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/ -' ' * " V T . . v ' . " V r- - , . ' \v :'! ifpi' ; ip >"v' v'> . A ^ ^ ^ SEMI- WEEKLY. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ' . ':. ??i^??_???^"- '/J&Q l. m. grists sons. publishers. ?jt cjjamilg Demspapcr: Jjor fhc |3rom0fion of the political, foetal, Jgricultuifal and (Commercial interests of the $ eople. TE i^^oriEFi^ :J|| p ' ' " 1 " ;'.'''' established 1855 YORK, Si C., KRID AY, FEBRUARY 11,1921. ' ,... .N4&ij|$?. :fM - -g. r^I VIEWS" AND INTERVIEWS ^ Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED IIP BY ENfJUlKER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don'ti'Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "Its almost impossible to get over ' the roads now that the bad weather has set in," said Frank Simrill, manager for the Marshall Oil company, ( . Yorkville. "I sent one of my trucks j over to Hickory Grove last week. It . I managed to get back to headquarters j this week. Another of the trucks was 1 driven to'Guthriesville a few days ago. It was still there Wednesday." Not Paid by the State. t "While I would not be understood as criticising the action of the recent tax- i payers' convention held in yorkville," I said Superintendent of Education John i E. Carroll, Wednesday, "it is a fact t that the salaries of several school of- t ficials whom the convention recom- z mended be dismissed, are not paid by the state of South Carolina: but by the sc General Education Board of New York r instead. Salaries of the following are I contributed by the General Education j . board: I). L. Lewis, acting rural school c supervisor; J. B. Felton, supervisor of r colored schools; B. L. Parkinson, high o school inspector; Mrs. A. R. Brady, t stenographer; Mrs. S. Jackson, ste- r nographer." t New One on the Chief. t v "Heard a new phrase of colored vernacular that I never heard before a day or two ago," said Chief of Police J. Cal 1-1 Steele. e "We arrested three colored men last c Tuesday on a charge of vagrancy. I 11 questioned the men. trying to get a iinc a on their permament place of residence. 1 une ot i tie negroes una me mar nc nao formerly worked in Gastonia for a col- 1 ored woman named Lilly Moore. I ask- 1 ed him what the Moore woman did. " "She runs a long table,' he replied. 1 " 'A long table,' said I, 'whaf is a 8 long table?' 0 " 'Boss.' returned the negro, 'don't J yo' all know whut cr long table' is? fl Why dat's a bo'adin' house fo' nig- 1 gahs.'" n p Every Salesday. . W. A. Sherer, who lives on York No. e 4. was in Yorkville Monday as usual. ]| Mr. Slicrer is a Confederate veteran who went into the service at the beginning of the war, and who was a prisoner for several inonths afterward, having been eapttirod on the day of the -j surrender. He was a good soldier. But what this paragraph is about is this: "You never fail to get to Yorkville on ? sulcsday, do you?" asked Views and Interviews. "Not if I can help it," he replied. "1 ^ count of being sick: but 1 can't say for 1 ^ certain. I have been coming to York- ' viilc each salcsday ever since I can re- p member, and that is a long time in the . estimate of some of you middle-aged men who have been born since I went to the war." v. Recalls Old Days. ;i "I read the story in The Enquirer ^ about the experiences of the late Dr. j Bralton and the Ku Klux Klaus with a ] whole lot of interest," remarked Mr. \V. j j G. Turner of Bullock's Creek township, u who 'was in Yorkville recently. "It brought back vividly to my mind those c stirring (lays. In fact I couldn't sleep ? much the night I read the story for e thinking of the old days. "I was a Ku Klux myself," Mr. Turner went on to say, "but fortunately for me I was never arrested. I was in grave danger of it several times: but somehow or other I always got away. I arn reminded right now of an incident that occurred near Yorkville during those days. I was lying out for several p nights with Mr. William Dobson, now c ! of Gaffnoy. We had been lying out for j t several nights in order to avoid arrest | y at the hands of Federal soldiers. I re- ! t member the particular night that I! r i have ill mind 1 carried an old gun j l, along with me. Along about the nvd-jt die of the night an old owl got to hoot- ; j ing. I was young and that was inoic most mournful doleful sound imugina-Ja bio. I got up and started to shoot the i owl, which I could see by the moon- j light. "About that time Dobson woke up. " 'Whabare \'oii