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' '-Y; : - . - M *'/':'' ' '0" : Sfl - ; : 7 ' " ~ ' WSg ! - l -* *; ' ' . .7 - .% r. .. .-. . -...-rv , .. ' ;^k"? j S P SEMI* WEEKLY. ' ..? 111 . ...i ..i ..?. ..' .I,. - n -i i iii i. M. i i :.'t0 ' l. m. grist's sons, Publishers. % 4Bimli? fteajspagcr: ^or-the Jlromoiion af the fjoUiiipti, Social, Jgricultmial and Commercial interests of thc|eopty TE iS;^50cor?EK^^^ ' :M ? ' ~ ' ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., FRIDA.Y, FEBRUARY 4, 1921. NO. 10; ; . ^Jf " ? - ? .. " : V; N VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More cr Less Interest. , PICKED DP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "I sold a hundred bales of cotton yes- ! terday," said Tuesday a prominent business man of the county. "I got 15 1-S cents a pound for it and today 1 notice that it is dotvn a good deal from that' figure. I am not advising anybody to sell cotton," the business man went on to say; "but I have no apologies for CL.^11 i n c minn T PAlilH fpf fillt of Hphf by selling it and that is what I did. If it goes up I'll have no regrets." Matches Going Up. "You wouldn't think it, would you?" remarked the wholesale salesman to a retail buyer Wednesday; "but it is a fact that matches are going up in price instead of coming down. Our latest quotations show an increase of 50 cents a case in the price of matches." The salesman said that he had no explanation of the cause-unless it was because there are only a few firms engaged in i the manufacture of matches and they have the business "sewed up." Up Against It. Here is a copy of a letter said to have been written by a creditor to a bank when the bank sent ? notice of note due. Mr. W. W. Bovce of Fort 31111, gave the editor of The Yorkvllle Enquirer a copy of it when the editor was in Fort Mill a few days ago and Mr. W. 13. Moore of Yorkville, mailed Views and Interviews a copy about the same time. Anyway it is to laugh: "Dear Sir; I received your letter about what I owe you. Now be pachent. I ain't forgot you, and as soon T 11 .-.OT- vnti If t.Ilic iU^ I'.'iiva j/dj my, x it jwm. ?.. ? was Judgment Day. and you no more prepared to meet your God than 1 am to meet your account, you sho going to Hell." Take 'Em Off. "1 wish ladies would, take off their hats when they go to a picture show," commented a man this morning who appeared to be a little out of humor about it. "I sat in a moving picture . theatre a few nights ago. The placewas fairly well crowded. Scaled in front of mo was a lady about as broad I as she was long and she wore a big hat.! Of course I couldn't see through her I and 1 couldn't sec over her on account! of that hat. I whs in a fix, I'll tell you. j You know," he concluded, "this old j world would bo a more attractive place J if we all showed a little more consideration for the other fellow all along the line.'' The Proposed Catawba River Bridge. "We people here in the north-eastcm part of the county would like very much to see Yorkville take a more active. interest in the proposed Catawba river bridge," writes Mr. R. R. Ilarpcr, of York So. S. "We have about 25 or 20 miles of river from bridge to bridge and no way whatever of crossing only | by small boats. The bridge would not i take trade from Yorkville: but would ; be the means of getting a good road all! the way to Yorkville. Therefore Yoik- : ville would get more trade from this, section as wc can buy goods in Yotk-i ville cheaper than we can in Charlotte. | for living expenses, rents, etc., are! lower in small towns and they can afford to sell at a lower price." Cheaper Groceries for Cash. The retail grocer was talking tilings' over the other afternoon with Views j arid Interviews. Said he: ... *1.? . ' ? I..JA1.A..,. mi'A Ciinir 1 L IlUl.iJt* Llliit hhj uuiciiao ?t.iv i on a cash basis, and. I wish the retail i grocers could g:-t together and do like - ' w!if. It would mean cheaper groceries 1 for the consumer and believe me in a ' time like this commodities should be as cheap as possible. When wo sell 0:1 i credit we necessarily have to charge i higher prices. There are so many peo? pie vim don't pay their grocery bills' and we have to make up that loss i s-iinoJiow. The cash system would cut the expense of bookkeeping and it, would cut other expenses that would , mean cheaper living. Maybe we will j get to it some of these days, i don't know." Passing