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, : .... . 1 ^ " ^ ^SUED SEMI- WEEKLY. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ '' . ' ?.' / J ' .'' ' ~ y, ^ ??1^??^^?? ^^ ?SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS"SSS?55w?y^'-j l. m. grist's sons, publishers. $ <$amilij Hfeffispapcr: $>r tlu. ?romotioit of the political, Social, ^tgrirulturLat and Commercial interests of the |)eogl$. ESTABLISHED 1855 " 7 YORK, S. C., FRIDA.Y, FEBRUARY 18, 1921. 7 ~ ~~ ' -*C . ? ? , ' ' ' ' ~=Z iv.^ VIEWS AND INTEBVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of. Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. Magistrate It. L. A. Smith, of Hickory (Jrovc. was in V'orkville Monday 011 business. When asked as to the news he said, "I have, nothing; that f can toil you now; hut when the roads dry up a little I will probably tti.'e you something to print." The Wca'thcr. "Weather the lirst three days of this week," siti<l a Hickory Grove farmer who was in Yorkvilie yesterday, "kind of brought to me that feeling that it was time to turn the earth over and get something in the ground. "Why you know I could just smell the fresh turned earth. LJut I guess I'm too early with my fancy yet a few weeks." King's Mountain Roads. "The roads in King's Mountain township are getting in pretty bad condition as a result of the heavy rains of the past several weeks," said yesterday a King's Mountain township man who was in Yorkvilie. "Passing of heavy automobile trucks over the roads has not done them any good; hut has. made matters worse by cutting them up while tl^ey were in muddy condition." Something In It. "Well," said the observant citizen. ^ ' I think there is something in this squib which I ran across the other * day in a paper called Hie Monte Vist: (Colo.) Graphic Reporter. Read it:" Seven-cents hogs, -13-cent pork and f.O-cent hums, 5.2 com uwi <n im$11 to $11 to the consumer. The ghosts of old Jesse James. Jim Dalton and Hilly the Kill will please lead the choir in sinking "Onward Christian Soldiers." Busy With Valentines. Postmasters at all the York county offices noticed an increased volume of business last Monday because of St. Valentine's day. Hundreds of valentines were dispatched in-the day's mail and carriers and clerks had many extra packages to deliver. "I don't think 1 ever hud a greater demand for valentines than 1 did last Friday and Saturday," said, one York .county dealer.in stationery. "Wo sold something over '.(in v-iii.ntim> oust, cards an?l valentines in other foiuis. it was unite a busy ; time* lor us." Only Three Survive. { "I noticed the other day a statement I l?y Captain M. M. I'ufnrd of Newberry, that only three members of Co. K, Fifth . South Carolina Cavalry, still survive." said yosterdiry a Confederate veteran who keeps up With the thin line of vetH i rans. "One of those survivors is Capt. DBn Huford and another is T. A. JelTurd, of Orangeburg, while thenuine of the third was not given in the list I saw. Tin company was originally made up H|H men from tlx- counties of Chester. Lau-; |MfB i ons. Newberry, Spartanburg, and York n m Following .am tlic York county men I Bj Hp now dead, who were members of tin j HBv company: First Lieut. Kdward Moore.! H .1. .M. Carothers. M. 1J. Garrison, it. A. H^g .Miller, \). I). Mono, Julius Mill, James JU^S It. Miller, John S. Sadler. W. It. Sadler j S. X. Sadler. I\. IJ. Sadler, William .M. I i' ii v..one. Hf Walker, .1. li. \viiuaiii.'.t.n, i. ... - H Principles of Road Buildir.g. r "One thing, that puzzles me about |V tin- road question," said -Mr. Adger W Huey, who was in Yorkvilli* Tuesday. 9 "i.^ that so few of those charged Willi | responsibility in this connection* seem f tVi have any idea of the lirst and most r important principle?drainage. Mr. Hney lives in the "hlackjack country." lie said that he got along very well until almost within I lie ineo;*p? irate limits of Vorkville and then he got stuck '? a piece of road that was plowed up b> the state highway commission last fall, and which has been irilpassable ever since. "The roads in what is known as the blackjack country." .Mr. lltiey continued. "arc not anything like what they used to he and taken altogether they are better than in many other s< etioiis. It list d to he thai ymi could not got through the blackjack country d.ir' -"...i- ..i* in., winter. Yon I UK I'tTlitlll I?.-| know that country is !