about to do?' he ask- i1 ed me. '1 "'Shoot the.owl,' 1 replied. jr "'Why man you'll have the Yankees 1 on us in no time.' he said. j1 "I hadn't thought of that;-but I re-'-v member 1 didn't shoot the owl." Price of Cotton. There were quite a number of people in the office of the editor during Monday on various errands, some on ac- ]' count of business, some to ask for in- J1 formation on different subjects and 1 some for purely social considerations. ' <?ne visitor, a farmer, after having paid 1 his subscription over in the business : ofliee came back into the editorial i' sanctum and remained until all the 1 others had gone. The office of Views and Interviews is separated only by a j partition, and although Views and Interviews denies any implication ofj eavesdropping he could not help hearing what was said, and he is giving it for what if is worth, which, the editor j says, is Very 'little. The gentleman who j remained behind'the olliers \vas a far-j m'T who (s in good eircumslancrs; but who, like most other folks just now, is puzzled as to what to do. "I wanted to see you," said the farmer, "to ask you what you think about cotton, whether if you were me you would sell?" Now this is a proposition on which the editor is always slow to take responsibility. Mis notion, as Views and Interviews has heard him express it more than once is that, "Cotton 'is a fool ana noooay can ten wnai it is going to do," but also the editor likes to be as helpful to his friends as possible and never tries to get out of giving a fair answer to a fair question, so he :ame brick with this: "I do not feel at all encouraged over the cotton outlook; but as to whether [ would sell or not would depend upon :ircumstances, how much I owed, what [ had in mind to do, and how much it ivould. take to do it. , "How much cotton have you and how nuch do you owe?" continued the cdi;or. "I have twenty-six bales," replied the isitor, "and I do not owe anything, jut it would take about six bales at the irescnt prices to buy some things 1 hink I need very badly and Ihc quesion is whether I shall sell the cotton ind pay my way 01* borrow the money." "Well," replied the editor, "under clrjumstances like that I would not renain in doubt as to what I would do. would simply sell the five or six bales. >ay cash, get what I want and take a ihance on holding the balance. I do lot sec anything that promises much ncouragement for.an upward market; >ut still I know that it can go up alnost as easily as it can go down ana here you are. If you had asked me hat same question last fall I would lave told you not to sell unless you re re obliged to. I believed then as l to now that the world is hungry for very bale of cotton there is in cxistnce, and I hoped, then that long before tow trade channels would be open gain and prices would be good. 1 still hink that the world is hungry for-all he cotton there is; but from the way hingx arc going commercially, indusrially, economically," politically and fiancially. there is no telling when hings arc going to get better. If you ell all your cotton now you may have r>rasinn to roerct it later on, and if ou don't sell it all now you might have ccasion to wish you had sold. But, as have said, with the eotton mine, and lot needing the money with which to ay debts, I would hold." , ? "I was thinking that I would "sell nough cotton toj;ct what I want ann old this ba'anco," said the fainter, and that is what 1 will do." VALENTINE DAY NtAR. "he Lorn Youth Hunts Up "Poetry" and Tokens for His Sweetheart. Bright red silk stockings, cloaked on he side'with hearts of the same shade, rill be the votive offering at lhe feet of ne Baltimore maiden on S*t. Vulenine's day, says the Baltimore Sun. The lockings were purchased yesterday at Charles street shop by a youth who aid ?10 for them without blinking an ye and who strutted out feeling sure hat he had in his brief possession the lost up-to-date valentine to be had in he city. Just what the maiden who .ill receive them will do with them Iter she gets them was a detail which ?#i r.,,< a.