cf Gania. "I have also shot wild tin keys in o It.. the day of the muzzle-loader; we had never seen a breech-loader in "our country. Only white men hunted, and. ! comparatively few of them. Besides it required skill to load a gun, as well as skill to shoot it, and the weapon soon, fotfled. The bag was necessarily limited by this and the time taken up loading. Ammunition was high and money scarce. "I have lived to see his prophecy I verified, and verified to an extent he never dreamed. In those days Arkansas was in the Far West. My two uncles who went there (driven out by their Ku-Klux activities) were mourned as dead, almost when they left us. The buffalo and the grizzly wore both found in Arkansas. Euffalo tongues .and buffalo meat were on sale Everywhere. We bought both in Charleston, likewise prairie chickens. "I have myself shot prairie chickens within the limits of the present city of Fort Worth, Texas. There is not one left in 500 miles of Fort Worth today, so far as I can learn.- The buffalo has all but left the earth. "In my youth wild turkeys were fairly common in the Up Country, at least in the less settled portions of Abbeville and Edgefield. I have also shot wild turkeys in Chester county. ^ "Sow, had we known the facts of ( the situation, of how rapidly game was vanishing. there might have been a stop put to it; but we did not know. We had no means of knowing. "It is a privilege of this generation to . know the facts and to restore the im- i , paired inheritance. There is not the | slightest reason for game or fish , scarcity in South Carolina, granted | adequate protection, as I can easily demonstrate to anybody's satisfaction t by actual facts of record, taken from ( recent experience. , "To get it before the people, put into the common schools. Inspire boys and girls with correct ideals, based on positive knowledge, and with that knowledge save the race. The Lord says in llosea, chapter -1: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"? too true." Sand. "Put this in your pockctbook," said Wednesday a friend of Views and In- ' terviews, "and when things are not ] coming your way, take it out and rend j it. It will do you good: i I observed a locomotive, in the railroad yard, ] one day: ' It was waiting at the round house, where the locomotives stay.; It was minting for the journey, it was coaled I and fully manned , And it }:>. ! a box the fireman was filling full of tar.d. 1 It appears that locomotives cannot always got a grip i On their slender iron pavement, 'cause their , wheels are apt to slip: So when they reach a slippery spot, their tae- ' tics they command. ! And to got a grip upon the rail, they sprinkle it with sand, l.'s about this way with travel along life's slippery track? ' if year lord is rather heavy, and you're a'ways sliding Lack : . If a common ioconiitive you completely un- ' dersland. You'!! provide yourself in startim? with it K->td i supply cf sand. I ( If your truck is steep and lii!!y, and you have J . a heavy Krads. And if these who've conic before you have the raiis cjuile slippery made, < If you'd ever reach the summit of the upper tableland. Ycu'll find you'll have to do i: fcy a literal use ' of sand. j I If you strike some frijrid weather, and discov-j j or. to your rest. That you're liable to slip upon a heavy coat of 1 f rost. . 1 Then same prompt. decided action will be called into demand. . And you'll slip 'way to the bottom if you haven't any sand. You can jtet to any station that is en life's I schedule r.ccn. If there's lire beneath the boiler cf ambition's strut;? machine. And y,.u'il reach a place called I'luslitown a, j a rate of speed that's vrrnr.d. If for all '.Sic slippery places you've pot a pood j supply of s;ind. NEGRO FOR SENATE. Miliionairo Hum Merchant Seek: Place ; Amor.g French Deputies. One of the most rontarktiljle romances .'