<?w and Hat and ilillicult of drninatfO at best. Well during the past few >(-ill's our pcupi. buve l<urnrd to drain tlx; roads on tin* sides rat lit* r than Ihrouuii tin- mid.lhs and now wt* have pretty good traveling in the worst of weathers.. Tlirv tell nie that the Chester road down here is mostly a hit;' diteh through tin* middle w ith no ditches on, the sidi s. If Uu* read had heeti properly drain* *il it won lit he in pretty good shape." Remembers the Jim Williams Raid. Mr. Milns S. Carrol!, of tin* Cotton ! ll' li neighborhood, was one of the Kit Klnx-of the early 70's and was a member of the lailinu* party tiiat Initio Jim Williams, or Jim liainey. At the reipnr.t of Views and Interviews a few lays ago, he to|*l some of his rerolJ**elii*ns of the famous raid. "It was not my umlorsLiinlin:;." le said, "that Williams was: hanged more rsspeeially heeau.se nf his threats; le murder, "from the eradle to the /r.ive." We had heard ahonl sneh threats lei smile lime; hut I cannot say that \v< to*.!; |hem with esperisil s -i euisiies:;1. "The troie;!e here wys that ll.it *> i ! . S .,. S t < -' ! 1 ,ic:; siumoernm nero One William l<uUe; 11* heard tin* hell Ihil had no hralte. Detroit New.1:. At fitly miles I'llnve Ollie I'idd, lie llioup'hl ho woilldn'l Skill, hut did. ?K'line, (N*. Y.) Times. [ Al ninety miles Drove Kdward Shawn; The motor stopped, I Silt I'M kept on. ? Little KnlIn. (N*. V.) Times. j. Coder the sod Lies Deacon llal.e; ! lie winked and drank i Some " ;inv;i,i' ale." ? I'ttica IS. Y.) I 'l ess. I j Here he sleeps, i One .'lolinny l-'oanker; I le rounded a turn Without a honker. ?.Johnson City Iteeord. K11 Klux grabbed (lie ftody of Williams ami swung an to it with I ho idea of inure ipiickly breaking his neck, is that true?" \ "No that is not true," snid 1STr. Carrail. "There was nothing of the kind. "After, the hanging:." continued Mi:. Carroll, "we got together* again and proceeded over toward 'Ttrnttonsville. i where we found an abundant lunch j waiting. I'.ui just before we got off our horses somebody asked how many guns we had captured, and somebody suggested that the captured guns be held up. Ivver.v man who had a capturned gun held it up. and the count showed Dial we had twenty three of I hem. Little Songs of Safety First. she had nut see a liini that, night; that he had gone away without, telling where he was going. Some one suggested that they look under the floor. The suggestion was acted upon inime-/ dirtely and after two or three plank:/ had keen torn up we found the militia captain. A rope was put around his neck as lie lay there under the floor and he was led into the nearby woods. Here one of the Kit Klux dim bed the tree with the end of the rope in Ida hand and Williams was made to climb the tree after him. Then tin- Km Klux after ticing the rope to the limit told Jim to jump off. Jim would not jump and the Kii Klux pushed hint off. "1 have olten heard." remarked Views and Interviews, "that one of the whites generally had become nervous and impatient because of the constant drilling and parading of the militia company under Williams, and the loose irresponsible talk of the negroes. You ran very well imagine that our nerves were pretty - well overwrought anyway, and we had stood as much as we could, it had been suggested somewhere that those rifles must he j taken ava.v fiom Williams, and the suggestion had met with unanimous approval: but as yet no definite action had been decided upon. One day. thepe came a well-cstinblishcd report that Williams had said that if the Kit Klrix ever canto after his suns they would never get away again. That report vent like wildfire, and with it went an order to gather at the "Brier Patch" and other places that night, t was along with the others, and a short distance before entering the McConnells.vilie country, L rode a little ahead, got down from my horse and counted the crowd. There were S4 of us in all. "Being familiar with the country, T was placed in charge of a detail to make a search for guns. We did it pretty thoroughly. But few of the militiamen were at home: but in most rases th< ir women handed the guns out the doors, and we had no trouble. "The object:.: of tlie raid were to get the guns, bang Jim Williams and whip Bill McCoaneli. Bit! McConnell was not at home and could not lie found. When we went to the house of Jim Williams we found only his wife there. On being asked about Jim. she said LANDIS, DIAL AND WELTY Issues in Quarrel * Between Judge and Congressmen. SENATOR NOT ASHAMED