-.rm tn disturb the youthful) urchascr or the shopkeeper. For the most part, however, valenines have reverted to normalcy. The biquitous post card is more ubiquitus than ever with impossible cupids, osturned in anything' but a "moral own," delivering themselves of sugurd words to this effect: 1 love you true, sweetheart of mone; Oh, come and be my valentine." Or this: You're sweeter by far than honey sweet clover: You are my valentine. I am your lover." v Looks for Big Demand. To the shopkeeper all the world is a dlypnp and the valentine is its propht. This man lias laid in a. supply of hem so large that it was calculated esterday that if all were placed end o end in a single row, an able bodied nan, walking 15 milts a day, could folaw a trail of Hum that would lead to he land \\Jierc palm trees wave and irohibition holds no terrors. Each saccharine lump is disguised as a child, nd one with a face of lime-green hue lad these lines underneath: "If you b>ve me like I love you. "1 will lie your hdlypop true." For the rare lover who "hones." as hey put it down in Dixie, to take his air lady to a cottage entirely surounded by a lot 50 by 150 feet, there is lie seed valentine, which lias at least lie virtue of being practical. On one cirie there is a sentiment to this effect: 'For two who love each other true, Too long we both have tarried. S.> lettuce us jump hum wre cm l And k" uut to bo married." The thirists ami the candy shops will, if course, do the usual valentine I nisiless. A basket ol' spring (lowers, one if the most potent of valentines, willj rust ?'j or ?S, but corsage boui'jucts of; i'io!ets and sweet pons m.iy be had furl is little at ?l.r.'?. The candy box, of | course. is a red heart or a golden ar- , row and camly will cost from $1 to $- ! i pound. ? The Seattle chamber of commerce is in receipt of a letter from an enterprisin.tr .lapanpse who wishes to purchase brewing machinery of American brewery owners. lie states thai 'breweries of this conn try .must lu< totally wounded by the law of temperance," THE CATAWBA INDIANS Special Committee Files its Report With Governor Cooper. WOULD GIVE THEM FULL CITIZENSHIP Old System of Single Chief Now Done Away With?Catawbas Governed by Committee of Three?The Committee Would Give Them Additional Land? About 135 on the Reservation. Recommendation that the full rights of citizenship be given the Catawba Indians is embodied in the report of the special committee on Indian affairs, recently appointed by Governor Cooper. The committee has completed its report and filed the same with the governor. The commission in its report points out that the Catawba Indian is a ward of the state and therefore must be properly cared for. The commission recommends that the state purchase additional lands, giving a tract to each ' family, provide adequate houses, churches and. schools, furnish equipment, employ an efficient agriculturist to teach them to properly farm and , furnish funds for putting them on their ( feet. For the aged and infirm members of the tribe, who cannot work and have , no younger members of the tribe to ^ whom they can look for support, it is recommended that adequate provision , be made for. their care during life. : Bus/ Several Weeks. The commission, composed of W. M/ . Dunlap and \V. H. Hope, of Rock Hill, | and R. S. Stewart of Lancaster, has been engaged in their investigation for some weeks. During tha ttime members have taken testimony of scores of persons who are familiar with conditions existing at the reservation and ^ the information thus obtained aided materially in arriving at a recommen- 1 dation. Members of the Indian tribe j were also interviewed and the entire ( membership held a meeting at the reservation, at the request of the commls- , sion, and formulated a request for a , settlement. All of this data was taken , and given -close suiuy oy me commas- , sion before arriving at a decision. In ( their recommendation to the legislature ( the commission in part follows the desires of the members of the tribe, but the settlement desired was as a whole, ( regarded as unreasonable. Those who j arq fWiiliar with the situation are of ( the opinion that the recommendations j furnished about the best solution of the j problem. The consensus of. opinion is that It would be useless to continue to furnish an annual appropriation as in the past and that if land was given in fee simple it would be traded. As one * man expressed it, the Catawbas are ^ simply children of the state and must be dealt with as children; th'e governing body controlling affairs until the , members of the tribe have been educated in habits of thrift and self support. The annual appropriation by the state has served to make many of the j members more shiftless than before, as members who have left the reservation and embarked upon their own initiative have made good. All of the testimony