.i tin. cntili-ll fiL'llre ' PAY FIND SISTER Ward of Admiral McCully May Have Relative in United States. HER PHOTOGRAPH IS RECOGNIZED Mrs. Jack Muschnick of Milwaukee Thinks Possibly Child is Her Baby Sister. Through the agency of newspapers, little Nina Furman, one of the adopted children of Admiral N. A. McCully. o Hn/1 Alrloul eictor fillvp fiml well, and conversely, 2;: Jack Mus- | clinick, of Milwaukee, may find that her baby sister has escaped from the perils of war-torn Russia, and is a member of the admiral's happy family, according: to the Anderson1 Daily Mail. Stranger things have happened, and efforts of newspapermen in Milwaukee, Washington and Anderson, may prove that the two arc really sisters. News of the recognition of Nina Furman by Mrs. Jack Muschniclc, Milwaukee, as her sister, comes tg the Daily Mail from the Wisconsin News, published at Milwaukee. Mrs. Musshnick lives at 'Milwaukee, and is a native of Russia, having come to America seven years ago. Since that lime she has heard nothing from her family, but as they were in the region where Bolshevik warfare has raged, she had almost despaired of lives of her loved ones, until she saw the picture of the little Russian wards of the liig hearted admiral. Of the events from the Milwaukee end of the story, the following from the Wisconsin News gives a clear , story. Leaves for America. Seven years ago Rose Furman, p pretty Russian girl of 19, stood on the loorstcp of her little homo near Kief, mhrnced her 'aged parents and bid i tender farewell to four little nrom Errs and sisters. Then with her*sweettienrt. she departed for the land of promise?America. Today, Mrs. Jack Muschnick, G17 Tenth street, same young; womatn, appealed to The Wisconsin News for aid in finding one of the little sisters who she believes has escaped the fate of Hundreds of Russian children and is now safe in this country. The trail which Mrs. Muschnick "eels certain will lead 1o the finding >f her lost kin. may be taken as nnlther eccentricity of fate. dancing over The Wisconsin News jn January 9, last. Mrs. Muschnick svas attracted by a picture of seven ;hildren brought to the United States [y Rear Admiral Newton a. Aicuuny. A tremor' ran through her body as ' *he noticed the features of one of the <id dies. ? "It's she! My Cod. It must he .rue! She's saved!" Grasping the paper, Mrs. Muschnick an excitedly to neighbors. Beneath he picture they read the name "Nina Airman." "it must he true. She can he no :>lher than your sister," they said. But seven years in a new country is not ample time to assimilate a multiudo of strange customs. Almost fearing to hreath her discovery least her hope might lie flattered, Mrs. Muschnick kept her own counsel. Plans to write to Admiral McC'nlly himself wore abandoned when Mrs. Muschnick realized her limited command of English. Recognizes Picture. I'p at the! Lincoln house, the immigrant linos most of ins problems can lie solved, and it was there that Mis. Muschr.ick brought her request today. 'Irs. Itosc Stern matron, heard the story. "The picture was printed in The Wisconsin News, perhaps the.v can help you find her." she said, and noti:ii-I this office." "I never expecte?] to see another member of my family alive." Mrs. iiusvimiCK turn ;i >% .,cn.-i importer. "If you can llnd out thai this is my little sister and show how ] enn bring Iter home lo me, it will he the happiest moment oi' my life." lists .Mrs. Mug?!)nick made a discov-j cry which means more to little Xina j l-'urman than even the tender care of Iter benefactor, Admiral .McCully ? Snatched from the very hand of death is a little air! to he' reunited with a relative of her own Mood? The special wires'of The Wisconsin News to Washington are carrying the message today. iv-rhaps she will I.e. In a letter to the oily editor of the "iai'y .Mail. II. J. Kwnld, city editor of the Wisconsin News said: The I'urnians live 1 ;it Undorkori: near Keif. Kr.ssia. TIi.ti' wcri' six ?-iiil?i:*?-si in the 1'jimily. Xasso. Alosrhc. 1 Sfii. Kohiva, Nina ami Uoso. The parents names wore David an.l Jlanetal. i A Quiet Child. .Mr. Kwai.l also encloses a family jrrnan. taken several years iipi, and an excerpt liT.ni a loiter received 1 ?y .Mrs. .Mtischnick from Nina ami a nolo :>> llietliilil from .Mrs. Mnschnok. The picture was taken in Ktissia. and shews a small child, who hoars a rom.nrlnihV resemblance to Nina Knrntan. one of the pd mi mi's wards. The similarity of the names of the physical likeness of the child to the picture tnakts local people feel that the rev.ignition of Mrs. Mtisehniek of her sister may ho a jrontiine one. I'eir.ons who were with the children during Ihi'ir stay in .Anderson romein her Nina as the most reserved, quietest one of the lot. "While all seemed happy, the other children seemed to express their happiness more openly than the quiet little girl, who seldom spoke to anyone, and who seemed at times, most sad. Photographs, letters, etc., are