OF RECORD Welty Wants to Know Why It Is That If One Judge Can Be In the Pay of a Defendant, That Is Being Prosecuted, Why Not the Others. Washington Herald, Monday. Senator Dial of South Carolina, last night accepted the defl'-issued. by Federal Judge K. M. Landis, of Chicago, and announced that today he will launch a fight in congress for impeachment of the judge. These proceedings will be based on the fact that the judge released Francis J. Carey, a bank teller, who confessed to the embezzlement of $!)fi,0(J0, which he buried in his mother's backyard. Judge Landis stated that as the bank in which Carey was employed paid, him J-cin ?,,, inatWitintn Klim. I OI1IJ' ^>;iU JJC1 IIIUllllI, II., IHUUVJX it was responsible for his default. Judge Landis intimated that Senator ' Dial's threat made in the senate on Saturday was due to the fact that he, Dial, is a banker and has only the interest of the banks at heart, i-le delied the senator to ^attempt to impeach him. Dial's Statement "Whether I am a banker or not has no bearing on the case," said Senatoi Dial last night. "I may be one thing and 1 may be another. 1 merely want lo say that I am proud of what I am. Anything Judge Landis may say cannot make me less proud." "in an address before the American Legion at Dt s Moines Saturday night, Judge Landis declared that the senator's "background" led to- the attack upon him for "giving fair treatment to a $'J0-a -month hank clerk,, who in a month, handled millions." mi?. "w-icifL'rmind" to which Judge Landis referred is set forth in the senator's official biography published in the Congressional Directory. It lists the senator's business connections as follows: Dial's Record. "Member of the law firm of Dial ami Todd, Laurens, S. 0.; promoter of the Peoples Loan and. Exchange Bank, Laurens; organizer and president of the Enterprise National Bank and the Home Trust company; organized anci interested in other banks and financial institutions; Laurens Cotton Seed Oil Mill; Laurens Glass Works; Laurens Cotton Mills; Laurens Bonded Warehouse company; Georgia-Carolina Power company; Ware Shoals Manufacturing company; Reedy River Power corrfpuny and Sullivan Power company." ' * -1 I.n #.no #1 r I Senator Dial is repuivu n. >JV ... thp wealthiest members of the senate. Stand by We!ty. "Judge Landis must either divorce himself from the flesh-pots or pet off the bench?he cannot serve God ana Mammon!" Representative Henjamln I*'. Welly, of Ohio, declared last night, in return to the "compliments" paid him and Senator Dial by Judge Landis in iiis speech at the American Legion banquet in Dcs Moines Saturday night. "If Judge Landis was justified in accepting a salary of a year from I lie baseball trust v. ben at the same time it had been proved an illegal combine and lined $.r>0.l)00 by the supreme eourt of tin- District of Columbia, then every other judge of the supreme bench is justiflevl in accepting the same salary," the representative declared last i night. . Case Still Pending. Keprisoutative Welty declared thai Hie case was still pending and had boon appealed to the supreme court of tlu* I l'nili d Slates. ) "If the baseball magnates or any oth- j er illegal combination have a right to hire Judge Jgtiidis they have a right to | hire every otlii r judge in the land," j says Welty. j | itepresentative Welty said that he j would ask for an "investigation inline- J I diately of the alleged irregularities j connect" d with Judge Laiulis's aeeepl- j anee of a salary as arbitrator for the baseball people. lie decland that he would invoke an ael passed by eoiigress two years ago which prohibits tin; acceptance of a government official of a salary from a source other than the government of tin* United Slates. Attorney (Sonera I I'.aimer bad informed him by letter, lie said, that this act was net applicable to the judiciary, j but the representative said that lie j would nevertheless ask for another in j I'rpretiUioii. Landis's Statement. Chicago. I'\ liriiiiry ! "! ?.1 Kcn| nesaw At. Laiulis said tonight lie had no fear "of impeachment. Tin; judge had just 'returned from Dcs A!