taken by the commission has been submitted to the legislature, with the request that the members acquaint themselves with the facts in the case, thereby enabling them to more intelligently act upon the recommendations for a settlement. Favor Full Citizenship. The report recommends that the Indians bo given lull citizenship and the privileges of voting, a right that lias heretofore been denied them; that the present reservation be maintained and that the stale provide a building for a school, maintain and pay a white teacher with a first grade certificate, to give instruction to the children for nine months in the year; also that a building for religious worship be maintained: that at least 500 acres of land adjoining the reservation be purchased and that the entire tract be divided into 75 acre tracts, on each of which there would be a suitable dwelling, barns, etc., farming implements, horse or mule and cow and a tract allotted to J the head of each family; that a trained and competent fanner be secured for a period of throe years to instruct the Indians in modern farming1 methods; if at the end of five years the family proves itself capable of sustenance that a deed in fee simple be given to the tract, otherwise the family is given the option of returning to the reservation without future aid from the state; that after the period of five years the state will appropriate only such funds as needed for the care and support of the aged and infirm members of the tribe, so as to make them comfortable for the rest of their lives. It is also recommended thai a commission of three ho appointed to have entire charge, control mid management of the reservation and lands hereafter purchased.: also all appropriations hereafter made, schools and all buildings and not hampered in any way in the use of the I funds or the management of Indian af- j lairs by legislative authority. The commission also recommends j ..tat tlie appropriation this year lie $7,- j 300. the same as last year; decreasing i it to $7,000 next year anil thereafter onj iy such sum tis needed for the support ; .if the aged a nd infirm members of the t .tribe. In Nature of Experiment. This will be more or less in the nn- ! tare of tin experiment, says the commission, and if adopted, the state must select thrro gnod men in whom it has implicit confidence, as the affairs must be administered in a practical way and common sense must be the guidjh'g spirit in the adjustment of each difficulty that may arise. It is believed that the recommendations will meet with the approval of the more intelligent members of the tribe, as it will them an opportunity to uplift themselves, which has heretofore been lacking. It will also provide an incentive to development into useful citizens, especially the com-r ing generation. There are now about 135/members on the reservation and they are governed by a committee of three, the old system of "chief" having been abolished several years ago:^They are at present not amenable to state' law, except in * 1? ?? ? nf rtrfmna AnfoMa Hie CUlIJiJUSaiV/ll VI wuva.us. reservation and felonious offenses on the reservation, all difficulties being carried before the committee whicn metes judgment to offending members of the tribe. CONVICT WOMAN MOONSHINER. Scowls at Accusers and Says They Didn't Tell the Truth. Mrs. Sarah Glass, aged 50 years, an alleged pioneer moonshiner of Pickens county, who several months ago is alleged to have killed the man who reported her to the Federal -a-uthorities, was convicted of violating dry laws in United States court Monday after a sensational trial in which she cast meaning glances at her accusers and remarked that "they'd, better be careful what they swear: about me," relates the Atlanta Journal. Judge W. B. Sheppard, of the northern district of Florida, presiding for | Judge Samuel H. Sible "in the criminal iivision, imposed a fine of $50. "I coul^l give you six years in the penitentiary for what you have done,' jaid the court, "but you seem to have irouble enough on your'hands now, so ['m going to let you go back to the nountains." A smile swept over Mrs. Glass's face ivhen the jury's verdict' was read. Then she turned in her seat and looked it the "revenooers" who had testified igainst her. "They didn't tell the :ruth," she said tersely, as her counicnance darkened. Prohibition Officers "William Mclvinmy and A. C. Sewell described the raid >n the home of the woman and told low she drew a shotgun on them