being sent forward to Admiral McCully at once, in order that Mrs. Muschnick may know the truth as to the identity of little Nina as soon as possible. BEATEN BY BOOZE. f " Many Famous Figures Now Down and Out Because Of It. Manhattan hails the conqueror and shuns the defeated. Success is the golden key that open every door, writes O. O. Mclntyre, noted New York newspaperman. Failure builds its own barriers. It is a . changing city and ruthless* In almost every endeavor there is to be found that silent, brooding dejected army . of men who have lost their grip. In the Globe theatre lobby, gay with silks and furs and expensive shirt fronts, the other night there came a young old man who seemed buried in his shabby overcoat with his hat pulled down. Two critics bowed quickly, but no one else heeded him. Yet only a few years ago in the same theatre he rose blushingly'in his box to the cries of "Author," and bowed his thanks. Flis decline was swift. "Whisky. The tale is old a?r\ong the medical fraternity of the surgeon whose nerveless hands made daring strokes before spellljbund clinics and who had his stone mansion at Newport and a vast Wewtchestcr estate. And yet one night, twitching and hollow-eyed, he was taken out of an all-night Tenth avenue safe to a Raiting patrol because he could not pay a 20-cent check. He was on Blackwell's Island f<?r three months without a visitor. The cross streets of the Forties are filled with men whose names illumined theater programmes of another year. They cringe at the doors of movie exchanges hoping for some extra bit. A magazine illustrator is now a doorman at a Madison avenue club where once he lived. Most of the members he knew and had dawdled with them over the nightly Scotch and soda, but few recognize him now. .#* Longacre square has became accustomed to the occasional visits of the powerful figure, collarless'- and unn-hn fr#?rruentiv cdrrh's out of a side street at midnight with uncertain I steps. He shadow-boxes- with imagi-/ nary foes." mumbles and cackles to himself and is finally chased, away by a sympathetic traffic officer. The man was once a mighty boxer and has battled before crowned heads. Now he iives over his past in drug dreams. New York in its mad scramble for success hab not time for failure. Only the bells of the Bowery pawnshop ring a welcome to the down-and-outcr. Sooner or later they go to the Missions, where they find food and warmth. And sometimes they come back, but as a rule they remain. DOARD UNDER HOT FIRE. | Senator Hart Would Abolish State Board of Charities and Corrections. Senator John E. Hart of York county. joined with Senators Wight man and s Widcman in an attack on the state board of charities and corrections in the senate in Columbia, last Tuesday night, t.!ic bill to abolish having been offered by Senator Wightman. An unfavorable committee report was laid on the table and Senator Wightman launched intu an attack on the board, claiming that when it was created supporters of the movement declared all evils would be cured and that now conditions were just as bad, as he! saw it. Jle charged that the secretary, C5. Croft Williams was not content to receive a salary of $li,500 from litis source, but in addition taught Bible at TO BRIDGE THE CATAWBA York and Mecklenburg Commissioners Make Agreement." ^ \ . BRIDGE TO COST ABOOT $92,000 Mecklenburg Will Bear Two-thirds of < Expense and York County One-third ?Work to Commence as'Soon as the 1 Commissioners Deem Practical. ( An q nrncmont- whcrfhv Yiork COUntV , and Mecklepburg county, N. C., will build a bridge across Catawba river at j the Buster Boyd site, in Bethel town- , ship, was made at a meeting of the , York arid Mecklenburg county commis- s sioners held in Charlotte last Tuesday. , The bridge will cost approximately j $92,000 and under the terms of the agreement made by Supervisor Hugh j G. Brown and Commissioners Ladd J. ^ Lumpkin and J. C. Kirkpatrick of York ] county, and Commissioners J. B. McLaughlin, J. R. Winters, W. M. Rose, P. { D. Price and Joe H1. Robinson of Mecklenburg, the latter county will pay two- j thirds of the entire cost of the bridge, c while York county will pay one-third. York county, it is understood, already has her portion of the money available j for the preject. Mecklenburg's coming r in is contingent upon the rights and t powers of the board of commissioners of that county