<lines, Iowa, | where lie, had answered erilielsms of I'Senator Dial, of South Carolina, in an I address before ail American Legion [ | Xl.Sl. i The first Ihinjf Judge Landis did was I to read to his audience a biographical J sketch of Senator Dial. It credited the 'sMiator with being interested in a bank j or two. cotton mills and walcrpinver ; projects in South Carolina, ile said: Tells of Fight. "A few years ago, after a tight had been made in this country for lil'ty years, in tile interest of the develojv' incut of nu n and women?particularly j vvoincn. tin* chief detriment wast tic employing of little* girls in cotton mills I down soul li?congress passed a hill to i mill nut oj interstate commerce the I nirniafjctiired products of tlie l.ihor of This ninntisivnt's Jackson I >i 111 k; j His Lix/lc was lighter I Than tlie truck. ?.Scrantonian. ! n??\vu in l lie creek Sleeps Jerry liass; J Tlh* luidip- was narrow. | lie tried In pass. ? Wilkes-1'.a rre Times-Leader. J Tin Lizzie Kuril I Ml < 'liarlolte Itnad 11 < <ii Le<| I iy I Iml^e I in it hers Willi two tires Mowed. "He)p. Lizzie, said they, A:.: they worked away, i We're in a helluva 11 x , lint Lizzie sai,1-"Nix." j Ho'lp'e smiled a tp in, j ' We'll- p.ei ymi in . ; ' >iir own fra'mKe. ; Vmi eamniirja;.;t'." , * *' ' ? La lira: ler News." ! Mai red In I III' .Memory i < if Wiiymn It. Khmle j ilf r:Mi f.imick into A llnli* in tln> lk:iii. : I:? -i-lf I;ir11 lies ! "ill I'll'tlillffll1' (illISS ! lis- p.nl I t in ri;;:ir tun i-lnsf 'I'll till* i.JIS. I:i ;m :t<i.i<>i 11 in*; pint l.ins n|i| Cnil Syru. I lis il? iiiis.- w.is rnusfil i ! I !y n Itiirslfil I iif. j U i slicil n ti-.-ir Km' Tlmtii.'is Tiliitt j i I" tlimiplit In- ruiiM liu:il 'I 'i'Jj . lo'-uniulive In il. t? . . i 1 A woman lias entered the race in .Mississippi lor the United States senate, relates a Jackson, Miss, dispatch. Miss I telle Kearney of Madison county has announced her candidacy for the seat of Senator John Sharp Williams, who has declined to run for re-election. She will be opposed by ex-CSov. Theodore C. Bilbo and exSenator James K. Vardaman. Miss Kearney will make the fight on a platform indorsing' a league of nations, clearly safeguarding America's interest, education, law enforcement, restricted fmmigratior., child welfare, protective legislation for women in industry, ownership of homes, public health, social morality, economy in government, reduction in taxation. federal aid for I'firmers, industrial courts and labor legislation. i plied Golden. "You have already l>een tieated i right, and you treated her like a dog j when you loft her and that baby like I you did." .Judge Sense summoned the woman. "Itring the baby up here," he said. "Now if you don't care to go back, I'll let yon servo a sentence of a year on the ehaingang," the judge told Golden, and reached for his trusty pen. "I'll go back," cried Golden.?Anderson Tribune. WOMAN FOR SENATOR Miss Kearney Would Succeed John eu-.i-n XA/illinms. I lie i iimieiis i rum invii umluii >. ?)> and when the New Year came, Mrs. Golden moved to a farm in this county, where she agreed to work a hoe crop. A short lime after that she issued a warrant for Golden, who had none to live with his father. Golden testified that his wife had mistreated him. He also spoke of improper relations that he believed existed between other men and his wife. He declared that he could not live with Mrs. Golden and maintained that attitude until he was called before the bar yesterday, after having been found guilty of non-support. "Will you go back and live with that woman?" questioned the judge. "I'll go back If she will treat me better than she has in the past," rc Will CUIIig iLbiw UUM M.> ? did, you wilL have to serve the time. Golden gave the clillct t9 his wife and the t\jm ^urned .had' walked down the aisle of the "court Toom,':the baby crying lustily over having to face a circuit judge at the tender age ol' five months. An observer in the window would have seen Golden and his wife go down North Main street, arm in arm. while their live-year-old boy marched beside his dad with a smile of content on his face that seemed to say "Dad's come home!" The case of the state vs. Golden was heard "Wednesday. Mrs. Golden testified that her husband had left n few weeks before Christmas and that she had not seem him until he appeared in court. With only a few pounds of flour and meal, the woman testified that she faced starvation, after their rations gave out. With low-priced cotton, there was no money coming to i- ?' ?brt:.i nrvilAn ornii and the proverbial pin could have been heard had Jt fallen. In front of the bar stood a- man who had been indicted for non-support of his wife and children. Beside him stood his wife with a 5-mpnths-old baby in her arms. Slowly the half-dazed man stretched forth -his arms and the woman half pushed the baby toward, him as the child kicked and wiggled, and started crying. "Yon know that's your child," said the judge to \V. M. Golden. "Now you go home and behave yourself and I'll suspend the sentence of one year that I have passed on you. However at anytime you mistreat your wife and she ...til Kauq nr*r? ClUPB P th.'lt. VOIl little girls and boys, a cotton manufacturer?I do not know whether it was Senator Dial or not?attacked that apt of congress as unconstitutional, and the supreme court of the'United, States, in the exercise of its duty,'under its) path' of office had to hold'that the'law was unconstitutional. < "Those little girls and hoys were employed down there in this mill at starvation wages. They were employed because they were little'girls! and little boys and would work for low wages, and I can't understand, how,' out of all the ninety-six senators in the chamber at Washington, a man with that alignment would attack a Federal judge who would go slow in imposing a sentence upon a $90-a-month'clerk, employed at 19 years of. age, handling $1,000,000 of money in the bank every month." Attacks Dial. Judge Landis, in referring to Senator Dial as being president of the Peoples Loan and Exchange bank and the Home Trust company, of Laurens county, S. C., said: "I think he had better get out of the banking business or else get out of the senate. He also aided in establishing other banks and financial interests, 1 can understand why he is not against this proposition." Judge Landls said he was still undecided what to do with the young bank clerk. "TAKE THAT BABY" Judgo Sease Administers Correct Justice In- Domestic Case. "Take that baby!" commanded Judge Sense. A hush came over the court room BUDGET OF THE , COUNTY ; ['j i'i % ' Delegation Cuts Half a Mill from Leviyrs^iiM APPRnPRllTlilNlji 'flF $Qn.2fi7 IN AM ( i , Building of. Bridge Between York and Mecklenburg. Counties Provided For ?Commissi,onqrs|May Borrow $30,000 If So Much Be>. fYecespary. The county supply bill as passed, last week by the house of representatives for the government of York county during ID21 carries a levy of one-half mill less than was carried by the bill last year. Th^ bill is now in the senate and likely will pass that body and become an act by the latter part of the week. Last year the government of Y'ork county cost the taxpayers for ordinary purposes $107,295. This year the supply bill provides for the expenditure of 0K7 r>y n K mill lew. aa R0R.inst a C 1-2 mill levy for 1920. The various purposes for which the money is to be used are as follows: ! For ordinary county purposes, 6 mills, and a levy of 2 mills fo'r road purposes as provided by 14w. and In Ebenezer township a special levy of 3-4 of one mill; and in Catawba township a special levy of 1 mill; and in York township a special levy of 2 1-2 mills to pay the interest on bonds issued by said township in aid of che Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad, and on bonds refunding same;, also In said townships of Ebenezer, Catawba and York a special levy of 1-2 of a mill as a sinking fund to retire said bonds. The treasurer of York county, for collecting and' disbursing this special levy, shall be allowed the commission as now provided by law. A special levy of 1 mill is hereby levied to repay loan for building bridge across Catawba river, be tween kock tun ami run. jnm, tw !,vided for In the act of 1917; a special levy of 1-2 mill is hereby levied to re| pay Idan to build bridge across Catawba river between York and Mecklenburg counties as provided for in act of 1919. The county supervisor is heieby authorized to draw his warrant upon the county treasurer for the amounts for the purposes herein stated, if so much be necessary, for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1921: Roads and Bridges?Cross roods, $20,000: convicts and maintenance of road working organization, $19,000 : county engineer, $800 $ 39,800 Salaries?Clerk of court, $300; sheriff $1,600: deputy sheriff, $1,600; treasurer, $800 ; clerk or treasurer, 31.600: auditor. $800 ; clerk to auditor, $1,500: superintendent of education, $2,-100; attorney, $200: physician, $1,000 ; coroner. $400; two county commissioners, $500 ; clerk .to board of commissioners,- $600 ; judge of probate, $200: magistrates and. conSftlbTos; $7,000 '.237030 County Boards?Board of--'education, . $100; board of equalization, $600 700 Jail expenses, including dieting of prisoners ..... . 