and leclarcd she would "die and go to hell pefore she would allow - her homo to 5c searched." Charoe. Tearing their way into her mountain uibin, the officers feaid they found a imnll distilling outfit in the kitchen md a supply of apple pomace con:ealcd in her barn, together with other nash, made ready for distilling. "I ain't made no whisky," asserted VIrs. Glass. "I was getting ready to nake vinegar when the revenooers :ame. I have to run the farm to support my children and I don't have time :o make whisky." The evidence against the woman was :ircumstantial. and her attorney, Turner State Senator Roscoe Pickett, of fasper, Ga., argued to the jury that 'her statement was' sincere and was 'rce of any attempt to conceal anyhing." The attorney said he had dis:ussed the case with Mrs. Glass many limes, and that she had clung stead'astly to her story that she intended to Ijstill nothing but apple vinegar. "You know how these mountain folk ire," he argued, "and if she were guilty )f moonshining, she would have conidod in me and told me all about it. tier statement is worthy of your careful consideration.", Mrs. (ilass declined to discuss with lewspapcr men the details of the tragedy which followed her arrest, in ivhich she is charged with killing J. H\ Holcombe, of Pickens county. Attorney Pickett said he understood she crushed Holcombo's brain with a heavy pole when he went to her home in a drunken condition and sought to create disorder. Revenue agents said,she killed IIolcombe because he reported to the prohibition department that she was mak- | lug liiiuor. An indictment recently was Found by a Pickens county grand jury, charging murder, and Mrs. Glass is to face trial in Jasper, (la., early in March. CALF WAS DROWNED Fell Into Hole In the Road and Loct Its Life. John D. Cade, one of the leading citizens of Jit. Cnrmel, was in the oily today, and while passing the Anderson Daily Mail office*stopped iii to pass the time of the day. Conversation got. to had roads, and Jlr. Cade told this story: "I have never told a lie in business or otherwise with intention to deceive. When I do tell one I make it so big that no one could possibly believe it, but this is what happened on Thursday: On the road leading from Jit. Cnrmel to Abbeville, near the Abbeville-JlcCormick. county line, a calf was meandering down the road and stepped into the hole in the middle of the road and was drowned. A number of passers-by. who had to .detour to Ret by. can vouch for the story." The section referred to is in the nutwoods belt, which crosses tlie two counties in this section, and it is a well known fact that this is the slick- j i"st kind of mud known, besides when a big hole appears in the roml it I seems lo have no bottom. , THE NEWS OF SHARON . . . _ > Yearling Was Killed When Struck by : a Bolt of LighWiifp.; ^ NEGRO ARRESTED ON LHjU^R pRGE Roads are in Terrible Condition1?Applicants for Postmasters hip- Still on Waiting List?News. and*. Notes of Metropolis of Western Yb'rk County. (By a Staff Correspondent). Sharon, Feb. 10?A bolt of lightning T* n if e CfettnnnM of nn/1 Jrtfifhilf J. UUOUttJf ULlClllUUll oil UL1\ auu UiOU1IXL" ly killed a yearling, the property of Mr. Sidney Gourley who lives near Blairsville school house. The yearling was out in the open at the time it met its death. A heavy electrical display followed. Walter Wilson Arrested "Walter Wilson, colored, was arrested Tuesday by Constable Moffatt McKnight of Broad River township-on a warrant charging him with .manufacturing liquor and having an ownership in a distillery. Wilson gave bond in the. sum of ?500, the bond being furnished by Capt. J. M. Sims. Wilson is charged with being associated in the moonshine business with John Crosby, a colored farmer arrested at his home on the R. H. G. Caldwell place near here last Saturday when officers found parts of the necessary Daranhernalia for making moonshine. Wilson could not be located" at that time. Consequently his arrest did not follow until Tuesday. Roads in Bad Condition. Not in years have the roads of Bullock's Cheek and Broad River townships been In worse condition than they are at the present time. All automobile traffic has been, virtually suspended for the past few days and people who have been traveling in buggies claim that better time could be made by walking. The roa'd between Sharon dnd Hickory Grove is one vast bog. According to Arthur Whitesides, an automobile belonging to Rev. Carl McCully, pastor of Woodlawn