to issue bonds under the acts, same to be decided by the su- f preme court of North Carolina. t Bridge Long Needed. J The bridge, which is the result of i many months' agitation, will be built at r the Buster Boyd site, half way between Shoal's Ferry and Fort Mill, S. C. Work i is to begin as soon as the Mecklenburg i commissioners can issue bonds cover- s ing their share of the cost. The nroiect will fill a long-felt need, ? the commissioners say, inasmuch as it Is directly connects Mecklenburg with her sister South Carolina county. The c bridge and. the necessary approaches t are to be constructed of such materials c as the joint commissioners of the two r counties designate. Mecklenburg county will pay twothirds of the total cost and York coun- ' ty will bear the remaining third. Rep- { resentatlves of the, South Carolina * county said they already had the nee- * essary money in hand, but Mecjclen- * burg will ask the supreme court for t authority to issue bonds covering the 1 sum this county will pay, saiys the 1 Charlotte Observer of Wednesday. It was first thought that the bridge ' would cost about $102,000, but later es- ' timates reduced these figures to $92,- T nnn Work will begin as soon as the | commissioners deem practical. 1 It was pointed out that there is no means of crossing the Catawba be- * twecn Shoal's ferry in Mecklenburg, and Fort Mill, S. C., in York. The dis- ( tance between these points is 23 miles ! by water. Much inconvenience Is caus- ' od persons living in the territory be- ( twecn the present bridges. c Delegation Urged to Act. 1 In the resolution endorsing the road bill, the commissioners urged Governor Morrison and the Mecklenburg delegation in Raleigh to use their best ef- , forts to secure the passage of the bill. The two resolutions passed yesterday follow: "Whereas, there appears to be need of and believing it to be to the best inter- ^ ests of a large number of the citizens of the counties of York, S. C'., and Mecklenburg. X. C., that a bridge be constructed across the Catawba river ( separating the said counties: "And, believing it for the public welfare of the citizens of the said counties) * ?i. f?nn?tructed as soon | , I Jill L JSUCJI MI JUJJV ?.?w ? as practical; j "Bp it, therefore, unanimously resolv- | ed, by this board that a bridge at Buster Boyd site and the necessary ap- J proach.es there, be constructed of such material and construction as a joint j commission of the counties interested shall designate and that the total cost thereof shall lie borne by the said two counties in the following proportion: "That Mecklenburg county shall bear two-thirds of such cost, and that York , county shall bear one-third of such J cost. j "The above resolution, however, shall be upon the express condition as to the rights and powers of the board of commissioners of Mecklenburg county, to ' issue bonds under the acts, same to be doc id oil by the supreme court. ( "The above resolution bavins been duly passed by the said joint boards , of commissioners, the members of the | said boards have hereto subscribed their several names, each to the other of the yood faith of the same." ' MEN AND BUSINESS Financial Expert Writes oF Little Incidents of the Business World. A little old lady who hadn't had a new bonnet in ten years was taken * out for an automobile ride by a business woman the other day, writes : Richard Spillanc. She was very conscious of her clothes, which were much worn, ami more so of her hat, which * was a rusty. Mack affair. < Queer, isn't it. how much women think of hats? i The little old lady rode over country highways ami city streets, and was a hi! bewildered when the car stopped and the business woman helped her out and into a. shop. II was a milliner's. The business woman had the little old lady take off the rusty old black hat and try on sev oral the salesgirl or she selected. "You're going to have a new hat," said the business woman. The little old lady's heart missed a beat when she heard the announce- ! nent. A. minute later the little old lady overheard the price of one of the hats -?10. ' ] "Ohl I couldn't wear a hat that cost so much," she protested. "Bosh," exclaimed the business wonan, who "thereupon picked out a beautiful bonnet of soft folds with a lelicate band Inside and put it on the )ld lady's head'. "Oh! it's lovely, lovely," exclaimed :he little old lady, who was so excited ihe didn't know which way to look and,vho became more flustered when a salesgirl pinned a veil over the bonnet md told her' bonnet and veil were iers. The business woman was waiting 'or change from a bill she had given :o the salesgirl, when the little old ady touched her on the arm and vhispered: "Oh, see, there's another jonnet like mine." Mist came into the eyes of the busness woman then. "My dear," she .aid to the little old lady, "why that's rou and your hat.'