2,000 -* 6.000 I Jurors nnu witnesses | County home, poorhouse and poor * 5,000 Post mortem:), innuests and lunacy 500 Public buildings, including water, light und insurance 8.000 Printing, postage and stationery 2.00U Miscellaneous Contingent?Vital statis' tics; $512; telegraph and telephone, $100; sherifT. conveying prisoners, $ 100; magistrates and constables, for conveying prisoners, $100 1,400 Military Companies?Rock Hill military company, $250 ; Fort Mill military company, $250 COO Demonstration Work?Home demonstration work. $1,200 : county farm demonstration, $500 ; tension commission, $100 1,800 Interest on County Indebtedness?Interest on current loans in anticipation of collection of taxes, $875 ; interest on courthouse bonds and to sinking fund for retirement of bonds, $4,COO 5.475 Total $96,267 For ordinary county purposes the board of county commissioner* of York are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow a sum oi' money not exceedtan nno. if so much be necessary, at a rale of interest not exceeding 6 per cent, and to pledge the ordinary county tax levy to secure the sume. It shall be the duty of the county supervisor and county commissioners to purchase all implements and supplies for the chaingang and the county home, in such quantities and on such terms as will guarantee the lowest price and be most advantageous to the county. And for this purpose the county supervisor and county commissioners, in their discretion, may contract upon competitive bids each quarter with the lowest responsible bidder for all implements and supplies for the chaingang and the county home, after advertisement one time, for at least one week, in not more than two newspapers published, in the county, previous to letting such contracts: Provided, That the county supervisor and county commissioners I shall have the right to reject any and I ;ill bids. The supervisor and county commissioners are hereby requweu tu keep a book, called "File Book of Claims," and in it shall be entered all claims presented for payment. This book shall be kept so as to show: Claim number, date of filing, whom claim belongs to, nature of claim, amount of claim,' amount allowed, on what .account. The book shall be open for inspection by the grand jury and the public; and it shall be the duty cf tne supervisor, within two weeks after the first day of July and January, r^iDectively, to publish, one time in^SSfhe newspaper, published in the county, and which will give the largest publicity thereto, at a cost not exceeding $60, an itemized statement of all claims allowed during the preceding six montns, and it shall be that which is done in strict conformity to the law governing same. The county treasuer is hereby authorized to transfer any unexpended balance of the several funds on hand at the end of the (lscal year 1920, not othI erwiso appropriated, to the year 1921 to I be used for ordinary purposes. j FORT MILL MAN MASTER SHOT f ? Thomas K. Lee World Champion With RiFle and Pistol. Fort .Mill is the olcl home town ot the world's champion rifle and pistol shot and his name is Thomas K. Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Lee of Fort Mill. He left here about 12 years ago and is now located in Birmingham. Ala., as treasurer of a coal mining company. As a lad on his father's farm near Fori Mill, Mr. Lee acquired I [ City court ior eu^uguis m u. ugm. t iu> ; followed an argument over a hornet's nest. ' Evidence brought out at the hearing showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the nest was the pioperty of Darling, who said he had walked 1 miles through the woods to And it for the purpose of making a tea, which he said he used for a cough. "You are discharged," said Judge Harris to Darling. Gill, apparently displeased with the ' decision, asked: "How about me, judge?" "Oh, you're stung," replied the 1 judge. "You must cough up ten and I costs." is more rodent than pig and have been found to value their lives above the convivial compensations of liquor samples. Those who have tried their brews on the guinea pigs have found that no amount of coaxing can bring the sagacious rodents to the flowing bowl of kitchen-made drugs. They submit to the administrations of strange drugs and serums in the interests of science but anything alcoholic is abhorrent to them. Thousands of purchases were made when it was reported that guinea pigs could test the margin of safety in unsampled