways on either side, and were then engaged in surfacing. The surfacing is done with surface soil from adjoining field and here this soil was piled in the centre of the road to a height of from two to three feet for a distance of a hundred yards or more. The next operation as Mr. Clark explained was to go through the centre of the heaped up soil with a big plow and afterward, with scrapes, drags, etc., spread it over the whole roadway, leaving it higher in the middle and thinner toward the 0 ter edges. In the middle of the road the soil is left to a depth of 12 or 14 inches, so it will pack down to about ten or twelve inches, and the whole roadway is so covered as to leave none of the original surface exposed except at the outer edges. There was working at this point a force of fifteen or twenty men with Mr. John W. Quinn, in charge. After passing the long bank of surface soil piled in the road, the automobile came upon the recently finished surface of the old road, which though not quite as hard and smooth as could be desired was such a marked improvement over what it had ever been before that it was an easy justification of the work that had been done. It is what anybody would call a good road, far superior to anything over which the car hau passed on the way up from Yorkville; buv although it was quite smooth and carried the rapidly moving car without the Jolting that had been experienced just previously, Mr. Smith did not appear to oe enureiy satisfied with it. It showed some deep ruts that he did not altogether like; but which he hoped would eventually be smoothed out by constant dragging. From Bethany church, however up to the North Carolina line, a distance of about five miles, there is no need for apology. The road is as hard and as smooth as could be desired with hardly a rut, and not a grade that would call for the slightest modification of speed. It is simply as good a road as anybody could want. "It used to be the talk up this way," remarked Mr. Clark," "that you could tell where you struck the line b;* the difference in the road, the rdad on the North Carolina side being so much better than it was on the York county side. The difference is still as noticeable as it has ever been; but it is now in favor of the York county side, although the North Carolina road is still as good as it was." Mr. Smith was not sure but that the excellence of this road surface was due in large measure to the superior character of the soil that had been used upon It The soil had come out of the flelds adjoining and In Mr. Smith's I judgment the packing qualities of it were just about the right thing. He was evidently quite proud of the work along here; but he did not say anything to > indicate the fact. He was rather inclined to leave the road to speak for itself. 1 The heaviest work, so far, it appears, has been done between Bethany church ' and Clover, over what known as the "Knob" road. This work has been | completed. There are six miles of it - and there was considerable dirt to ' move along here. The total expense ^ averaged about $1,300 or $1,400 a mile, r and the improvement over the road as ' it orlglnal'v stood, is easily reckoned at ' from 50 to "3 per cent According to the estimates of Mr. 1 Smith, the expenditures so far hays averaged about $1,100 per mile on each ml 1? cnmnlataH ovnnt nn ir?k ? - - ?Wit tliw {VI1UU road between Bethany and Clover, where the expenditures wars several hundred dollars higher. All of the work is under the general 1 superintendency of J. R. Gamble, On experienced road man who helped build roads for the American army in * France, and who knows his businee^, and the different sections are in charge of A. C. McCarter, John % Quinn, Albert Quinn, Grady Adams, Carlie Pursley, R. M. Robinson, these are doing first class work. Mr. Smith says that the people along the road generally have been cp? operating as liberally as anybody could desire, and the outlay for top soil, soil from the cultivated fields, has been very small. So far as information can be Ob- \ talned, the people generally are very much pleased with what has been accomplished so far, and the principal regret seems to be the fact tfyat there is not available enough money witn which to do a great deal more Fork than now appears possible. "It is our. intention," said Mr. Smith "to continue the work on down to the York township line." This is about four biles from Yorkville at the point where the _road turne oft toward Clover. ? " ' "J WOOL COTTON v'* t -i Anderson County Man Growy 8t?ple Worth $2 a Pound. W. B. Jones, of Brushy Greek township, Anderson county^ brought-to the city Friday morning several bolls of "wool" ooftotl. Iha ffhrw of wtiloli r*. sembles wool very closely, both in/ texture and in length. The fibre is several times as long as staple cotton and Is said to be normally worth in the neighborhood of f 2 per pound. The histdrg'.'qf the "wool" cotton grown by thif Anderson county farm: er is interesting.. Beginning with the seed from only one lock of the cotton, which h<td been imposed from Australia, Mr. Jones handplcked the lock and planted the seeds in a fertile opot neax his home. All of the stalks with the exception of four were killed by the cut-worms, he stated. : The surviving Btalks are higher than a man's head, Mr. Jones stated and each contained more than 1M. bolls. Farmers for many miles about came to view the strange cotton while bolls were put on exhibition at the Pickens county fair and at a number of other fairs in the Piedmont section. Many bolls were readily sold by Mr. Jones at 10 cents each at the various fairs, while many others were given complimentary to farmers throughout Anderson, Pickens and Greenville counties. 1 rio Mr- Jdnes , thinks that there is a wonderful future ahead of those who plant the cotton, although he says the seed will be scare for a number of years to come. His object in scattering the seed through this section was to have sufficient farmers interested as to encourage the cultivation of the new cotton. Mr. Jones has re* tained sufficient seed to cultivate one fourth an acre of the cotton.?Green-, ville Piedmont. . m ' BETWEEN MAN AND MAN When the Gentleman From Illinois Met the Gentleman From 8. C. When the vote on the railroad bill was taken late Monday night, Representative James R. Mann, of Illin^ who has Just returned to his duties after several months illness, upon hearing another member called by the name of Mann, walked over to the Democratic side and asked that he be introduced to his namesake, Representative Mann of the Seventh Congressional Dlstrjct of South Carolina. The introduction was promptly, brought about, says a Washington dispatch. Representative Mann, of Illinois. informed his namesake that he had no sooner returned to congress when found another Mann had killed his vote?Mann, of South Carolina, voting against the Esch measure and Mann of Illinois, ror it. The older Mann admonlahed his young namesake that he would have to be always on the Job "as his worthy predecessor had set a pace hard to keep up with," but "knowing the Mann stock" the Illinois veteran said he was satisfied that the new member would measure up to all requirements. ' tv An Arkansas inventor has patented an electric headlight to be mounted !on a horse's bridle, furnished with cur| rent from dry batteries attached to - < [the hanness. b ' i J