! And ft -was so, though the little old ady couldn't believe it was her own -efloction she saw at the other end o? he long room. The same business woman has some 'riends, inmates of a home for aged vomen. To them she goes calling iow and then. They are fed and cared 'or in the home, ljut they have no noney. One day she had them out journeyng, and incidentally, to tea. They vero much excited over the tea ball the used. At Christmas time she made a pres;nt to each of her friends in that inlituation. It was a tea ball, a replica of the >ne they admired.so much, and in each ea ball was a $5 bill, so that the redpients would have some spending . noney. ' . This business woman is a fine, large ' landsome woman, who manages her iffairs better than nine men out of :en could do it. She has a philosophy 1 hat is worth considering. She never ! jives, presents to those who have, but ' :o those who need- and have to go J vithout. She invifes"tO"'her" hotel as ler guests now and then, those to : vhom such a'visit is in the light of a :hrilling thing, something of joy to be :allccd of and held as a treasured 1 nemory. Maybe it's because /of her philosophy that the business woman looks /oung, acts young- and feels young 1 ;hough a grandmother. J Maybe if business men looked out 1 >n life as she does they'd bring more iunlight into the lives of many loss "ortunate than themselves, and inci- 1 lcntally, bring more of it into their 1 mm. The foregoing is printed because iVords are things, and a small drop of ink, [ 'ailing like dew upon a thought, I produces ! That which makes thousands, per- 1 haps millions, think. 1 HOME OF SILVER FOXES ] Fur Farming Is a Big Industry on ' ^Prince Edward Island. The little Canadian province . of Prince Edward Island is known as 1 ;he "Garden of the Dominion," says :he Dearborn Independent. Nestling ' n the sheltered concave formed by i :hc southern coast of the Gulf of St. 1 Lawrence and protected from the Atantic by the Cape Breton promontory ind Newfoundland, its quiet is never 1 seriously ruffled by ocean storms. Continually bathed by ozone-laden sea tir, its climate knows neither extreme scat nor coal and is pleasant, healthy ind invigorating. Its summers are jellghtfully cool and its winters are enjoyable and bracing without com'ort. There are now 3.000 foxes on Frinco Edward Island farms. One ranch .vhich the writer visited held 00 breeding pairs and 70 more for killing for their pelts before Christmas. The industry has reached a stage which eniblcs it to support its own literature, i paper called the "Silver Fox Magazine," having a considerable circulation. l'rince Edward Island fox furs have now as established a place in the markets of the world as California peaches or Brazilian coffee, and the success which has attended their farming has resulted in similar rancfi;s being established on the Canadian I mainland and at various places in the | l/niled States, chiefly in Maine and Michigan. This industry has the promise ol" great potential wealth and is regarded with great favor hy the dominion and provincial governments which render it various kinds of assistance. And the remarkable thing is that it has been built up in a quarter of a century from a few pairs of wild foxes. It has been feared that extensive production of the silver fox pelt will depress prices; but with a lower price will come increased demand and mass production and it will be a great boon to the people of the northern haif of this continent if good furs can he produced at moderate prices. ? The new First Baptist church at St. George, is he opened Sunday. MASTER OUTLAW SLAIN f iVoii Destroyed South Dakota Cattle , ^ Valued at $23,000. ' ?. ?: \ KILLED BY A GOVERNMENT HUNTER ^ . ' ' ^ Ferocious Beast Escaped from' Many 1 ' Traps?Fipally Killsd After Months " of Pursuit. The Custer wolf Is dead.! T * ^ /S l^nl ils ~ J.U W(is> tiJC liltwici' <JXJU1JUU.L Ui. (.lie luiraal world. For sr-ine years it had :/'? lived as an outlaw?the cruelest, the nost segacious, the most successful . mimal outlaw that the range country c had ever known. Its cruelty was sur- \ ::V passed only by its cunning. It killed svith the refinement' of animal fcro- ^ lity. *^v; Took Heavy Toll. The telephones throughout the re- ':??