contraband concoctions. Now they are a drug on the^arket, ready to be doled out to hospitals and scientists for use in routine experiments. FOUGHT FOR HORNET NEST One Discharged But Other Stung $10 Worth. Elmo Gill and James Darling, Ral; eigh, N. C. have just been tried in the * ~ 1 ~ ? ~U f Mint Home Brew Makes Swine Accept Act Literally. Because guinea pigs have been found to accept the Volstead act literally and turn their furry back to alluring home brew, the little animals which are raised in Washington for test purpurposes are reported to have depreciated in value almost 100 per cent. It was the fond belief of home brew makers some time ago that if they tried their amateur productions on the guinea pig, human life ?jad digestion might be saved. The guinea pig had proven a satisfactory subject for scientific tests and according to their reasoning if the sensitive animal survived treir brew it was ripe for human consumption. If the pig died it was in a good cause, and the brewers tried again to make a liquor fit to drink by man and beast. "Pif-a i? rUe-s" hut thf> -,2-uinea variety 200 yards. "Fans can still recall how Tackhole Leo astonished- audiences at the Jefferson theater with his -.dark marksmanship, shooting objects, the size of a quarter, from his" wife's ' fingers," head, mouth and shoulders, while holding rifles -in. va-rIous ~difficulf"posl-' tions. ' ? "Lee wtrls scr ttftWWrthe': rwjar'&f ' the Birmingham Gun club at' the Alabama state fair grounds that it has become monotonous. He has held the doubles championship of Alabama for two years In succession and was runner-up one year in the singles. His longest runs with "shotguns are 137, 151 and 224. He has shot 50 and 100 straight 'over a hundred different times. AFTER GUINEA PIGS greatest living aurouna snot m. mc world." Lee, the master marksman of the century, holds 31 world's records, with pistol, and 17 world's records with rifle. Every one of Lee's records was made in official Competition. Since 1913 Lee has wc%rt ^31 national championships with rifle, ifcistol and revolver and one international title. He has won so many local, state and other matches than national^, that he 1 has last count of them. "Lee's record for shooting would fill the Congressional library. He holds the record for smallest group of shots made with rifle at 25 yards, every shot being fired inside a quarter inch ring. A half dollar covered his shots at 100 jla^ds, while a small ^envelope covered the target at 300 ytjds. He has- made possible scores at every range from 200 to 1,000 yarfls with army rifle, having made 11 consecutive possibilities at 200 yards, rapid fire. He has scored 27 bulls-eyes out of 35 shots in 52 seconds with army rifle at a local reputation as a marksman, but at thai time neither he nor his .friends thought that he would eventually become the master shot of the country. But that's what he is now, thanks to hard, consistent practice and clean living. ' .. Mr. Lee is now 32 years old. "When his father moved to town 13 years ago he had just attained his majority and was ready to strike out in. the world for himself. A course at a bus-' iness college fitted him to . accept a commercial position in Georgia and he went to that state to work. Seven or eight years ago he moved to Birmingham and has since made his home in that city. There he has acquired the reputation which has made him famous as the possessor of the most perfect trigger finger in the world. Mr. Lee has the reputation of shooting one firearm about as well as another. The rifle, pistol, revolver and shotgun?they are all alike to him. v A recent issue of the Birmingham News contains the following story ofMr. Lee's wonderful shooting ability: "Birmingham"' has one champion she never gets tired of telling tne universe about in Thomas K. Lee, the rnm0mmm Mr. W. S. wifkettoD Vn Interesting - BemlnlKences.: i# K i i P THINKS WORLD IS HOilNO BETTEl Before Civil. Wjm k... Into ii Scarce and Luxuriee "'' * * "V / M * *. *, , ? .VLly. ,-\A In the Old Day*. ; 3| *p Corri>flnondeiir.fi The Yorkville Etlonlrer {i'if" ' Hickory ./Grove,* February, vr\ cently called; upon for a speech her!Jir Mr. W.,S. WilkefsobfeU'ibfo a-;i^mtniscent strain; took'for.' a > "When I Was a Boy,""and. contended that the world is growing' "" substance he said: */.! " / In his boyhood days, there were three i-S; distinct classes of whi^aV;.