Presbyterian church got stuck while coming down the hill at the home of R. "W. Hope a few days ago. It was necessary to have four mules to puli the machine down hill, according to Mr. Whitesides. The main street of Sharon and all the' other streets of the town are a series of mudholes. ..It has been impossible for several days past to- oross the street without getting- niuddyr It is the stickiest kind of sticky mud everywhere. A Sharon lady told the correspondent Tuesday evening a story of two young men of Sharon who recently started to call on two | young- Indies in Bullock's Creek township. Upon reaching tho door of their destination one of the y<\ung men undertook to pull off hisSivershoes. To his surprise he had none, having lost them in the mud while approaching the house. A Sharon man suggested Tuesday the probability that a bond issue for cement sidewalks and paved streets if put before J.he voters of tho town right now, might pass. No Word About Postmastership There is yet no word in regard to the appointment of a new postmaster of Sharon, according to Postmaster William G. Caldwell who was asked about the matter. All of the applicants who took the examination for the place arc still on the anxious list. 'I hardly expect there will be any appointment here until President Harding takes office," Mr. Caldwell told the correspondent. Still Ginning Cotton. Seed cotton to be ginned still comes to Bhnmn Thorp n i-o senrps nf hales in the fields in the community that will not be picked. "I am expecting to gin about 150 more bales of cotton," John S. Rainey, proprietor of a ginnery here said the other day. Few Fertilizer Inquiries Still there are practically no inquiries from farmers about fertilizers according to Sharon merchants interviewed on the subject. A little cotton seed meal and acid has been sold but very little. "The farmers are just not interested on the subject of fer^ tilizer and we just don't care either,' remarked one merchant. Residence Sold Mr. Kirby Bankhead of Sharon has sold his residence here to Mr. Clyde Potts. Mr. Bankhead, however still occupies the property. Mr. O. M. Spurlin has about completed the work of remodeling his dwelling. Municipal Election. With the election of town officers loss than a month away, .there is stil! no candidate' in the field for the of tice of mayor of Sharon. "I guess we will do again like we have been doing," said Mr. R. R. I'lexico, clerk of the council who was discussing the matter. "Really no body wants the job of mayor here. The place carries no salary and is a lot of trouble. Heretofore it has been the custom to nominate some good man at the last moment and elect him and then trust that he will consent to serve. I guess we will do that again." Of Personal Interest Miss Sarah Russell, a student at Rock Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Russell of Bullock's Creek recently underwent an operation for append icil is at the Fennell Infirmary, Rock Mill. She is reported as getting along nicely. Information from Mr. John T. Wylie. formerly assistant cashier of the First National Rank of Sharon is that he la getting along nicely. Mr. Wyllc is at Lake Saranac, N. Y., undergoing treatment for a lung; affection. Mrs. G. W. Whitesides who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy McGill at King's Mountain, N. C. has returned to her home here. The little son of MY. and Mrs. L.. C. Street, is critically ill with pneumonia. Misses Margaret and June Turner, oty Winthrop College were recent visitors here the guests of Miss Pauline Turner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hayes. Misses Rebecca Saye and Pennlnah Cain recently visited Mrs. Edward Byerg at Blacksburg. Messrs. J. L. Rainey and P. B. Ken nedy left Tuesday night for Columbia to attend a state taxpayer':-", convention In that city on Wednesday. GOING UP. Noted Financial Writer Read the Business Barometer. Going up!