$ grion around Custer, S. D., hummed 'UiKr tvhen the word went out that a hdnter " ^ nad killed the criminal wolf, relates i Bulletin of the Unltfed States de- ; partment of Agriculture. That word V jnded a nine years' reign of dread. luring which the stockmen around Cluster had paid tribute to ..the wolf to Ihe extent of ?25,O0O worth of live- " ! \'X stock. And mere money loss was not .'-A ihe whole of the horrible toll it took. : J When it killed for food, it took only > .. .he choicest animals^but sometimes it ' t,z ,-vv? cilled in atrocious ways for the mere sake of killing. Often it wounded catlie, breaking their legs, biting off their :ails, multilating th^m terribly. ' . Four years ago Us mate was killed; V - It never took another and many people supposed that it devoted itself to re-' ^ irenge for her death. Later on, it at- ' rached to itself two coyotes, not as J Vjpg jquals, but servants. Never permitted -'J*?. :hcm to come near it, and they could feed from its killed only after it had - : -"fc * finished. They traveled far out on its lanks, giving it warning of ambush or ?.'r5; lpproaching danger and adding to the 'Y'"atmosphere of mystery that surround- - , * & , Every Efftjrt Failed . After a bounty, reaching 9500, railed * .v-v# to bring in the old criminal's 'sca!?;> ' ifter private trappers and sportsmen. hunters had given, up the quest*, after ' poisons and dogs had failicd?the stoclcmen tried to r'ound-?i)?"--^Bayffig;''~ a.3 they thought, located : the wolf a ' large number of riders ' starter4';%*> a"'1'17"" great circle and closed up. This' like all other devices was unsuccessful. tlj Some of the 3tockmen decided to-send for a government hunter. Therefore the department of. agriculture sent to Custer H. P: Williams, one of its best hunters, with instructions to stay af ter the wolf until it was taken. " i' Twice in May, 1920, the wolf 'stepped on the jaws of traps and on' the night of July 3 it rolled into one or lay ' fy down on one and had a lot of its "hair?-^ . 'Af- '-l pulled out. This gave it such a scare '" that it left the country for a whiIe.;'J NTo sign could be found of it hear Custer until the night of August 1,-wheh " '? It made its presence known by killingv several head of cattle and wounding , . several more. Williamson found some V % of these cattle, took the trail of the , wolf and followed it all day. This led. ; '' up to the mouth of a canyon, and, knowing that the wolf would be taking l sleep after its big feed, Williams tied his horse and started in. Just If then two horsemen came up, riding at , breakneck speed and calling to Wil- . . liams that they h~d found a yearling steer killed by the wolf. Williams motioned them to go back but they V . did not understand what he meant and he was forced to return to meet . . them. Thus he lost the best chance . he ever had of getting the wolf with a rifle. When he returned to the trail /, - he found the place where the wolf had r bedded down to sleep. The noise made ' by the horsemen had given it the 'V-1 alarm and it had gone hack down the canyon very close to the hunter and escaped. Caught in a Trap. / Early in September the wolf stepped on a trap and was caught slightly by one foot. Apparently the trap had tipped so that it caught only one side of the foot and the wolf was able to pull loose. He left some hair In the trap. This happened again in the early days of October. Williams finally got the wolf?October 11. Here isvhis own account of it: "He stepped into a trap in the morning: and it got a good, grip on him. He ran with it about 150 yards when the hook caught on a tree, but that did not seem to stop him at all. He broke the swivel of the trap and ran on with it on his front foot. I trailed him three miles and got a shot at him and got him. He had been so lucky that I expected the gun would fall to shoot, but it worked. He was smaller than the average male wolf, weighed ninety-eight pounds, and measured just six feet from tip to tip. IIis tpeth would be good for fifteen years longer. He broke some of them off on the trap, but aside from