^raC . .Xhe V' wealthy class?the slave own^rs-^ladi^s and gentlemen of .leisure'. '.Second/ The middle class of whites, tooindu'stribUa ' ' to associate;;with'bje;,lo^eijt'class^of whites; but Ignored anflTscomb'ed ,Tby- : the wealthy class. ThIbd/,\ Th'e'lvpry V." poor whiteis, scorned" 'an^dwpi&d both the other classes.' ,!^Caate6.: hind classes prevailed and there Tiib -'\. mingling of people as there la,today.-, v The wealthy class, were . large land- ! holders. Much.of the land .wai.taicen vg up from the government at 10 ocnts atv ]j*.''"-j acre. His grandfather's pUintitton df?' \ 58 acres, now owned by Mri Lattimdrf, was bought for, $25; JUlK ine country wua seiuau,. ea.ui ? class for itself, and the country, under, those conditions could . never 'havereached the conditions we have tod4y. ' Money was very scare. His flrst,"Jbb ; paid him 35 cents a day from'suhrlseito ^ sunset and he had to walk four miles.. . to get it. . ;J Postage in those days was ppJdfJby the receiver of the letter ^nd* wliie'n^is first letter came he 'didn't have the ~ j postage. He finally,borrowed ,the ,po4tage, but the/ letter 'waankt/wor^h' -tha~"7': postage. . '. 7 Speaking.further of the maila he siid. that the stage and. Yorkvllle to. Atlanta Grove, and would week?if it didn't rain'' T fa'had a-long bugle some..iiye..0r made of thin.pieces of would sound his >, town ao mat me ?ura^; would pet ready..;/ The, of tobacco it? cblt?S^^^rat^|j^[lt^/6rr','' $10., The olothea weit?^iibm^iWn?^d: . we're foot-paths. 'v ^*ew4 fcft'e 'horsetklc and fewer in carriages., Tjie p'nlyjc^r? rfage manufacturer lii thif. whQle' up-!,. country was B. T. Wheeler orYprkyiilej and he wouId ,only_ tunrv o'Ut 'iom^ "five or six vehicles in a-mpijih. ., . .He.gave the following.acppiiri?^ fliei. establishment of Unity* Hickory4 Grove,, as. he Hiid .re'celyed'^. from the oldest inhabitants;' A.-c'Smlia-; ny.or deer nuniers sat aroynu a drinking brandy after. I ay^&c^8ttir chase. There being ria.tsHurch' in!; the' whole country they Abe Smith, one of the land and the timber the party the nails and. tOT'l&h'bf? ttut it was specified that it church for alh dehomlriatldnS 'tirid^^S^ so continued to. this -day./^^v; AiM'' Occasionally a preachfer ^pfyld'rrd'e through and preach. :,T)^re'^a2-' one Meth' dist preacher iji.!tH^;;wj\bi^tv . York county. He preadh'j^^i^^p^j. came?sometimes ..wice "a jyear, .sonje^ j times on Sunday. Sorhetitije^ ori w?k-i days, whichever the day happened,' to come. ' "L.?^ /$$ %'. C6ngrega.tlons were . poqr. 'iimd*,!tii^r^. were no Sunday school?.on'the'1 blueback. speller .and soipqcatechism questions svere taught on .Sdhd'ay!' '.V'^r The school'houses 'were o{/-.lbgs ah^ generally built In a day. I'.tfh'ertf. wd'rfe.. no trustees, no furniturd: i^hd, 'rt*K* teachers. Teachers carried "iijk a^d pens and boarded around wUH'the pj^i trons. His first teacher wflC^ a'iir. Joe. ? - ' ? ? ? 1 - . i^opan, wno naa no peupie tuiu.uuiiviuc. His salary was 112.50 a mo'h'tk, ; Everybody had a still. andv'..-Whisky was plentiful. Preachers, ap^tea'chers drank and often the schopl^^ifltfTiaYe long recesses. Schools' gertfcfrjiltfc ran about a month?somet(nles ^a vllttle longer. . Mr. Wilkerson further brl^y'reviewed tha improvements In housing,/from the log cabin to the comfortable, honte of today. He compared the ,-ipusfer' fields with the fine coinradeahlp oif today, and noted improvements iri both manners and morals. None 'of. thesp ' good things had come except' after meeting obstacles; but letting'inemory run back something like three scqrO' i and ten years he felt that the," part ,df. the world he knew and the part he had: I lived in had grown steadily better.1 .It , had grown better because people he ' knew wanted and worked despite mahy obstacles to make it Detier. His question to the present generation was, what would they do to. further improve conditions, that they .lit " their old age might be able to make the same kind of speech he was making in his old age. . ' . ? By a vote of 30 to 14 the senate on Wednesday postponed indellnitely the bill by Senator Wightman to abolish' the South Carolina tax commission. The action of the senate .in postpone Ing the bill of the Saluda senator'.is. a mild way of killing the measure^'The. vote came after many hours of hard fighting, which began several weeks, ago and broke out anew Tuesday night. Senators Martin, Pearce and Crossonall spoke for the tax commission ahd Senators Black and Wightman for the' bill to abolish. , ...Jl ' V' *' * 1 * k ;;"Vv. 4 ' \ .