* The Saturday Evening Post of the issue-of January 29 was of 112 pages, exclusive of covers. The issue of- next Saturday, February 5; is of 148 pages, exclusive of covers. ; If anything is barometric of business in general it would seem to be the advertising volume in a publication of national circulation, writes Richard Spillane. This is particularly true of the Saturday Evening Post, for the bulk of its advertising is of needful thlnn>e> fnnilo rrtOrl mn t Oftfl 1 CI Ql"lQ T1Q WSIIIgO, IUVUC| 1 VMU ?MU.bv? V^W|#W, oils, machinery, lamps, automobiles and automobile accessories, clothing, house furnishings, shoes, .farm materials, toilet articles, construction materials, insurance companies, musical goods, watches, belting, hardware, electrical utilities, etc. In general, it can be said the articles are those of wide use; articles that are needful, articles that, broadly speaking, are not in the luxury list. If that statement is correct, it would seem to follow that the supplies of those goods see today such proof of a better demand for their products, as | warrants them in going after business, in the way that business, men have learned to' know brings- results. Thai is by advertising. ; Dn't get the idea that the situatipn is altogether satisfactory. In fact, condition^ are what some persons describe as "tj^otty." Many factors enter into consideration. Many manufacturers andrdistrib.utdes-aPC... djoubtfuly?-irrejjoj- < iute. Some, are inclii^ii to cancel' con-;, tract. Some are quite hopeful. The pronounced increase in the advertising between the two issues of January 29 and February 5' would indicate the nnmhor of the doubtful is lessening and that of the hopeful or confident increasing. That is a cheering sign. Apparently we are Going Up. v You may see some recession from the size of this we,ek's issue of the Saturday evening Post. One swallow does not nrnke a summer. There are "hangovers'' from the late unpleasantness. A nation, like a human, does not at all times makes a quick and complete recovery from a serious illness. Occasionally, in the period of convalescence, a person feels stronger than he is. Not Infrequently it takes months to get the poison out of the system. The present upward trend may be only a temporary manifestation of improvement, but there can be no question that the general attitude of the public is reflected as accurately by advertising as by any other method. Business as a whole has been at a low level. In this country of remarkable consumptive power it would be surprising if it remained at a low level over an extended, period. We are not out of the woods, but we are getting in the open. Confidence is returning. There ma> w- enthanirs. Rut. in eeneral, UC duillb .... _ there^ is no doubt that definitely and positively the business skies are clearing. Look forward. Don't bother about any slight reactions, if any occur. The turn has come. No better proof could be presented than furnished In the pages of the Saturday Evening Post. More men give service to their fellow men and go through life without the recognition their good work deserves than ever will be known. An instance of this is furnished in the case of Henry Peterson, of Boston. He is 78, and now he has quit his job because of his age and physical disabilities. He has been one of the staff of the Industrial Aid Society and for 40 years lias given all of his time to helping men to obtuin work. Never in all that period has he accepted pay. Never in the 40 years has he taken a vacation. When he began to hunt for jobs for others lie was the only person in Boston giving such service without compensation. He found Jobs for 113,698 men and women, and in this service he has walked thousands of miles and brought hope and cheer into the lives of numberless persons. He needs no monument. He has builded olTfe by his acts. ? To save several trains of cars from destruction from fire at the winter quarters of a circus in Bridgeport, Connecticut, recently, three elephants were pressed into service. The animals quietly pushed the trains out of danger and then returned to their quarters, THAT PROVIDENCE PAJM '' >?? ; 1 ?;<1.I i . ; vi-JC"- - ; r Gastonla Han BeUernj^n^ ^ mint is an leaped; Coyofii.;'p wulf is propi KnToTcRoirv wif.sejH t; !, L; $ Habits and Description Tally Exactor - r. With Description of . Cotfcte?wp^ '0} Sent to Gaston from Texas-^traiigsh Animal Is Still a 8ubjeci of'Interest. That the "Providence panther,'%0Vt ' f-Vj whatever the varmint is tlmt'hiE^^W(ei^f causing so much taik ih- CB^riotte \:r?t Mecklenburg county for past weeks, is a *pa?tial prodtj^"'pt 0,4sWhv county is the theory late(y^Vanced??iiy; :'}?$ Gastonia, says the Gastbnih-^zett'ei^bfv'. Tuesday. It is beliey^/^e^J.'that tfiie v?j| strange animal :Sff>. , . much commotion ac^oj?{;j^Ktt?lverV' If*' nothing else than tl&i^eraapj coyot^J }. shipped to Gastonia' sotn'sjltyo ' . "?/$, ago or more to Mr. CilpwOWl&nj fofij; ;_! merely manager of here. The animal esdcpeS; ifroA', cap&v**-. .??