that f" they were in good condition. He is an old wolf with a fur that is almost white." L ? A verdict of justifiable homicidp" was rendered by a coroner's jury , in Charleston Tuesday in the killing of Kid Grant, a negro pugilist by Street Car Conductor T. A. Williams of Charleston Sunday following an altercation. . j I ilOSlCr , ilium .mi. .1..... . Henry Kiee, Jr., of Wiggins. .S. C.. foremost nat lira list in the south in a letter to-Views and Interviews. in his let'e: Mr. Kiee goes on to say: "There is no way whereby the importance of natural history can so well be brought homo and made a living! force as by teaching it hi the e mnrui s -iioobs and in the colleges. "The lite it of such general knowledge was one of the main causes in the lestruction of our wild life and natural resources. "Away hack in 1S72. when my grand' u' tf Hawtun. a large 1?!:?ute*s- ;i>:?1 a famous shot, used to take m" hunting with him, f ridint; behind him. he had"the rule, never hmken. of killinff "lie partridge for each member of the family?no more, unless I here were guests at the Jiouse. wiien. to have an abundance. he would kid two around. "The roiisecptenco was that hi- piaee always ahonndcd In game. il- t id me t!un that the time \yot:!d twin? when partridges and all ojher piiic would become searee in the state, unless they Wre rigidly protected. This was in is u in jfn?. may see a scijU'-l in the | French si nail*, says a Paris dispatch. Adrodat I leorntiilhc. iilack. and horn) at Cluadalupc, arrived at .Marseilles in! lldu with fifty frailer, in Iiis pocket and v.'tnl t'i work as a ionirslioreman. "When | the war beyan In- invested his savings, in a small sleek of rum a few weeks i before the price of that liijunr shut up. j I Seili'.'itr in:' his first sleek he lr.unrht ; inure, moved to Paris, and within three ' years became the larjctsi dealer in rum in France. In 1:?17 lie signed an enormous con-| tract with the French jjoverr.ment j whereby he supplied ptaeiieally all the rum served to the soldiers in the' tre.tchcs and used in the imr.pitals. During fin* /crip i-pidemic of l!'is lie i is said !> have made $.".(Usfi,fifi!! profit.iluyin^ himself a country mansion near Paris he married a French woman, and j, was made mayor of his community ia I token of lartre benevoJewvs. In November. P'-n, he was prosceut- ; ed hy the pivernmcnt for falsely deeiai iinr his excess war profits under the . I n-w tax law. The case is stjU pending. Meanwhile he has announced himself candidate for the exclusive French sen- i >? t?!? (1:.--:riot uf i iin |Mnsitinn i-i Senator Henry Itereag.-r. 111 writer. wh<> is ciiainmn ??f t';H> senate ? <>niinissh'ii ?.m foreign affairs. I iis supporters nllr.ge his elect i<m is ainto-t certain, since a large proporti >n of the voters in < inrelainpe are enfran-; ciiiseiI Macks. If this liap|)cns lie will ! lie the .'irst negro to-lalte a real in any : riiiuspcaii government. .he university and received. ?400 fori two months of this teaching. Two big oflices in skyscrapers laid been opened and numerous persons employed tu assist the secretary, ail to 110 avail so farj as work was concerned, Mr. Wightman said. Hart Likes Bill. Mr. Hart heartily agreed with Mr. Wightman and read from the budget report where this report had expended 329,0t>l> last year, he said, to "discover that some convicts in York county had left tiic iitl off of :\ slop bucket."' Mr. Mart openly admitted he was absolutely against the board and wanted to see it abolished. T11 reading from the budget report. Mr. Hart said be saw an item relating to a "fiscal agent," and 1 said lie hud never heard of this man, woman or child and didn't believe this "fiscal agent." had ever visited York county. Senator Widcman said, for once In hTs i life he was absolutely in agreement' with Senator Wightman and hoped t<> see the board by the wayside. Senator Young asked the senate not to go 1 mekward and said ho know the hoard was doing good work, lie favored its continuance. Senator Christenscn and. Senator; Maker both pointed oul the need for the J hoard and hmv it had accomplished J more for South Carolina than could be measured in dollars and cents, besides saving to the state actual cash of more : than was appropriated every year. ? W. J"'. fj. Harding, governor of the Federal Ih.serve board has accepted an invitation to address the Creenville Ki wan is club at any early date. i