> lty here and, was last' s^njor,Gaston county down Jjh/tii& ''BowHfafr;- - 7^ Green section more thana "ye?&- ago;'.it- .g will be recalled too, thai ^here-werjfc^e?, r&|| series of stories in The Yorkville Ba^i Mm quirer of a strange anlmai haying atrcii m mc JJCVU04Ij < qQwv?viv QVMIV*. '"l*F-l>V? months ago. It is ri^Wie'vied !vpf? the Mecklenburg varmint ' aiid -ESp r~t:04i Crown Wilson's coyote,are one same. It is said'by those familiar with,;. the animal's habits that it has prbba- i bly ranged up and down Crowder'a" ' creek in Gaston and York counties'up-' til it came to the point "at Wright's fei^' ';hj~0A ry where Crowder's creek empties' ift(oj the Catawba river, and that .it mm the Catawba river and took up its hkbLtat in Fort Milt and Providence tois^i.' Ships. ~ v: '?,?*$!. 'r-0 The coyote was sent to Mr. Wilson by.;', friends in Texas and was kept, by for sometime in the rear, of the' AfTO*. J 53 ingtbn hotel. - It was th'e ohject pf mtnyjr cudiosity to natives of ^his" w^ion.^li^; description of the anipu(f J the Charlotte papers .taU&tL that of the beast sept' tqV4^^h?h, Wilson said that the cbyptp^d^l^'d;^^,."about the size of a dpg^-g^V and had sharp-pointed earyl(ke %\yrofpC . ! It fed on raw He estimates ttet it; Something, like 25.'o^'3Q^jpj^a^^^o<^ ';:Vy^ confined in .the ba-ck ' H* described it: L ;'23?i r.ln'g and ,SAgaCl^>Wa^/-h,4?ThUtf" was chained- to1 a. wWJ?1JI8R?W^ across the yard. A 'rfWiV^|trtfie fcbj&frif( .a? and collar permitted the^RInhLl a..cdt& v: tain amount of freedb^LY^rv;\^fla<^-* 'if '!;-$ said that the animal the length of the chqin'^d&ow V i would permit him en it would be lying ' ~'Si and' apparently . asleep! .* vbift.*.^reaJ^y^ watching the unwary c kicki*.-, -'4 as the bird came within'rdrij^e, the agiji- .. ^ mal with a flying leap /vyhUldi. 'QQpfijjfr'. '4^ upon the chicken and eat it: .. yJQtyS-f /vyj The animal escaped froth 'ita; p/idoar .. ^ and made its way into:'the EH)Uthfi*ji'' .'l. '/si part of the county where it ^^repo^,'. ' ed to have devoured chtykeJi^jtodVpiiifij. Hunting parties werfe fbrt$ed? aid;'\jfr~- . was chased several tlthfesi.'mit ni^ dogf.!; were ever found who would giy^' It' fight. Hunters knew by sbuhd^&?{< the hounds when a tot waa'being <?Ha4:J ed and when the coyote the. quar- ^ ' ry, said Mr. Wilson. f. ' .. '-ii, "When an old fox hound ,Htri4ea?!thW" . ^3 trail of a fox, he settles ''flown. 'for W long chase. He stretched himself .-m almost flat on the ground.ahd,prepares for an all-night run. His baying, is.iott^' ; V?|| drawn out and has a self-Stttisfled'toHo. 4H in it. You have heard the characterls-''' ;M ,?,? t.? -'3 HC UctyillJj Ul lUA JLi'J LillVJD. iJUbf tt , 7r-^ they struck the trail of this , coyote/ 'dj their tone changed instantly. The dogs sounded as if they tV6rfc mad. stead of the long dVawn olit musid^ baying there was a sharp, staccatofct* \ ij barking and yelping and they went^t; the job as if they wanted to finish itiiir a hurry. ,, ; "I believe that the. coyote, I had has' made its way down the creeK past Riddie's and Davis's, mills th'rbugh the} .'~0. Point section of Gaston and IOrk coring ties and gotten over into Mecklenburg. county. From what I hhve.-.fead aboifr ' > their 'panther,' I believe that they aro after the same animal/' Mr. Wilson also said that the move?*: ments of the "panther" lh crossing^ ' "'i fields in long graceful jiimph were alsocharacteristic of the coyote'as he hadt' ' seem them on the prairies of Texas. . " DIAMOND WORKERS1 IDLE ")? ;; . . .>?. ' ft ... Many Thousands Out of EmploymentsBecause of Slump In- the Market. '> - ''j*. Nearly 8,000 of the 10,800 member^ ' of the Diamond Workers union at" . Amsterdam Holland are Idle and the. . -U bottom seems to have fallen out of . ,7 "? the world's diamond market Experts; . in precious stones in this city and; in Antwerp say an era of financial string?. ency has supplanted the epoch of free spending to such an extent that pc#* clous stones have become a drug, on the market, although prices are being! maintained. >" The industry received a seripus blow through the Russian revolution as that country was the greatest buyer 7 of ; $ gems. Austria and Germany then f^tl jj out. and now the depression, in Amey.iL , : ca has cut off the last great mayjfjpt for diamonds. In addition, a number of gems formerly owned ;|jj; . Russia have been placed on the. . , -,V et by the Bolshevik! and the output .* ;r, of new stones has been Curtailed-, .... '. . -.V V?X J \ V'\j|